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Prof. Dr. Petr Korba

Prof. Dr. Petr Korba

Prof. Dr. Petr Korba

ZHAW School of Engineering
IEFE Energiespeicher und -netze
Technikumstrasse 9
8400 Winterthur

+41 (0) 58 934 74 69
petr.korba@zhaw.ch

Arbeit an der ZHAW

Tätigkeit

  • Stv. Institutsleitung IEFE Institut für Energiesysteme
  • Schwerpunktleitung Energiespeicher und -netze
  • Dozent und Leiter der Forschungsgruppe Elektrische Energiesysteme und Smart-Grids

Lehrtätigkeit in der Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Arbeits- und Forschungsschwerpunkte

Elektrische Energietechnik, Regelungstechnik, Netzdynamik, Integration von dezentralen (erneuerbaren) Energiequellen und Speichern, Weitbereichsüberwachung und -regelung, intelligente Leittechnik für Verteilnetze, Künstliche Intelligenz und Big Data Analytics

Berufserfahrung

  • Institut für Energiesysteme und Fluid Engineering (IEFE), Elektrische Energiesysteme und Smart Grids
    Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
    05 / 2012 - heute
  • Dozent, Institut für Robotik & Intelligente Systeme (IRIS).
    ETH Zürich, D-MAVT
    01 / 2008 - 12 / 2022
  • Principal Scientist
    Forschungszentrum, ABB Schweiz AG, Baden-Dättwil
    09 / 2002 - 04 / 2012
  • Senior Development Engineer
    ABB Schweiz AG, Power Plant Automation, Baden
    02 / 2001 - 08 / 2002
  • Postdoc, Lecturer
    University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology (UMIST), Control Systems Centre, Grossbritannien
    01 / 2000 - 01 / 2001
  • Consultant
    GCI Management GmbH, Gesellschaft für Consulting und Implementierung, Wien
    06 / 1995 - 06 / 1996

Ausbildung

  • Promotion / Elektrotechnik, Mess- und Regelungstechnik
    Universität Duisburg, Deutschland
    02 / 1996 - 12 / 1999
  • Gastwissenschaftler / Dept. of Information and System Technology, Control Laboratory
    Delft University of Technology, Niederlande
    08 / 1998 - 06 / 1999
  • Dipl. Ing. Elektrotechnik / Informatik und Kybernetik
    TU Prag, Tschechoslowakei
    01 / 1990 - 06 / 1995
  • Diplomarbeit / Robotik
    TU Wien, Österreich
    01 / 1994 - 12 / 1994

Mitglied in Netzwerken

Auszeichnungen

Outstanding Engineer Award 2022
IEEE Power & Energy Society Switzerland
12 / 2022

Projekte

Publikationen

Beiträge in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift, peer-reviewed
Bücher und Monographien, peer-reviewed
Buchbeiträge, peer-reviewed
Konferenzbeiträge, peer-reviewed
Weitere Publikationen
Mündliche Konferenzbeiträge und Abstracts

Publikationen vor Tätigkeit an der ZHAW

(Auswahl von Publikationen und Patenten)

Zeitschriften

P. Korba, K. Uhlen, Wide-Area Monitoring of Electromechanical Oscillations in the NORDIC Power System: a Practical Experience, IET Proceedings on Generation, Transmission & Generation, Special issue on wide-area monitoring, protection & control, Vol. 4, Nr. 10, pp. 1115-1126, 2010.

N. R. Chaudhuri, A. Domahidi, B. Chaudhuri, R. Majumder, P. Korba S. Ray, K. Uhlen, Wide-Area Power Oscillation Damping Control in Nordic Equivalent System, IET Proceedings on Generation, Transmission & Generation, Special issue on wide-area monitoring, protection & control, Vol. 4, Nr. 10, pp. 1139-1150, 2010.

M. Barnes, P. Korba, Smart Grids: Microgrid Systems, Editorial for a special issue of International Journal on Automation and Soft Computing (AutoSoft), pp. 195-199, vol. 16, Nr. 2., 2009.

A. Oudalov, A. Fidigatti, P. Korba, Challenges in Protection of Microgrid Systems, International Journal on Automation and Soft Computing (AutoSoft), Special Issue on Smart grids: Microgrid Systems, pp. 213-224, vol. 16, Nr. 2., 2009.

