Low-inertia Power Systems & Grid-forming Inverters

@inproceedings{nokey,

title = {Interaction Energy-Based Transient Stability Framework for Multi-Grid-Forming Inverter Systems},

author = {Debjyoti Chatterjee and Bowen Yang and Brian Johnson and Gab-Su Seo },

url = {https://johnsonlab.ece.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Debjyoti_ECCE25_2GFM.pdf},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-08-21},

urldate = {2025-08-21},

booktitle = {Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition},

keywords = {inverters, modeling, systems},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{nokey,

title = {Stability analysis of multi-inverter systems with heterogeneous grid-forming dynamics},

author = {Debjyoti Chatterjee and Gab-Su Seo and Brian Johnson},

url = {https://johnsonlab.ece.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1299488.pdf},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-07-30},

urldate = {2025-07-30},

booktitle = {Power and Energy Society General Meeting},

keywords = {inverter control, inverters, modeling, systems},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{nokey,

title = {Singular-perturbation-based control design of single-phase grid-forming inverters},

author = {Weiqian Cai and Rahul Mallik and Brian Johnson},

url = {https://johnsonlab.ece.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/ECCE_Full_Paper_2024_20240731.pdf},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-10-20},

urldate = {2024-10-20},

booktitle = {Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition},

keywords = {inverter control, inverters},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{nokey,

title = {Fault ride-through for cascaded inverters using mixed grid-forming and grid-following control},

author = {Rahul Mallik and Debjyoti Chatterjee and Brian Johnson

},

url = {https://johnsonlab.ece.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/ECCE2024_final.pdf},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-10-20},

booktitle = {Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition},

keywords = {inverter control, inverters},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{nokey,

title = {Equivalent-circuit models of grid-forming IBRs for electromagnetic-transient simulations},

author = {Nathan Baeckeland and Thomas Ankner and Sairaj Dhople and Brian Johnson and Gab-Su Seo},

url = {https://johnsonlab.ece.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/88117.pdf},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-07-12},

urldate = {2024-07-12},

booktitle = {Power and Energy Society General Meeting},

journal = { Power and Energy Society General Meeting},

keywords = {inverters, modeling},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{nokey,

title = {Inverter-based emulation of single-phase air conditioner loads},

author = {Weiqian Cai and Minghui Lu and Brian Johnson},

url = {https://johnsonlab.ece.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Inverter-based_Emulation_of_Single-phase_Air_Conditioner_Loads.pdf},

doi = {10.1109/ECCE53617.2023.10362629},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-10-29},

urldate = {2023-10-29},

booktitle = {Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition},

keywords = {electromechanics, inverter control, inverters, modeling},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{nokey,

title = {Performance specifications for grid-forming technologies},

author = {Deepak Ramasubramanian and Benjamin Kroposki and Sairaj Dhople and Dominic Groß and Anderson Hoke and Wenzong Wang and Shahil Shah and Philip Hart and Gab-Su Seo and Michael Ropp and Wei Du and Vijay Vittal and Raja Ayyanar and Jack Flicker and Joseph Benzaquen and Brian Johnson and Pedro Arsuaga and Sebastian Achilles and Siddharth Pant and Rojan Bhattarai and Dustin Howard and Maozhong Gong and Deepak Divan and Aidan Tuohy},

url = {https://johnsonlab.ece.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Performance_Specifications_for_Grid-forming_Technologies.pdf},

doi = {10.1109/PESGM52003.2023.10253440},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-07-16},

booktitle = {Power and Energy Society General Meeting},

keywords = {inverter control, inverters, systems},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{nokey,

title = {A universal grid-forming inverter model and simulation-based characterization across timescales},

author = {Deepak Ramasubramanian and Evangelos Farantatos and Olaoluwapo Ajala and Sairaj Dhople and Brian Johnson},

url = {https://johnsonlab.ece.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/0257-2.pdf},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-03},

