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Keith Moffat

Biography

Keith Moffat is a postdoctoral researcher at the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich, specialising in electrical engineering and computer science. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2022, where he also competed on the US Ski Team from 2009 to 2015.

Research and Publications

Moffat's research focuses on developing new data-driven control and optimisation tools to facilitate the transition to 100% renewable energy electric grids. He has contributed to the following publications:

Robust online joint state/input/parameter estimation of linear systems
Bayesian Error-in-Variables Models for the Identification of Distribution Grids
Challenges and Opportunities of Integrating Electric Vehicles in Electricity Distribution Systems
Online Learning for Robust Voltage Control Under Uncertain Grid Topology
Hosting capacity of distribution networks for controlled and uncontrolled residential EV charging with static and dynamic thermal ratings of network components

Teaching

At ETH Zurich, Moffat has helped develop the Computational Control course and led exercise and review sessions for the Control Systems course. At UC Berkeley, he was a graduate student instructor for the university's Introduction to Electric Power Systems course and the Flow of Power Information and Money in Tomorrow’s Electric Grid course offered by UC Berkeley to the Dubai Electric and Water Authority (DEWA).

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Keith Moffat Postdoctoral Researcher at the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich http://www.keithmoffat.com/ A scalable active battery management system with embedded real-time electrochemical impedance spectroscopy E Din, C Schaef, K Moffat, JT Stauth IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 32 (7), 5688-5698, 2016 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=dkWaKkvUJBQC&citationforview=dkWaKkvUJBQC:UeHWp8X0CEIC Cited by: 168

Unsupervised impedance and topology estimation of distribution networks—Limitations and tools K Moffat, M Bariya, A Von Meier IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 11 (1), 846-856, 2019 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=dkWaKkvUJBQC&citationforview=dkWaKkvUJBQC:u5HHmVD_uO8C Cited by: 66

Phasor-based control for scalable integration of variable energy resources A von Meier, EL Ratnam, K Brady, K Moffat, J Swartz Energies 13 (1), 190, 2020 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=dkWaKkvUJBQC&citationforview=dkWaKkvUJBQC:2osOgNQ5qMEC Cited by: 21

Challenges and opportunities of integrating electric vehicles in electricity distribution systems N Panossian, M Muratori, B Palmintier, A Meintz, T Lipman, K Moffat Current sustainable/renewable energy reports 9 (2), 27-40, 2022 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=dkWaKkvUJBQC&citationforview=dkWaKkvUJBQC:hqOjcs7Dif8C Cited by: 18

Bayesian error-in-variables models for the identification of distribution grids JS Brouillon, E Fabbiani, P Nahata, K Moffat, F Dörfler, G Ferrari-Trecate IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 14 (2), 1289-1299, 2022 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=dkWaKkvUJBQC&citationforview=dkWaKkvUJBQC:0EnyYjriUFMC Cited by: 14

Online spectroscopic diagnostics implemented in an efficient battery management system E Din, C Schaef, K Moffat, JT Stauth 2015 IEEE 16th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics …, 2015 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=dkWaKkvUJBQC&citationforview=dkWaKkvUJBQC:IjCSPb-OGe4C Cited by: 14

Modular battery arrays and associated methods DIN Eric, C Schaef, K Moffat, JT Stauth US Patent App. 15/368,442, 2017 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=dkWaKkvUJBQC&citationforview=dkWaKkvUJBQC:9yKSN-GCB0IC Cited by: 12

Empirical noise estimation in distribution synchrophasor measurements M Bariya, K Moffat, A Von Meier 2019 International Conference on Smart Grid Synchronized Measurements and …, 2019 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=dkWaKkvUJBQC&citationforview=dkWaKkvUJBQC:u-x6o8ySG0sC Cited by: 11