A. Domahidi, B. Chaudhuri, P. Korba, R. Majumder, T. Green, Self-tuning FACTS Controllers for Power Oscillation Damping: A Case Study in Real-Time, IET Proceedings, Generation Transmission & Distribution, vol.3, nr.12, pp.1079-1089, 2009.

M. Zima, W. Sattinger, P. Korba, M. Larsson, Online-Überwachung der Europäischen Netzpendelverhalten, Electroswiss Bulletin SEV, no. 9, pp. 15-19, 2007.

P. Korba, E. Scholtz, A.Leirbukt, K. Uhlen, Combining forces to provide grid stability ABB Review, ISSN 1013-3119, pp. 34-38, no. 3, 2007.

P. Korba, Real-Time Monitoring of Electromechanical Oscillations in Power Systems, IEE Proceedings, Generation Transmission and Distribution, vol. 1, pp. 80-88, January 2007.

A. Zolotas, B. Chaudhuri, I. M. Jaimoukha, P. Korba. A study on LQG/LTR control for damping inter-area oscillations in power systems, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 151-160, January 2007.

P. Korba, Intelligent Automation of Power Systems, Editorial for International Journal on Automation and Soft Computing (AutoSoft), Special Issue on Applications in Power Systems, vol. 12, nr. 1, pp. 1-3, January 2006.

R. Majumder, B. C. Pal, C. Dufour, P. Korba, Design and real-time implementation of robust FACTS controller for damping inter-area oscillation, IEEE Trans. on Power Systems, vol. 21, nr. 2, pp. 809-816, May 2006.

B. Chaudhuri, P. Korba and B. C. Pal, Design of damping controllers through simultaneous stabilization technique, International Journal on Automation and Soft Computing (AutoSoft), Special Issue on Applications in Power Systems, vol. 12, nr. 1, pp. 41-50, January 2006.

M. Larsson and P. Korba. Benchmark Model for Hybrid System Design based on s Small-Scale Power System Model. International Journal on Automation and Soft Computing (AutoSoft), Special Issue on Applications in Power Systems, vol. 12, nr. 1, pp. 3-8, January 2006.

R. Sadikovic, G. Andersson and P. Korba. Damping Controller Design for Power System Oscillations. International Journal on Automation and Soft Computing (AutoSoft), Special Issue on Applications in Power Systems, vol. 12, nr. 1, pp. 51-62, January 2006.

A. Oudalov, P. Korba, R. Cherkaoui and A. J. Germond. Fuzzy Gain Scheduling Technique for Power Flow Control. Int. J. Computer Applications in Technology Vol. 27, No. 2/3, pp 119-132, 2006.

A.Oudalov, P.Korba, R.Cherkaoui. Flexible Power Flow Control in Electric Grids. ICGST International Journal on Automatic Control and System Engineering, vol. 5, nr. 3, 2005.

P. Korba, M. Larsson, A. Oudalov and O. Preiss, Towards the Future of Power System Control, ABB Review, ISSN 1013-3119, no. 2, pp. 35-38, 2005.

M. Zima, M. Larsson, P. Korba, C. Rehtanz and G. Andersson. Design Aspects for Wide Area Monitoring and Control Systems, In Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 93, no. 5, pp. 980-996, May 2005.

P. Korba, R. Babuska, H.B. Verbruggen and P.M. Frank. Fuzzy Gain Scheduling: Controller and Observer Design based on Lyapunov Method and Convex Optimization Techniques. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 285-298, 2003.

H. Werner, P. Korba and T.S. Yang. Robust Tuning of Power System Stabilizers Using LMI-Techniques. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 147-152, 2003.


Bücher und Monographien

P. Korba. A Gain-Scheduling Approach to Model-Based Fuzzy Control, Springer VDI Verlag, Düsseldorf, 2000, ISBN 3-18-383708-0 (Fortschr.-Ber. VDI 8/837).

P. Korba, I. A. Hiskens, Operation and Control of Electrical Power Systems (Chapter 16 in System of Systems Engineering – Innovations for the 21st Century, ISBN 978-0-470-19590-1, Wiley Publishers, 2009.


Tagungsbände

A. Timbus, P. Korba, A. Vilhunen, G. Pepe, Simplified model of wind turbines using Doubly-Fed Induction Generator, 10th International Wind Integration Workshop, October 23-28, Aarhus, Denmark, 2011.