urldate = {2023-01-03},

booktitle = {Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences},

keywords = {inverters, modeling, systems},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{johnson2021generic,

title = {A generic primary-control model for grid-forming inverters: Towards interoperable operation and control},

author = {Brian Johnson and T. G. Roberts and Olaolu Ajala and Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia and Sairaj Dhople and Deepak Ramasubramanian and Aidan Tuohy and Deepak Divan and Benjamin Kroposki},

url = {https://johnsonlab.ece.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/0334.pdf},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-04},

urldate = {2022-01-04},

booktitle = {Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences},

pages = {3398-3407},

keywords = {inverter control, inverters, modeling},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{lu2021unified,

title = {Unified equivalent-circuit models for voltage-source inverters that capture averaged dynamics and power-flow solutions in distribution networks},

author = {Minghui Lu and Victor Purba and Sairaj Dhople and Brian Johnson},

url = {https://bbjohnson.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/C49_2021_Unified-Equivalent-circuit-Models-for-Voltage-source-Inverters-that-Capture.pdf},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

urldate = {2021-01-01},

booktitle = {Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences},

pages = {1--10},

keywords = {inverters, modeling},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{dutta2021grid,

title = {Grid-connected self-synchronizing cascaded H-bridge inverters with autonomous power sharing},

author = {Soham Dutta and Minghui Lu and Branko Majmunović and Rahul Mallik and Gab-Su Seo and Dragan Maksimović and Brian Johnson},

url = {https://bbjohnson.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/C48_2021_Dutta-et-al_Grid-connected-Self-synchronizing-Cascaded-H-Bridge-Inverters-with-Autonomous.pdf},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

urldate = {2021-01-01},

booktitle = {Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition},

pages = {2806--2813},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {inverters, systems},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{venkatramanan2021quantitative,

title = {Quantitative analysis of third-harmonic neutral-point current, its impacts, and mitigation in three-level NPC inverters},

author = {D Venkatramanan and Nimesh Vamanan and Brian Johnson and Sairaj Dhople},

url = {https://bbjohnson.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/C46_2021_Venkatramanan-et-al_Quantitative-Analysis-of-Third-harmonic-Neutral-point-Current-its-Impacts-and.pdf},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

urldate = {2021-01-01},

booktitle = {Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition},

pages = {3563--3570},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {inverters, modeling},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{lu2021dispatchable,

title = {Dispatchable virtual-oscillator-controlled inverters with current-limiting and MPPT capabilities},

author = {Minghui Lu and Rahul Mallik and Brian Johnson and Sairaj Dhople},

url = {https://bbjohnson.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/C45_2021_Lu-et-al_Dispatchable-Virtual-oscillator-controlled-Inverters-with-Current-limiting-and.pdf},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

urldate = {2021-01-01},

booktitle = {Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition},

pages = {3316--3323},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {inverters},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{venkatramanan2021averaged,

title = {Averaged dynamic model of three-level NPC grid-following inverter for examining neutral-point instability},

author = {D Venkatramanan and Brian Johnson and Sairaj Dhople},

url = {https://bbjohnson.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/NL_2021_Venkatramanan-et-al_Averaged-Dynamic-Model-of-Three-level-NPC-Grid-following-Inverter-for-Examining.pdf},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

urldate = {2021-01-01},

booktitle = {Workshop on Control and Modeling of Power Electronics},

pages = {1--7},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {inverters, modeling},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{dutta2020decentralized,

title = {Decentralized control of cascaded H-bridge inverters for medium-voltage grid integration},

author = {Soham Dutta and Minghui Lu and Rahul Mallik and Branko Majmunović and Satyaki Mukherjee and Gab-Su Seo and Dragan Maksimović and Brian Johnson},

url = {https://bbjohnson.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/C41_2020_Dutta-et-al_Decentralized-Control-of-Cascaded-H-Bridge-Inverters-for-Medium-Voltage-Grid.pdf},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

