M.Sc. Johannes Börner

Distributed, resilient power control
Research Interest
General interests:
- Resiliency of distributed systems
- Distributed nonlinear control schemes
- Resiliency metrics
- Electrical grid vulnerabilities
With the increasing deployment of renewable energy sources (RES) in modern electrical grids new challenges for a reliable and stable operation arise. Modern electrical grids as cyber physical systems can face threats like hardware and communication failures alike. While hardware failures probably cause cascading failures further damaging infrastructure and thus may prevent a long range transport of energy, communication failures may destabilize electrical grids preventing a technical necessary or economic beneficial distribution. Especially malicious attacks may even try to exploit a concerted failure in the physical as well as the communications system.
We aim to develop control schemes which are able to increase both the robustness and the ability for recovery of distributed systems while operating as economic optimal as possible. By employing controller networks we hope to ensure a safe and reliable grid operation with reduced vulnerabilities.
Open theses
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Short Bio
Since 2017: PHD student at EINS TU Darmstadt
Since 2017: Teacher for control engineering at DHBW Mannheim
2015-2017: Assistant Researcher at “Institut für Automatisierungs- und Regleungstechnik” at the University of the German Federal Armed Forces in Munich
2012-2015: Service as a signal corps officer in the German army.
Military Assistant Researcher at the University of the German Federal Armed Forces in Munich
Second in command of 5th/ Signal Battalion of Division for Special Operations
2008-2012: B.Sc. and M.Sc. Electrical and Informations Engineering at University of the German Federal Armed Forces in Munich
2005-2012: Training and service as signal corps officer in the German army
Publications
[Conference]
Johannes Börner; Florian Steinke :
Measuring LTI System Resilience against Adversarial Disturbances based on Efficient Generalized Eigenvalue Computations.
In: 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2021), virtual Conference, 2021
[Conference]
Johannes Börner; Florian Steinke :
On the Resilience of Secondary Frequency Control.
In: ETG-Kongress 2019 - Das Gesamtsystem im Fokus der Energiewende, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany, 2019
[Conference]
Johannes Börner; Simon Scheurich; Florian Steinke :
Nonlinear consensus for improved resilience of distributed secondary frequency control.
In: 2019 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT Europe), Bucharest, Romania, 2019
[Conference]
Johannes Börner; Florian Steinke :
Distributed Secondary Frequency Control via Price Consensus.
In: 8th IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018