Real time effective impedance estimation for power system state estimation K Moffat, M Bariya, A Von Meier 2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies …, 2020 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=dkWaKkvUJBQC&citationforview=dkWaKkvUJBQC:Tyk-4Ss8FVUC Cited by: 8

Systems and methods for characterizing impedance of an energy storage device DIN Eric, C Schaef, K Moffat, JT Stauth N/A Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=dkWaKkvUJBQC&citationforview=dkWaKkvUJBQC:qjMakFHDy7sC Cited by: 8

Architecture for co-simulation of transportation and distribution systems with electric vehicle charging at scale in the san francisco bay area NV Panossian, H Laarabi, K Moffat, H Chang, B Palmintier, A Meintz, … Energies 16 (5), 2189, 2023 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=dkWaKkvUJBQC&citationforview=dkWaKkvUJBQC:8k81kl-MbHgC Cited by: 7

Local power-voltage sensitivity and thevenin impedance estimation from phasor measurements K Moffat 2021 IEEE Madrid PowerTech, 1-6, 2021 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=dkWaKkvUJBQC&citationforview=dkWaKkvUJBQC:eQOLeE2rZwMC Cited by: 6

Phasor based control with the distributed, extensible grid control platform K Moffat, J Pakshong, L Chu, G Fierro, J Swartz, M Baudette, A von Meier 2021 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies …, 2021 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=dkWaKkvUJBQC&citationforview=dkWaKkvUJBQC:YsMSGLbcyi4C Cited by: 6

Network impedance estimation for microgrid control using noisy synchrophasor measurements K Moffat, M Bariya, A von Meier 2018 IEEE 19th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics …, 2018 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=dkWaKkvUJBQC&citationforview=dkWaKkvUJBQC:d1gkVwhDpl0C Cited by: 6

Bayesian error-in-variables models for the identification of power networks JS Brouillon, E Fabbiani, P Nahata, K Moffat, F Dörfler, G Ferrari-Trecate arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.04480, 2021 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=dkWaKkvUJBQC&citationforview=dkWaKkvUJBQC:5nxA0vEk-isC Cited by: 5

The multiple model adaptive power system state estimator K Moffat, C Tomlin 2021 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 3525-3530, 2021 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=dkWaKkvUJBQC&citationforview=dkWaKkvUJBQC:roLk4NBRz8UC Cited by: 4

Robust online joint state/input/parameter estimation of linear systems JS Brouillon, K Moffat, F Dörfler, G Ferrari-Trecate 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2153-2158, 2022 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=dkWaKkvUJBQC&citationforview=dkWaKkvUJBQC:UebtZRa9Y70C Cited by: 3

An extensible software and communication platform for distributed energy resource management G Fierro, K Moffat, J Pakshong, A von Meier 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing …, 2020 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=dkWaKkvUJBQC&citationforview=dkWaKkvUJBQC:W7OEmFMy1HYC Cited by: 3

Physically meaningful grid analytics on voltage measurements using graph spectra M Bariya, K Moffat, A Von Meier 2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies …, 2020 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=dkWaKkvUJBQC&citationforview=dkWaKkvUJBQC:Y0pCki6q_DkC Cited by: 3

Grid-Enhanced, Mobility-Integrated Network Infrastructures for Extreme Fast Charging (GEMINI-XFC) A Meintz, T Lipman, B Palmintier, M Muratori, N Panossian, P Jadun, … National Renewable Energy Lab.(NREL), Golden, CO (United States), 2022 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=dkWaKkvUJBQC&citationforview=dkWaKkvUJBQC:Se3iqnhoufwC Cited by: 2

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Keith Moffat

Postdoctoral Researcher at the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich

http://www.keithmoffat.com/

A scalable active battery management system with embedded real-time electrochemical impedance spectroscopy E Din, C Schaef, K Moffat, JT Stauth IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 32 (7), 5688-5698, 2016 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=dkWaKkvUJBQC&citationforview=dkWaKkvUJBQC:UeHWp8X0CEIC

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