urldate = {2020-01-01},

booktitle = {Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics},

pages = {1--6},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {inverters, systems},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{lu2020comparison,

title = {Comparison of droop control and virtual oscillator control realized by Andronov-Hopf dynamics},

author = {Minghui Lu and Victor Purba and Sairaj Dhople and Brian Johnson},

url = {https://bbjohnson.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/C39_2020_Lu-et-al_Comparison-of-Droop-Control-and-Virtual-Oscillator-Control-Realized-by.pdf},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

urldate = {2020-01-01},

booktitle = {Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society},

pages = {4051--4056},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {inverters, modeling},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{lu2020pre,

title = {A pre-synchronization strategy for grid-forming virtual oscillator controlled inverters},

author = {Minghui Lu and Soham Dutta and Victor Purba and Sairaj Dhople and Brian Johnson},

url = {https://bbjohnson.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/C35_2020_Lu-et-al_A-Pre-synchronization-Strategy-for-Grid-forming-Virtual-Oscillator-Controlled.pdf},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

urldate = {2020-01-01},

booktitle = {Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition},

pages = {4308--4313},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {inverters},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{lu2019grid,

title = {A grid-compatible virtual oscillator controller: Analysis and design},

author = {Minghui Lu and Soham Dutta and Victor Purba and Sairaj Dhople and Brian Johnson},

url = {https://bbjohnson.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/C33_2019_Lu-et-al_A-Grid-compatible-Virtual-Oscillator-Controller.pdf},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

urldate = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition},

pages = {2643--2649},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {inverters},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{seo2019dispatchable,

title = {Dispatchable virtual oscillator control for decentralized inverter-dominated power systems: Analysis and experiments},

author = {Gab-Su Seo and Marcello Colombino and Irina Subotic and Brian Johnson and Dominic Gross and Florian Dörfler},

url = {https://bbjohnson.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/C27_2019_Seo-et-al_Dispatchable-Virtual-Oscillator-Control-for-Decentralized-Inverter-dominated.pdf},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

urldate = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {Applied Power Electronics Conference},

pages = {561--566},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {inverters},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{lu2019adaptation,

title = {Adaptation of commercial current-controlled inverters for operation with virtual oscillator control},

author = {Minghui Lu and Gab-Su Seo and Mohit Sinha and Fernando Rodriguez and Sairaj Dhople and Brian Johnson},

url = {https://bbjohnson.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/C26_2019_Lu-et-al_Adaptation-of-Commercial-Current-controlled-Inverters-for-Operation-with.pdf},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

urldate = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {Applied Power Electronics Conference},

pages = {3427--3432},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {inverters},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{sinha2018stabilizing,

title = {Stabilizing phase-balanced or phase-synchronized trajectories of Van der Pol oscillators in uniform electrical networks},

author = {Mohit Sinha and Florian Dörfler and Brian Johnson and Sairaj Dhople},

url = {https://bbjohnson.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/C24_2018_Sinha-et-al_Stabilizing-Phase-balanced-or-Phase-synchronized-Trajectories-of-Van-der-Pol.pdf},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

urldate = {2018-01-01},

booktitle = {Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing},

pages = {335--340},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {inverters, modeling},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{khan2018reduced,

title = {A reduced-order aggregated model for parallel inverter systems with virtual oscillator control},

author = {Mohammed Khan and Yashen Lin and Brian Johnson and Victor Purba and Mohit Sinha and Sairaj Dhople},

url = {https://bbjohnson.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/C22_2018_Khan-et-al_A-Reduced-order-Aggregated-Model-for-Parallel-Inverter-Systems-with-Virtual.pdf},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

urldate = {2018-01-01},

booktitle = {Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics},

pages = {1--6},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {inverters, modeling},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{achanta2018self,

title = {Self-synchronizing series-connected inverters},

author = {Prasanta Achanta and Mohit Sinha and Brian Johnson and Sairaj Dhople and Dragan Maksimović},

