Distributed Control and Optimization of Networked Microgrids

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Network-Based Consensus of Multi-Agent Systems.- Chapter 3. Sampled-Data-Based Event-Triggered Consensus of Multi-Agent Systems.- Chapter 4. Distributed Event-triggered Secondary Control for Islanded Microgrids.- Chapter 5. Distributed Finite-Time Secondary Control for Islanded Microgrids.- Chapter 6. Distributed Resilient Finite-Time Secondary Control for Heterogeneous BESSs.- Chapter 7. Distributed Optimal Control of DC Microgrids with Communication Delays.- Chapter 8. ibuted Energy Management for Smart Grids.- Index.

Professor Lei Ding received the B.Sc. degree in Automation, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Control Theory and Control Engineering from the Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, China, in 2007, 2009, and 2014, respectively. From 2010 to 2012, he was a Visiting Ph.D. Student sponsored by China Scholarship Council at the Centre for Intelligent and Networked Systems, Central Queensland University, Australia. From 2015 to 2016, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at Western Sydney University, Australia. From 2016 to 2017, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at Wayne State University, USA. From 2017 to 2019, he worked as a Research Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. He is currently a Full Professor at the Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications Nanjing, China. 
Professor Ding was the recipient of The 2021 IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica Norbert Wiener Review Award, The 2020 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Outstanding Paper Award, and The 2019 IEEE SMC Society Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award. He was awarded as Jiangsu Specially appointed Professor by Jiangsu Education Department, China, and the Dingxin Scholar by Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China. He is an Early Career Advisory Board Member of Control Engineering Practice and IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica. He served as a Guest Editor of Control Engineering Practice and IEEE Transactions on System, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, and Information Sciences. He is the Senior Member of IEEE.
Professor Qing-Long Han is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Quality) and a Distinguished Professor at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. He held various academic and management positions at Griffith University and Central Queensland University, Australia. He received the Ph.D. degree in Control Engineering from East China University of Science and Technology in 1997. His research interests include networked