Dr. Miguel Ramirez Gonzalez

Work at ZHAW

Focus

Electric power systems, control systems, large-scale wind and solar PV energy sources, BESS, HVDC links, FACTS devices, computational intelligence, machine learning techniques.

Network

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7269-7463

Projects

• Swiss-Latvian Partnership in Applied Research in the areas of ICT and Smart Energy / Co-project leader / ongoing
• Measurement and quantification of inertia on electrical power systems to support integration of renewables / Deputy project leader / ongoing
• Expansion of the initial Dynamic Model of CE with the Nordic power system and implementation on OPAL-RT's ePHASORsim / Project leader / completed
• New Interconnection Perspectives for Electrical Energy Exchange between Europe and North Africa / Team member / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Ramirez Gonzalez, M., Segundo Sevilla, F. R., & Korba, P. (2026). Continuous real-time inertia estimation in power systems using ARMAX, ARX, and OE models. Energy Reports, 15(109330). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2026.109330
• Benasla, M., Berkani, A., Bouchenafa, I., Allaoui, T., Korba, P., Segundo Sevilla, F. R., & Ramirez Gonzalez, M. (2026). Robust input/output signal selection for WADCs : comparing independent and parallel operation with local PSSs. Energies, 19(4), 954. https://doi.org/10.3390/en19040954
• Chibani, H., Laribi, S., Benasla, M., Allaoui, T., Korba, P., Segundo Sevilla, F. R., & Ramirez Gonzalez, M. (2025). ANN vs. traditional machine learning models : a comparative study on open switch fault diagnosis in VSIs for solar pumping systems. Energy Reports, 14, 2464–2478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2025.09.031
• Barrueto, A., Fuentes, C., Chavez, H., Barbosa, K., & Ramirez Gonzalez, M. (2025). Structure-constrained output feedback synthetic inertia decentralized control for two area power system. International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, 173(111440). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijepes.2025.111440
• Sanchez-Ocampo, A., Arrieta Paternina, M. R., Ramirez, J. M., Fernandes, L. L., Zamora-Mendez, A., Korba, P., & Ramirez Gonzalez, M. (2025). A hybrid framework for assessing regional inertia estimation in bulk power systems using COI-driven spectral clustering. International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, 170(110929). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijepes.2025.110929
• Mejia-Ruiz, G. E., Arrieta Paternina, M. R., Ramirez Gonzalez, M., Segundo Sevilla, F. R., & Korba, P. (2023). Real-time co-simulation of transmission and distribution networks integrated with distributed energy resources for frequency and voltage support. Applied Energy, 347(121046). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.121046
• Ramirez Gonzalez, M., Segundo Sevilla, F. R., Korba, P., & Castellanos-Bustamante, R. (2022). Convolutional neural nets with hyperparameter optimization and feature importance for power system static security assessment. Electric Power Systems Research, 211(108203). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsr.2022.108203
• Kellermüller, S., Obusevs, A., Ramirez Gonzalez, M., & Korba, P. (2022). Digital twin development of a dynamic hardware emulator. Energies, 15(13), 4547. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15134547
• Segundo Sevilla, F. R., Liu, Y., Barocio, E., Korba, P., & Ramirez, M. (2021). State-of-the-art of data collection, analytics, and future needs of transmission utilities worldwide to account for the continuous growth of sensing data. International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, 137(107772). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijepes.2021.107772

