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Control of Residential Air-conditioning Loads to Provide Regulation Services under Uncertainties

Published in 2021 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), 2021

This paper presents a model-based approach for the collective control of residential air-conditioning loads to deliver robust and optimal demand management.

Recommended citation: G. Lankeshwara, R. Sharma, R. Yan and T. K. Saha, "Control of Residential Air-conditioning Loads to Provide Regulation Services under Uncertainties," 2021 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), 2021, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/PESGM46819.2021.9637890. https://doi.org/10.1109/PESGM46819.2021.9637890

A Real-time Control Approach to Maximise the Utilisation of Rooftop PV Using Dynamic Export Limits

Published in 2021 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies-Asia (ISGT Asia), 2021

This paper presents a LV feeder-level real-time control approach to maximise the utilisation of rooftop PV by assigning 5-min active power export limits for households.

Recommended citation: G. Lankeshwara, "A Real-time Control Approach to Maximise the Utilisation of Rooftop PV Using Dynamic Export Limits," 2021 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia), 2021, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ISGTAsia49270.2021.9715714. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTAsia49270.2021.9715714

Control algorithms to mitigate the effect of uncertainties in residential demand management

Published in Applied Energy, 2022

This paper proposes a novel two-stage control algorithm for robust centralised management of aggregate residential loads which guarantee precise load set-point tracking in the presence of uncertainties occurring in real-time while ensuring that end-user thermal comfort is not compromised.

Recommended citation: Lankeshwara, Gayan & Sharma, Rahul & Yan, Ruifeng & Saha, Tapan K., 2022. "Control algorithms to mitigate the effect of uncertainties in residential demand management," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 306(PA). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.117971

A hierarchical control scheme for residential air-conditioning loads to provide real-time market services under uncertainties

Published in Energy, 2022

This paper presents an end-user privacy and comfort preserving, scalable, hierarchical control scheme for inverter-type air conditioners to provide real-time market services in the presence of uncertainties.

Recommended citation: G. Lankeshwara, R. Sharma, R. Yan and T.K. Saha, "A hierarchical control scheme for residential air-conditioning loads to provide real-time market services under uncertainties," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 250, p. 123796, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2022.123796

Dynamic operating envelopes-enabled demand response in low-voltage residential networks

Published in 2022 IEEE PES 14th Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference (APPEEC), 2022

This paper presents a real-time, coordinated approach for residential demand response (DR) participation in electricity markets under the dynamic operating envelopes (DOEs) framework.

Recommended citation: G. Lankeshwara and R. Sharma, "Dynamic operating envelopes-enabled demand response in low-voltage residential networks," 2022 IEEE PES 14th Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference (APPEEC), 2022, doi: 10.1109/APPEEC53445.2022.10072108. https://doi.org/10.1109/APPEEC53445.2022.10072108

Allocation of Dynamic Operating Envelopes in Distribution Networks: Technical and Equitable Perspectives

Published in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 2023

This paper proposes a two-stage, top-down approach to allocate dynamic operating envelopes in MV-LV (medium voltage-low voltage) integrated distribution networks.

Recommended citation: M. R. Alam, P. T. H. Nguyen, L. Naranpanawe, T. K. Saha and G. Lankeshwara, 2023. "Allocation of Dynamic Operating Envelopes in Distribution Networks: Technical and Equitable Perspectives," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2023, doi:10.1109/TSTE.2023.3275082 https://doi.org/10.1109/TSTE.2023.3275082

Robust Provision of Demand Response from Thermostatically Controllable Loads using Lagrangian Relaxation

Published in International Journal of Control, 2023

This paper presents an end-user privacy and thermal comfort preserving approach for residential thermostatically controllable loads (TCLs) to provide demand response (DR) in grid services under uncertainties.

Recommended citation: Gayan Lankeshwara and Rahul Sharma, "Robust Provision of Demand Response from Thermostatically Controllable Loads using Lagrangian Relaxation," International Journal of Control, 2023, doi: 10.1080/00207179.2023.2241579. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207179.2023.2241579

Time-varying Operating Regions of End-users and Feeders in Low-voltage Distribution Networks

Published in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2023

This paper proposes a near real-time approach to determine dynamic operating envelopes that specify the feasible operating regions at end-users’ POC in an LV distribution network.

Recommended citation: G. Lankeshwara, R. Sharma, R. Yan, T. K. Saha and J. V. Milanovic, 2023. "Time-varying Operating Regions of End-users and Feeders in Low-voltage Distribution Networks," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2023, doi:10.1109/TPWRS.2023.3302421 https://doi.org/10.1109/TPWRS.2023.3302421

Dynamic Operating Envelope-enabled P2P Trading to Maximise Financial Returns of Prosumers

Published in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2023

This paper presents a new dynamic operating envelope (DOE)-integrated peer-to-peer (P2P) trading scheme to increase the exchange of electricity from prosumers to a distribution network without jeopardising the network constraints.

Recommended citation: M. I. Azim, G. Lankeshwara, W. Tushar, R. Sharma, M. R. Alam, T. K. Saha, M. Khorasany and R. Razzaghi, 2023. "Dynamic Operating Envelope-enabled P2P Trading to Maximise Financial Returns of Prosumers," IEEE Transactions on Smart Grids, 2023, doi:10.1109/TSG.2023.3297366 https://doi.org/10.1109/TSG.2023.3297366

talks

PESGM 2021 Conference

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This is the IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM) 2021 conference presentation for the accepted paper.

PhD Thesis Review Seminar

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This is the PhD thesis review seminar that was performed at the end of 36 months from the enrolment.

teaching

Temporary Instructor

Full-time, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Peradeniya, 2018

Conducted practical sessions, tutorials for undergraduate students at the Power and Energy Lab of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Peradeniya.

Temporary Lecturer

Full-time, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Peradeniya, 2018

Conducted practical sessions, tutorials for undergraduate students at the Power and Energy Lab of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Peradeniya.

Visiting Lecturer

Part-time, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Peradeniya, 2023

Distribution Systems Engineering (EE 662) course was taught in the first semester of the M.Sc. Eng. in Power Applications program for the year 2023.