Peer-to-peer Control System for DC Microgrids

Sony CSL

We propose and implement a dc microgrid with a fully decentralized control system, using the ICT concept of network overlays and peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Decentralization not only concerns the physical systems and control logic but also the control structure which provides the network infrastructure on which Energy Management is carried out. In this study, we […]

Dynamics on Expanding Spaces: Modeling the Emergence of Novelties

Sony CSL

Novelties are part of our daily lives. We constantly adopt new technologies, conceive new ideas, meet new people, and experiment with new situations. Occasionally, we as individual, in a complicated cognitive and sometimes fortuitous process, come up with something that is not only new to us, but to our entire society so that what is […]

Bottom-up and Recursive Interconnection for Multi-layer DC Microgrids

Sony CSL

We propose a recursively scalable DC infrastructure starting off from simple DC nanogrids (subsystem) that are interconnected via a DC power bus line to form a cluster. We have conceived a non-droop based procedure to exchange power from one subsystem to another in order to balance demand/generation fluctuations within the community without requiring any central […]