Symmetry with Power Systems: Control and Optimization
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Engineering and Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 36
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the rapid integration of flexible resources—such as distributed solar photovoltaics and electric vehicle charging stations—into distribution power grids, conventional centralized control architectures are increasingly challenged by issues including high communication and computational demands, limited flexibility, and constrained scalability. These limitations further complicate the coordinated power dispatch of heterogeneous flexible resources. Given the spatiotemporal asymmetry in the deployment of distributed flexible resources within the grid, decentralized and distributed control strategies are gaining attention due to their advantages in edge computing, plug-and-play operation, and seamless expandability. In such frameworks, resources with strong similarities are managed by dedicated aggregators or agents equipped with tailored bargaining strategies and information. To enable coordination among multiple aggregators, both symmetric and asymmetric game-theoretic approaches have been widely employed. Thus, the aggregation and scheduling of distributed resources via game-theory-enhanced distributed control offer effective solutions for the optimized operation of large-scale distribution power systems.
This Special Issue invites original research papers and review articles focusing on control and optimization techniques for flexible resources in modern distribution grids, especially those addressing theoretical or practical aspects of symmetry. Applied case studies are particularly welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Symmetry/asymmetry in spatiotemporal deployment characteristics of distributed energy resources;
- Application of symmetric/asymmetric game theory for coordinated dispatching of heterogeneous aggregators;
- Distributed/decentralized control of flexible energy resources under asymmetric grid conditions;
- Advanced control strategies considering asymmetric operating conditions in power grids;
- Data fusion and state estimation techniques using multi-source measurement data with asymmetric structures;
- Asymmetric and hierarchical control architectures for coordinated operation of flexible resources integrated across different voltage levels;
- Service restoration strategies for active distribution networks under symmetric/asymmetric fault conditions.
Prof. Dr. Hui Gao
Dr. Xiao Xu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- power system aggregation
- coordinated control strategies
- decentralized control architectures
- distributed control algorithms
- flexible energy resource management
- power system optimization
- game-theoretic approaches
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