Research and Developments in the Area of Power System Security

This note gives a survey of some research activities in the Stochastic Methods
Group of the University of Liège, “Montefiore” Institute, in the area of power systems
security assessment and control, those in which the author is directly involved.
Current research activities in the field are conducting through several research
projects supported by the European Union and include those within: (a) the
EXaMINE project in which the group is involved in the research focusing transient
stability emergency control, better utilization of phasor measurements for power
system control, and application of reinforcement learning to the same problem, and
(b) OMASES project in which the group is involved in the research focusing on
preventive transient stability assessment and control as well as voltage security
assessment. A short historical overview of the research activities at the group in the
field are introduced then more details are given on the developments achieved within
mentioned projects as well as future research directions in the field of transient
stability emergency control and application of reinforcement learning methods to
power system control.