Saif Ahmad

CNRS Postdoc, LIS Lab, UMR 7020 CNRS

Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France.

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, IIT Patna, India.

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Research Interests

I am currently working on exploiting the flexibility potential of Dynamic Virtual Power Plants (DVPPs) for Fast Frequency Response (FFR) in AC grids via distributed control and optimization algorithms. The focus is on estimating the DVPP parameters to enable rapid response from inverter-based resources (IBR) and coordinating these resources via local interaction among neighboring DVPPs to balance any mismatch in required and actual IBR power output. I am specifically interested in the following interrelated research areas:

Energy management for a network of distributed energy sources and storage
Data-driven modeling and forecasting for renewables and load
Distributed control and optimization under communication constraints
Robust control of interconnected power electronic converters via hybrid disturbance estimation
Robust hybrid control algorithms for power electronic converters

Publications

Journals

Ahmad, S., Pitanga, R.P.C., Kergus, P., Kader, Z., Caux, S. 2024. Estimation-based Robust Switching Control of a DC-DC Boost Converter, IEEE Transactions on Industry Application, accepted
Ahmad, S. and Ahmed H., 2023. Robust Intrusion Detection for Resilience Enhancement of Industrial Control Systems: An Extended State Observer Approach, IEEE Transactions on Industry Application, doi: 10.1109/TIA.2023.3305361.
Ahmad, S., Abdulraheem, K.K., Tolokonsky, A.O. and Ahmed, H., 2023. Active disturbance rejection control of pressurized water reactor, Annals of Nuclear Energy, 189, p.109845, doi: 10.1016/j.anucene.2023.109845.
Ahmad, S. and Ali, A., 2021. On Active Disturbance Rejection Control in Presence of Measurement Noise, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 69(11), pp. 11600-11610, doi: 10.1109/TIE.2021.3121754.
Ahmad, S. and Ali, A., 2021. Unified Disturbance Estimation Based Control and Equivalence with IMC and PID: Case Study on a DC-DC Boost Converter, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 68(6), pp. 5122-5132, doi: 10.1109/TIE.2020.2987269.
Ahmad, S. and Ali, A., 2019. Active disturbance rejection control of DC–DC boost converter: a review with modifications for improved performance, IET Power Electronics, 12(8), pp.20952107, doi: 10.1049/iet-pel.2018.5767.

Conferences

Ahmad, S., Baltussen, J., Kergus, P., Kader, Z., Caux, S. "A Two-Layers Predictive Algorithm for Workplace EV Charging," accepted in 2023 Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON), doi: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.08311.
Ahmad, S., Pitanga, R.P.C., Kergus, P., Kader, Z., Caux, S. "Robust Switching Control of DC-DC Boost Converter for EV charging Stations", accepted in 2023 IEEE Texas power and energy conference, doi: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2212.03158
Ahmad, S. and Ahmed, H., 2022, April. "Robust Intrusion Detection for Resilience Enhancement of Industrial Control Systems: An Extended State Observer Approach". In 2022 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC) (pp. 1-6), doi: 10.1109/TPEC54980.2022.9750751
Ahmad, S., Abdulraheem, K.K., Tolokonsky, A.O. and Ahmed, H., 2022, June. "Active Disturbance Rejection Control of Nuclear Pressurized Water Reactor for Power Generation". In 2022 IEEE 4th Global Power, Energy and Communication Conference (GPECOM) (pp. 372-377), doi: 10.1109/GPECOM55404.2022.9815709
Ahmad, S., Deo, B. and Ali, A., "Modified Active Disturbance Rejection Control for Improved Performance," 2019 Sixth Indian Control Conference (ICC), Hyderabad, India, 2019, pp. 496-501, doi: 10.1109/ICC47138.2019.9123202 .