CREST: Interdisciplinary Center for Research Excellence in Design of Intelligent Technologies for Smartgrids Phase II

科学和技术卓越研究中心方案通过建立有效整合教育和研究的中心，为加强少数群体服务机构的研究能力提供支持。在国家科学基金会的支持下，新墨西哥州立大学将在第一阶段中心成果的基础上，致力于研究实现微电网和微电网网络的可扩展方法，以满足安全、可靠性和弹性标准。第二阶段中心调查人员将开展合作研究，探索将现有配电基础设施转变为互联的智能微电网。第二阶段中心解决下一代电力生产和交付的设计、运营和安全挑战，提供针对小概率、高影响事件的可持续性、可靠性和弹性。该中心阐述了三个研究线索，以及第四个整合努力。建模、运营和集成解决了以客户为中心的配电微电网架构缺乏标准化物理设计和运营方法的问题，并创建了平衡可持续性、经济性和可靠性的设计。安全和复原力框架定义了实现安全和复原力所需的体系结构框架，提供了对其他研究组的模型和算法的约束。数据驱动的决策链实现了数据-信息-知识-决策流，以支持以客户为中心的配电微电网的运行和控制，优化了弹性，实现了以用户为中心的交互行为。新墨西哥州州立大学中心将努力成为以客户为中心的分布式微电网和关键网络物理系统中创建可持续、集成和全面的学习途径的领导者。第二阶段中心通过扩大研究和培训渠道并引入专门的指导和保留机制来解决代表性不足的问题。新墨西哥州立大学还将通过在一系列学术项目中注入智能电网专业知识来提高能力。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology program provides support to enhance the research capabilities of minority-serving institutions through the establishment of centers that effectively integrate education and research. With National Science Foundation support, New Mexico State University will build on the accomplishments of their Phase I Center by engaging in research focused on scalable approaches to the realization of microgrids and networks of microgrids, that meet criteria of security, reliability, and resilience. Phase II Center investigators will conduct collaborative research to explore transformations of existing electricity distribution infrastructures into interconnected intelligent microgrids.The Phase II Center addresses design, operational, and security challenges of next generation electric power production and delivery, providing sustainability, reliability, and resilience against low-probability, high-impact events. The Center articulates three research strands, and a fourth integration effort. The Modeling, Operation and Integration strand addresses the lack of standardized physical design and operation approaches for customer-centric distribution microgrid architectures and creates designs that balance sustainability, economy, and reliability. The Security and Resilience Frameworks strand defines the architectural frameworks necessary to realize security and resilience, providing constraints on the models and algorithms from the other research strands. The Data-Driven Decision-Making strand implements the data-information-knowledge-decision flow to support operation and control of the customer-centric distribution microgrid, optimizing for resilience and enabling user-centered and transactive behavior. All research strands converge to investigate interactions and to validate the software and hardware implementations developed.The Center at New Mexico State University will strive to become a leader in the creation of sustainable, integrated and comprehensive learning pathways in customer-centric distribution microgrid and critical cyberphysical systems. The Phase II Center addresses underrepresentation by expanding the research and training pipeline and introducing specialized mentoring and retention mechanisms. New Mexico State University will also enhance competency by infusing smartgrids expertise in a range of academic programs.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.