Basic research

Cooperative Distributed Home Energy Management Systems
The goal of this project is to develop a cooperative distributed Home Energy Management System (HEMS) for 1) a single house, and 2) aggregated houses.
Navid Rahbari Asr’s work on CoDES featured in Technician
Ph.D. candidate Navid Rahbari Asr's work on Cooperative Distributed Energy Scheduling (CoDES) featured on TECHNICIAN, the official student newspaper of NC State University. Read the full story here: Researchers zap away control center
Potential PhD Position in ADAC Lab in 2015
Potential PhD positions are available for highly motivated students with Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and background in Systems and Control.

Big Data Framework for Electric Vehicle Range Estimation
Project Description The amount of data collected in Electric Vehicles has been growing fast because we have many more sensors, higher bandwidth communication systems, and cheaper memory to monitor and measure real-time driving range related data and store the data on...

Distributed Intelligent Energy Management for Smart Microgrids
With the increasing number of controllable distributed energy resources and responsive demands integrated into the power system, the control and management of these resources will become a challenge. This project focuses on utilizing distributed control concept to economically and intelligently manage these energy resources and demands to improve the power quality, maximize the benefit of the unit owners while ensuring their privacy.
Intelligent Space (iSpace)
Adaptive Battery Management System Testbed, Summer 2012
About the Project Students built a fast-prototyping experimental platform for future battery tests. By implementing the battery monitoring algorithms on this PHEV testbed, the algorithms can be evaluated and optimized and thus make PHEV batteries more reliable....
Battery Monitoring System

Distributed Cooperative Performance Optimization for Large-scale PHEV/PEV Charging
Designing efficient demand management policies for charging Plug-in Hybrid Electrical Vehicles (PHEVs) and Plug-in Electrical Vehicles (PEVs) is becoming a vital issue as increasing numbers of these vehicles are being introduced to the power grid. Since these...
AIS Gene Library Based Real-Time Resource Allocation on Time-Sensitive Large-Scale Multi-Rate Systems
When looking forward towards Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), driver warning systems are an integral part of an ITS. There is a need for warning systems that can integrate the information that is currently available in the vehicles with the information about...