F.R. Segundo Sevilla, I. Jaimoukha, B. Chaudhuri, P. Korba, Fault-Tolerant Wide-Area Control of Power Systems, IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, July 24-28, Detroit, Michigan/USA, 2011.

A. Azhouri. S. Gaulocher, P. Korba, Office Smart Grid: An Automatic Energy Management System for Buildings based on Model Predictive Control, International Conference on Complex Systems (COSY 2011), September 16-20, Ohrid, Macedonia.

P. Korba, V. Knazkins, M. Larsson, Extended Power System Stabilizer with Synchronized Phasor measurement, 17th Power System Computation Conference, August 22-26, Stockholm, Sweden, 2011.

R.F. Segundo, B. Chaudhuri, I. Jaimokha, P. Korba, Fault-tolerant Wide-area Control of Power Systems, IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, July 25-29, Minneapolis/USA, 2010.

N. R. Chaudhuri, A. Domahidi, B. Chaudhuri, R. Majumder, P. Korba S. Ray, K. Uhlen, Power Oscillation Damping Control Using Wide-Area Signals: A Case Study on Nordic Equivalent System, IEEE PES T&D Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, April 20-22, 2010.

P. Korba, Monitoring and Model Estimation for Control of Electric Power Systems, IFAC DECOM 09: Automation and Infrastructure, September 26-29, Ohrid, Macedonia, 2009.

D. S. Laila, M. Larsson, B. C. Pal, P. Korba, Nonlinear Damping Computation and Envelop using Hilbert Transform and its Application to Power Systems Wide-Area Monitoring, IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, Calgary/Canada, July 26-31, 2009.

E. Johansson, K. Uhlen, A. B. Leirbukt, P. Korba, J. O. Gjerde, L. K. Vormedal, Coordinating Power Oscillation Damping Control using Wide Area Measurements, IEEE PSCE 2009, Seattle, March 15-18, 2009.

A. B. Leirbukt, Ø. Breidablik, J. O. Gjerde, P. Korba, K. Uhlen, and L.K. Vormedal, Deployment of SCADA Integrated Wide Area Monitoring Systems, IEEE Power Engineering Society T&D Latin America Conference and Exposition, Bogota, Colombia, August 13-15, 2008.

J. Turunen, M. Larsson, P. Korba, J. Jyrinsalo, L. Haarla, Experiences and Future Plans in Monitoring the Inter-area Power Oscillation Damping, IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, July 20-24, 2008.

K. Uhlen, J.-O. Gjerde, O. Breidablik, A.B. Leirbukt, P. Korba, Monitoring amplitude, frequency and damping of power system oscillations with PMU measurements, IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, July 20-24, 2008.

A.B. Leirbukt, P. Korba, J.-O. Gjerde, O. Breidablik, K. Uhlen, Statnett’s Wide-Area Monitoring System, Transmission & Distribution Europe, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 11-13, 2008.

P. Korba, F. R. Segundo, B. Chaudhuri, Advanced Tuning of POD Controllers for Electric Power Systems using FACTS Devices, 17th IFAC World Congress 2008, Soul, Korea, July 6-11, 2008.

E. Scholtz, M. Larsson, P. Korba, Real-time Parameter Estimation of Dynamic Power System Models using Multiple Observers, PowerTech, Lausanne, Switzerland, paper 533, July 1-5, 2007.

P. Korba, M. Larsson, R. Sadikovic, G. Andersson, B. Chaudhuri, B. Pal, R. Majumder, Towards Real-Time Implementation of Adaptive Controllers for FACTS Devices, IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, Tampa/Florida, June 28, 2007.

M. Larsson, P. Korba, M. Zima, Implementation and Applications of Wide-Area Monitoring Systems, IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, Tampa/Florida, June 28, 2007.

R. Majumder, B.C. Pal, B. Chaudhuri, P. Korba, Design and Real-Time Implementation of LMI based Robust Damping Controllers for Power Systems, IEEE Conference on Systems Engineering, San Antonio/TX, April. 16-18, 2007.

