A novel framework for the process control of the restoration of electricalindustrial systems

A technical process is the controlled flow of matter, energy or information . This work concentrates on event-related control rather than the widely in vestigated continuous control. Special attention has been given to the comp lex multi-variable problem of large-scale power systems restoration followi ng a widespread outage. Processes taken place and related process control c an be effectively described by states and transitions, which form the basis of a novel methodology using the Petri Net (PN) framework. Since PNs are a rigid mathematical tool, they can be used as a very general approach to ev ent-related process control in simulating, checking and providing a quantit ative as well as qualitative understanding of the underlying processes. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.