url = {https://bbjohnson.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/C21_2018_Achanta-et-al_Self-synchronizing-Series-connected-Inverters.pdf},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

urldate = {2018-01-01},

booktitle = {Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics},

pages = {1--6},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {inverters, modeling},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{johnson2017comparison,

title = {Comparison of virtual oscillator and droop control},

author = {Brian Johnson and Miguel Rodriguez and Mohit Sinha and Sairaj Dhople},

url = {https://bbjohnson.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/C16_2017_Johnson-et-al_Comparison-of-virtual-oscillator-and-droop-control.pdf},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

urldate = {2017-01-01},

booktitle = {Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics},

pages = {1--6},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {inverters, modeling},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{sinha2015nonlinear,

title = {Nonlinear supersets to droop control},

author = {Mohit Sinha and Sairaj Dhople and Brian Johnson and Nathan Ainsworth and Florian Dörfler},

url = {https://bbjohnson.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/C11_2015_Sinha-et-al_Nonlinear-supersets-to-droop-control.pdf},

year  = {2015},

date = {2015-01-01},

urldate = {2015-01-01},

booktitle = {Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics},

pages = {1--6},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {inverters, modeling},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{sinha2015virtual,

title = {Virtual oscillator control subsumes droop control},

author = {Mohit Sinha and Florian Dörfler and Brian Johnson and Sairaj Dhople},

url = {https://bbjohnson.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/C10_2015_Sinha-et-al_Virtual-Oscillator-Control-subsumes-droop-control.pdf},

year  = {2015},

date = {2015-01-01},

urldate = {2015-01-01},

booktitle = {American Control Conference},

pages = {2353--2358},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {inverters, modeling},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{salapaka2014viability,

title = {Viability and analysis of implementing only voltage-power droop for parallel inverter systems},

author = {Srinivasa Salapaka and Brian Johnson and Blake Lundstrom and Sangsun Kim and Scott Collyer and Murti Salapaka},

url = {https://bbjohnson.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/C9_2014_Salapaka-et-al_Viability-and-analysis-of-implementing-only-voltage-power-droop-for-parallel.pdf},

year  = {2014},

date = {2014-01-01},

urldate = {2014-01-01},

booktitle = {Conference on Decision and Control},

pages = {3246--3251},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {inverters, modeling},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Dörfler2014synchronization,

title = {Synchronization of nonlinear circuits in dynamic electrical networks},

author = {Florian Dörfler and Sairaj Dhople and Brian Johnson and Abdullah Hamadeh},

url = {https://bbjohnson.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/C8_2014_Dorfler-et-al_Synchronization-of-nonlinear-circuits-in-dynamic-electrical-networks.pdf},

year  = {2014},

date = {2014-01-01},

urldate = {2014-01-01},

booktitle = {European Control Conference},

pages = {552--557},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {inverters, modeling},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{6736685,

title = {Virtual oscillator control for voltage source inverters},

author = {Sairaj Dhople and Brian Johnson and Abdullah Hamadeh},

url = {https://bbjohnson.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/C7_2013_Dhople-et-al_Virtual-Oscillator-Control-for-voltage-source-inverters.pdf},

doi = {10.1109/Allerton.2013.6736685},

year  = {2013},

date = {2013-01-01},

urldate = {2013-01-01},

booktitle = {Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing},

pages = {1359-1363},

keywords = {inverters, modeling},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{5744713,

title = {Photovoltaic AC module composed of a very large number of interleaved inverters},

author = {Brian Johnson and Philip Krein and Patrick Chapman},

url = {https://bbjohnson.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/C3_2011_Johnson-et-al_Photovoltaic-AC-module-composed-of-a-very-large-number-of-interleaved-inverters.pdf},

doi = {10.1109/APEC.2011.5744713},

year  = {2011},

date = {2011-01-01},

urldate = {2011-01-01},

booktitle = {Applied Power Electronics Conference},

pages = {976-981},

keywords = {inverters, systems},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}