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Ramirez Gonzalez, M., Segundo Sevilla, F. R., & Korba, P. (2025). Frequency nadir and RoCOF prediction using predisturbance data and artificial neural networks. 2025 IEEE International Conference on Energy Technologies for Future Grids (ETFG). https://doi.org/10.1109/etfg61999.2025.11402225
• Ramirez Gonzalez, M., Obusevs, A., Segundo Sevilla, F. R., & Korba, P. (2025, October 23). Frequency stability impact of cloud-aggregated assets and large power imbalances in CE. 2025 IEEE 66th International Scientific Conference on Power and Electrical Engineering of Riga Technical University (RTUCON). https://doi.org/10.1109/rtucon67996.2025.11415038
• Ramirez Gonzalez, M., Obusevs, A., Sanchez-Acevedo, S., Segundo Sevilla, F. R., & Korba, P. (2025, October 6). Integrating the dynamic models of CE and Nordic power grids under hybrid real-time co-simulation. 2025 IEEE Kiel PowerTech. https://doi.org/10.1109/powertech59965.2025.11180599
• Ramirez Gonzalez, M., Segundo Sevilla, F. R., & Korba, P. (2024). Power system transient stability prediction with a CNN trained with steady-state input variables [Conference paper]. 2024 8th International Conference on Power and Energy Engineering (ICPEE), 94–98. https://doi.org/10.1109/icpee64457.2024.10949969
• Ramirez Gonzalez, M., Obusevs, A., Sanchez Acevedo, S., Segundo Sevilla, F. R., & Korba, P. (2024). Expanding the initial dynamic model of CE with the Nordic power system and real-time implementation [Conference paper]. 2024 6th International Conference on Smart Power & Internet Energy Systems (SPIES), 65–69. https://doi.org/10.1109/spies63782.2024.10983806
• Ramirez Gonzalez, M., Obusevs, A., Segundo Sevilla, F. R., & Korba, P. (2024, October 12). Real-time simulation of the initial dynamic model of CE in ePHASORsim : issues and troubleshooting. 2024 IEEE 65th International Scientific Conference on Power and Electrical Engineering of Riga Technical University (RTUCON). https://doi.org/10.1109/RTUCON62997.2024.10830830
• Ramirez Gonzalez, M., Segundo Sevilla, F. R., Korba, P., & Castellanos, R. (2024, September 18). Grid-forming converter-interfaced generation for dynamic support of the BCS power grid. 2024 IEEE Kansas Power and Energy Conference (KPEC). https://doi.org/10.1109/KPEC61529.2024.10676124
• Segundo Sevilla, F. R., Liu, Y., Barocio, E., Korba, P., Zamora, A., Dotta, D., Bellizio, F., Chavez, H., Jóhannsson, H., Cepeda, J., Cremer, J., Zhao, J., Arrieta, M., Paolone, M., Ramirez, M., Papadopoulos, P., & Susuki, Y. (2024, July 21). Spatio-temporal data-driven and machine learning based applications for transmission systems. 2024 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM). https://doi.org/10.1109/pesgm51994.2024.10688546
• Ramirez Gonzalez, M., Segundo Sevilla, F. R., Korba, P., & Castellanos, R. (2024, July 3). CNN with squeeze and excitation attention module for power system transient stability assessment. 2024 12th International Conference on Smart Grid (icSmartGrid). https://doi.org/10.1109/icSmartGrid61824.2024.10578176
• Kellermüller, S., Ramirez Gonzalez, M., Obushevs, A., & Korba, P. (2023, August 9). Impact of time delays on the performance of a wide-area damping controller under reduced inertia scenarios. 2023 IEEE Belgrade PowerTech. https://doi.org/10.1109/PowerTech55446.2023.10202909
• Ramirez Gonzalez, M., Segundo Sevilla, F. R., & Korba, P. (2023, August 3). Tuning of grid-forming converters with a settings-free optimization algorithm to improve frequency response of low-inertia systems. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2023 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I&CPS Europe). https://doi.org/10.1109/EEEIC/ICPSEurope57605.2023.10194694
• Kellermüller, S., Ramirez-Gonzalez, M., Obushevs, A., & Korba, P. (2023). Laboratory implementation of a wide-area damping controller using a dynamic hardware emulator [Conference paper]. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 56(2), 2287–2292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2023.10.1195
