Publications

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Book Chapters

(B1) Learning stable Volt/Var controllers in distribution grids
Z. Yuan, G. Cavraro, and J. Cortés
Big Data Application in Power Systems (Second Edition), 2024. [ScienceDirect]

Journal Papers

(J10) Hierarchical optimization approach for online distributed cooperative electric vehicle charging
Z. Yuan, A. Pons, A. Khurram, S. Martínez, and J. Cortés
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2026. Soon to be submitted.
(J9) Stability constrained voltage control in distribution grids with arbitrary communication infrastructures
Z. Yuan, J. Feng, Y. Shi, and J. Cortés
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 17(1): 351-362, 2026. [IEEE Xplore, arXiv]
(J8) Unsupervised learning for equitable DER control
Z. Yuan, G. Cavraro, A. S. Zamzam, and J. Cortés
Electric Power Systems Research, 234: 110634, 2024. [ScienceDirect, arXiv]
(J7) Learning decentralized frequency controllers for energy storage systems
Z. Sun*, Z. Yuan*, C. Zhao, and J. Cortés
IEEE Control Systems Letters, 7: 3459-3464, 2023. [IEEE Xplore]
(J6) Constraints on OPF surrogates for learning stable local Volt/Var controllers
Z. Yuan, G. Cavraro, and J. Cortés
IEEE Control Systems Letters, 7: 2533-2538, 2023. [IEEE Xplore, arXiv]
(J5) Learning provably stable local Volt/Var controllers for efficient network operation
Z. Yuan, G. Cavraro, M. K. Singh, and J. Cortés
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 39(1): 2066-2079, 2024. [IEEE Xplore, arXiv, CDC'22]
(J4) Reinforcement learning for distributed transient frequency control with stability and safety guarantees
Z. Yuan, C. Zhao, and J. Cortés
Systems & Control Letters, 185: 105753, 2024. [ScienceDirect, arXiv]
(J3) Data-driven optimal control of bilinear systems
Z. Yuan and J. Cortés
IEEE Control Systems Letters, 6: 2479-2484, 2022. [IEEE Xplore, arXiv]
(J2) Event-triggered quantized communication-based consensus in multi-agent systems via sliding mode
Z. Yuan, Y. Xiong, G. Sun, J. Liu, and L. Wu
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 52(5): 3925-3935, 2022. [IEEE Xplore]
(J1) Trajectory tracking control of a four Mecanum wheeled mobile platform: An ESO-based sliding mode approach
Z. Yuan, Y. Tian, Y. Yin, S. Wang, J. Liu, and L. Wu
IET Control Theory & Applications, 14(3): 415-426, 2020. [Wiley]

Conference Proceedings

(C5) Data-enabled predictive control for nonlinear systems based on a Koopman bilinear realization
Z. Xiong, Z. Yuan, K. Miao, H. Wang, J. Cortés, and A. Papachristodoulou
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dec. 2025. [IEEE Xplore, arXiv]
(C4) Unsupervised learning for equitable DER control
Z. Yuan, G. Cavraro, A. S. Zamzam, and J. Cortés
Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC), Paris-Saclay, France, June 2024. [PSCC Repository, arXiv]
(C3) Learning decentralized frequency controllers for energy storage systems
Z. Sun*, Z. Yuan*, C. Zhao, and J. Cortés
American Control Conference (ACC), Toronto, Canada, July 2024. [IEEE Xplore]
(C2) Constraints on OPF surrogates for learning stable local Volt/Var controllers
Z. Yuan, G. Cavraro, and J. Cortés
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, Dec. 2023. [IEEE Xplore, arXiv]
(C1) Learning local Volt/Var controllers towards efficient network operation with stability guarantees
G. Cavraro, Z. Yuan, M. K. Singh, and J. Cortés
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Cancún, Mexico, Dec. 2022. [IEEE Xplore, arXiv]