[IES DAY – WiE Webinar] AI driven modeling & control of future power converter dominated grids
Thursday 13 November 2025 at 3:00 PM CET, 9:00 AM EDT
By Qianwen Xu (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
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Abstract:
As we transition towards a climate-neutral society, future power systems will have high shares of renewable energy sources (RESs). As power electronic converters serve as interfaces of RESs, future power systems will be power converter dominated grids. However, high penetration of power converters bring new converter driven stability issues, and RESs bring power balance and security challenges. This talk will explore how AI helps to address these challenges. First, we develop transfer learning based methods to achieve fast online modeling of converter interfaced assets under wide operating points. Based on it, we develop AI driven stability evaluation for online stability evaluation of converter-grid interaction system. To manage large scale grids with numerous converter interfaced RESs, we develop safe deep reinforcement learning for grid optimization with 100% safety. For local converter control, we also develop safe reinforcement learning for autonomous control.
Presenter’s bio:
Qianwen Xu is an Associate Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. She is the director of Intelligent Sustainable Grid (ISG) Lab @ KTH, and co-director of Dig-it Lab. She received the B.Sc. degree from Tianjin University, China, in 2014, and PhD degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2018, both in electrical power engineering. Her research focuses on advanced control and artificial intelligence application of power converter dominated grids and microgrids. She is PI for numerous projects from Swedish Research Council (VR Starting Grant), Swedish Energy Agency, Sweden’s Innovation Agency, EU Horizon, Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP), STINT, C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute, Digital Futures, etc. She is Chair in IEEE Power and Energy Society & Power Electronics Society, Sweden, and Vice Chair of IEEE Power Electronics Society Technical Committee (TC) 12- Energy Access and Off-Grid Systems. She serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics. She received IEEE J. David Irwin Early Career Award 2025, the 1st place winner of Nordic Energy Challenge 2022, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) 100 list in 2023 and 2024, Humboldt Research Fellowship 2019, Excellent Doctorate Research Work at NTU 2019, etc.