• Ramirez Gonzalez, M., Bossio, M., Segundo Sevilla, F. R., & Korba, P. (2022). Evaluation of static network equivalent models for N-1 line contingency analysis [Conference paper]. Proceedings of IEEE GPECOM 2022, 328–333. https://doi.org/10.1109/GPECOM55404.2022.9815713
• Ramirez Gonzalez, M., Segundo Sevilla, F. R., & Korba, P. (2022). Power system inertia estimation using a residual neural network based approach [Conference paper]. Proceedings of IEEE GEPCOM 2022, 355–360. https://doi.org/10.1109/GPECOM55404.2022.9815784
• Ramirez Gonzalez, M., Nösberger, L., Segundo Sevilla, F. R., & Korba, P. (2022). Small-signal stability assessment with transfer learning-based convolutional neural networks [Conference paper]. 2022 IEEE Electrical Power and Energy Conference (EPEC), 386–391. https://doi.org/10.1109/EPEC56903.2022.9999738
• Kellermüller, S., Obusevs, A., Ramirez Gonzalez, M., & Korba, P. (2022, October 24). Inter-area oscillation damping in a scaled version of the Kundur’s two area power system. 9th International Conference, Integration of Renewable & Distributed Energy Resources (IRED), Adelaide, Australia, 24-26 October 2022. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-26569
• Sattinger, W., Ramirez Gonzalez, M., Hillberg, E., Segundo Sevilla, F. R., Obusevs, A., Chacko, A., Clauss, D., & Korba, P. (2022, August 31). Impact of aggregated assets in the power system. CIGRE Session, Paris, France, 28 August - 2 September 2022.
• Favre-Perrod, P., Sattinger, W., Korba, P., Ramirez Gonzalez, M., Segundo Sevilla, F. R., & Wartmann, B. (2021). Experimental and HIL investigation of under-frequency and rate of change of frequency load shedding schemes in interconnected networks with high penetration of renewable generation [Conference paper]. CIRED 2021 - the 26th International Conference and Exhibition on Electricity Distribution, 1131–1135. https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2021.1898
• Ramirez Gonzalez, M., Segundo Sevilla, F. R., & Korba, P. (2021). Convolutional neural network based approach for static security assessment of power systems [Conference paper]. 2021 World Automation Congress (WAC), 106–110. https://doi.org/10.23919/WAC50355.2021.9559458
• Ramirez Gonzalez, M., Segundo Sevilla, F. R., & Korba, P. (2021, March 1). A study on the frequency dynamics of the ENTSO-E grid with increasing share of renewable generation. 9th International Conference on Renewable Power Generation (IET RPG), Dublin, Ireland, 1-2 March 2021.
• Ramirez Gonzalez, M., Segundo Sevilla, F. R., & Korba, P. (2020, November 6). Optimization free of algorithm-specific control parameters for power system stabilizer tuning. 2020 IEEE 61st International Scientific Conference on Power and Electrical Engineering of Riga Technical University (RTUCON). https://doi.org/10.1109/RTUCON51174.2020.9316612

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

Kellermüller, S., Obushevs, A., Ramirez Gonzalez, M., & Korba, P. (2022, December 6). Digital twin of a dynamic hardware emulator : challenges and opportunities. AIT/IEEE PES Austria Chapter Lecture Series, Online, 6. December 2022. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.31703.34726

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• Assessment of inertial and primary frequency control from wind power plants in the Mexican Electric Power Grid
• Placement and Sizing of Battery Energy Storage for Primary Frequency Control in an Isolated Section of the Mexican Power System
• Neural Network Model to Estimate Resistivity of Ground Enhancers Reinforced with Graphene Nano particles for Transmission Lines
• Conventional and fuzzy PODCs for DFIG-based wind farms and their impact on inter-area and torsional oscillation damping
• Coordinated design of fuzzy supplementary controllers for generator and STATCOM voltage regulators using bat algorithm optimization
• Effect of PODCs for DFIG Based Wind Farms in the Inter-area and Torsional Oscillation Damping
• Self-Tuned Power System Stabilizer Based on a Simple Fuzzy Logic Controller
• Power System Stabilizer Design Using an Online Adaptive Neurofuzzy Controller With Adaptive Input Link Weights

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