A.C. Zolotas, P. Korba, B. Chaudhuri, I.M. Jaimoukha, H2-optimal LMI-based Robust Control for Damping Oscillations in Power Systems, IEEE Conference on Systems Engineering, San Antonio/TX, April. 16-18, 2007.

A. B. Leirbukt, P. Korba, J.O. Gjerde, K. Uhlen, L. K. Vormedal, L. Warland, Wide Area Monitoring Experiences in Norway, Power Systems Conference & Exposition (PCSE), Atlanta, Oct. – Nov 1, 2006.

R. Sadikovic, P. Korba, G. Andersson, Optimal Location of FACTS Devices for Multiple Control Objectives, Symposium of Specialist in Electric Operational and Expansion Planning (X SEPOPE), Florianopolis, Brasil, May 21-25, 2006.

P. Korba, Fast Parameter Estimation for Power System Protection, VIII IEEE Symposium on Power System Protection (SIPSEP), Monterrey, Mexico, pp. 1-6, May 21-26, 2006.

R. Sadikovic, P. Korba, G. Andersson, Selft-tuning Controller for Damping of Power System Oscillations using FACTS, IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, Montreal, Canada, June 18-22, 2006.

A. Oudalov and P. Korba, Coordinated Power Flow Control Using FACTS Devices, 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, July 4-8, 2005.

R. Sadikovic, P. Korba and G. Andersson, Application of FACTS Devices for Damping of Power System Oscilations, PowerTech, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 27-30, 2005.

A. Ghosh, R. Majumder, B. C. Pal and P. Korba "A state-space based MIMO identification method for wide area power system”, IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, San Francisko, June 2005.

M. Noroozian, P. Halvarson, C. Rehtanz, P. Korba, O. Preiss, B. Pal, B. Chaudhuri and T. Green, Incorporating New Development in Control Theory and Wide-Area Measurement in SVC Function for Improving Power System Performance, The 15th Conference on Electric Power Supply Industry (CEPSI 2004), Shanghai, China, October 2004.

P. Korba, M. Larsson. An ABB Benchmark Problem for Power Transmission Control (ISIAC-004), In Proceedings of WAC 2004, vol.15, pp.455-460, ISBN 1-889335-22-3, World Automation Congress, Seville, Spain, June 28 - July 1, 2004.

R. Sadikovic, G. Andersson and P. Korba, Power Flow Control Strategy for FACTS Device (ISIAC-009), In Proceedings of WAC 2004, vol.15, pp.31-36, ISBN 1-889335-22-3, World Automation Congress, Seville, Spain, June 28 - July 1, 2004.

B. Chaudhuri, P. Korba and B. C. Pal, Damping controller design through simultaneous stabilization technique (ISIAC-005), In Proceedings of WAC 2004, vol.15, pp.13-18, ISBN 1-889335-22-3, World Automation Congress, Seville, Spain, June 28 - July 1, 2004.

J. Bertsch, C. Carnal, P. Korba, L. Broski, W. Sattinger. Wide Area Monitoring Systems - Experiences and Benefits, Western Power Delivery Automation Conference, Spokane, Washington, April 2004.

P. Korba, M. Larsson, C. Rehtanz. Detection of Oscillations in Power Systems using Kalman Filtering Techniques. In Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Control Applications, vol. 1, pp. 183-188, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2003.

M. Zima, P. Korba, G. Andersson. Power Systems Emergency Control Approach Using Trajectory Sensitivities. In Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Control Applications, vol. 1, pp. 189-194, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2003.

P. Korba, H. Werner. Counter-Example to ad hoc Off-Equilibrium Linearization Methods in Gain-Scheduling. In Proc. of the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), vol. 2, pp. 1342-1347, Orlando/FL, USA, December 2001.

P. Korba, P.M. Frank. High-Performance Gain-Scheduling Controllers. In 35. Regelungs-technisches Kolloquium, Boppard, Germany, February 2001 (in German).

P. Korba, H. Werner, P.M. Frank. A LMI-based fuzzy gain-scheduling for the TORA benchmark nonlinear control problem. In J. Maciejovski, editor, Control 2000, Cambridge, UK, September 2000.

P. Korba, P.M. Frank. An applied optimization-based gain-scheduled fuzzy control. In Proc. of the American Control Conference ACC2000, pages 3383–3387, Chicago, USA, June 2000 (Best Paper Award).

