Dakota Roberson, Ph.D.

Dakota Roberson’s research interests lie in power systems control, high-performance control design, renewable energy integration, process control and statistical signal processing. Much of Roberson’s research is concentrated on distributed wide-area damping, employing various sources of active power actuation (e.g. HVDC, energy storage). Issues regarding time delay, positive feedback (i.e. regeneration) detection and coupling of distributed systems are of particular interest. These concentrations have resulted in the development of wide-area damping controllers for the western North American Power System, as well as smaller-scale, local control technologies based on energy storage and renewable generation. His teaching interests include power system stability, process automation, estimation/detection theory and advanced classical control.

• Member of the Defense Science Board
• White House Fellow, 2019-2020
• District Director, Tau Beta Pi (The Engineering Honor Society)
• Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Member of IEEE Power and Energy Society

• White House Fellow, 2019-2020
• Winner of the 2016 Fisher Innovation Challenge
• Nicholson Power Systems Engineering Fellowship

• D. Roberson and J. F. O'Brien, “Variable Loop Gain Using Excessive Regeneration Detection for a Delayed Wide-Area Control System”, US Patent No.: 10,355,485 B2, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, Jul. 16, 2019
• J. C. Bell, N. Kharadia, and D. Roberson, “Fuel Supply Chains in the Western Interconnect: Evaluating Availability During Extreme Weather Events," The Electricity Journal, vol. 33, Jan. 2020
• D. Roberson and J. F. O'Brien, “Asymmetric Dual Sensor Latency in Distributed Control," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 34, pp. 4533-4541, Nov. 2019
• A. Al Rashdan and D. Roberson, “A Frequency Domain Control Perspective on Xenon Resistance for Load Following of Thermal Nuclear Reactors," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 66, pp. 2034-2041, Sep. 2019
• D. Roberson and J. F. O'Brien, “Variable loop gain using excessive regeneration detection for a delayed wide-area control system," IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 9, pp. 6623-6632, Nov. 2018
• D. Roberson and J. F. O'Brien, “Loop Shaping of a Wide-Area Damping Controller Using HVDC," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 32, pp. 2354-2361, May 2017