P. Korba, P.M. Frank. A model-based fuzzy control: LMI-based approach. In 9. Fuzzy Control Workshop des GMA-FA 5.22, Forschungsbericht Nr.499, ISSN 0941-4169, pages 211–225, Dortmund, Germany, November 1999.

H.-G. Schulz, P. Korba, L. Isopescu. The European Graduate College, an International PhD-Program: Introduction and an Example. In P. Arato, editor, INTCOM’99, Symposium on Intelligent systems in control and measurement, Budapest, Hungary, October 1999.

P. Korba, P.M. Frank. Controller Design for a Class of Nonlinear Systems Based on the Fuzzy Takagi-Sugeno Model. In 7. Fuzzy Control Workshop des GMA-UA, Forschungsbericht Nr.397, ISSN 0941-4169, pages 80–92, Dortmund, Germany, 07.-09. November 1997.

P. Korba, P.M. Frank. Fuzzy Control of Non-Linear Systems Using Takagi-Sugeno Model. In Symposium on System Modelling, Diagnosis and Fuzzy Logic and Control, Budapest, Hungary, May 1997.


Patente
(world-wide over 60 granted patents and 110 patent applications)
(major invention disclosures/patent families listed below: Title; Publication number; Priority numbers)

IMPROVED CONTROL OF A POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM;
MX2011013103 (A); WO2009EP57248 20090611

TIME DELAY COMPENSATION IN POWER SYSTEM CONTROL;
US8497602 (B2) US2011126038 (A1); EP20080156785 20080523 WO2009EP55974 20090518

TUNING A POWER OSCILLATION DAMPING UNIT;
WO2011061153 (A3) WO2011061153 (A2); EP20090176283 20091118

DISTRICT HEAT PREDICTION;
WO2011045184 (A1); EP20090173228 20091016

FAULT TOLERANT DAMPING OF ELECTROMECHANICAL OSCILLATIONS IN POWER SYSTEMS;
WO2011033044 (A2) WO2011033044 (A3); EP20090170800 20090921

DAMPING ELECTROMAGNETIC OSCILLATIONS IN POWER SYSTEMS;
US8022575 (B2) US2010023179 (A1); US20090560824 20090916 WO2008EP53713 20080328
US20070908595P 20070328

DETERMINATION AND USE OF POWER SYSTEM SENSITIVITIES;
US8170723 (B2) US2010094477 (A1); EP20060405422 20061005 WO2007EP60412 20071002

PARAMETER ESTIMATION FOR AND USE OF A THERMAL MODEL OF A POWER LINE;
US2009216472 (A1); EP20060405340 20060811 WO2007EP57548 20070723

CONVERTER CONTROL UNIT;
US7973427 (B2) US2009079267 (A1); EP20060405090 20060302 WO2007CH00106 20070302

Initializing an estimation of dynamic model parameters;
US2008281437 (A1) US7912589 (B2); EP20050405614 20051031 WO2006CH00608 20061031

Damping electromechanical oscillations in power systems;
US8019484 (B2) US2008177425 (A1); EP20050405408 20050624 WO2006CH00308 20060608

DAMPING ELECTROMECHANICAL OSCILLATIONS IN POWER SYSTEMS;
NO20076290 (A); EP20050405408 20050624 US20050688393P 20050608 US20050697361P
20050708 WO2006CH00308 20060608

DETECTING FAULTS IN POWER SYSTEMS;
ES2333381 (T3); US20060801435P 20060519

Parameter estimation for and use of a thermal model of a power line;
US2007038396 (A1); WO2002CH00682 20021211 EP20010811254 20011221 US20060503164
20060814 US20050499701 20050503

DAMPING ELECTROMECHANICAL OSCILLATIONS IN POWER SYSTEMS;
EP1889348 (A2); WO2006CH00308 20060608 US20050688393P 20050608 EP20050405408
20050624 US20050697361P 20050708 EP20060741633 20060608
CN101194404 (A) CN101194404 (B); WO2006CH00308 20060608 EP20050405408 20050624
US20050688393P 20050608 US20050697361P 20050708

Method of forecasting of pollutant emissions of combustion processes;
EP1693558 (A1); EP20050405194 20050216

Detecting electromechanical oscillations in power systems
US7149637 (B2) US2005187726 (A1); EP20030405450 20030621