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Brian Johnson is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and specializes in engineering, with a strong focus on electrical and electronic engineering as well as control and systems engineering. Their research spans various subfields including radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, and computer networks and communications.

Their work concentrates on key topics within electrical engineering and power systems, including:

  • Microgrid Control and Optimization
  • Islanding Detection in Power Systems
  • HVDC Systems and Fault Protection
  • Multilevel Inverters and Converters
  • Advanced DC-DC Converters
  • Power System Optimization and Stability
  • Smart Grid Energy Management

Brian Johnson has published research in a range of venues, predominantly in IEEE journals and conferences. Frequent publication venues include:

  • IEEE Power and Energy Magazine
  • IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Their recent publications highlight contributions to power electronics and inverter-based resources, with notable papers such as:

  • "Overcurrent Limiting in Grid-Forming Inverters: A Comprehensive Review and Discussion," 2024, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
  • "Pathways to the Next-Generation Power System With Inverter-Based Resources: Challenges and recommendations," 2022, IEEE Electrification Magazine
  • "Benchmarking Nonlinear Oscillators for Grid-Forming Inverter Control," 2022, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
  • "Comparison of Droop Control and Virtual Oscillator Control Realized by Andronov-Hopf Dynamics," 2020, IECON 2020 The 46th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
  • "A Practical Digital Implementation of Completely Decentralized Ripple Minimization in Parallel-Connected DC-DC Converters," 2022, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Brian Johnson collaborates frequently with a core group of co-authors, including Kevin Lisankie, John Paserba, Antonio J. Conejo, Luiz Barroso, and Michael J. Miller.

Best Publications

  • Achieving a 100% Renewable Grid: Operating Electric Power Systems with Extremely High Levels of Variable Renewable Energy

    Benjamin Kroposki;Brian Johnson;Yingchen Zhang;Vahan Gevorgian

  • Differential Power Processing for Increased Energy Production and Reliability of Photovoltaic Systems

    P. S. Shenoy;K. A. Kim;B. B. Johnson;P. T. Krein

  • Synchronization of Parallel Single-Phase Inverters With Virtual Oscillator Control

    Brian B. Johnson;Sairaj V. Dhople;Abdullah O. Hamadeh;Philip T. Krein

  • Research Roadmap on Grid-Forming Inverters

    Yashen Lin;Joseph Eto;Brian Johnson;Jack Flicker

  • Synthesizing Virtual Oscillators to Control Islanded Inverters

    Brian B. Johnson;Mohit Sinha;Nathan G. Ainsworth;Florian Dorfler

  • DRAM Circuit Design: Fundamental and High-Speed Topics

    Brent Keeth;R. Jacob Baker;Brian Johnson;Feng Lin

  • Uncovering Droop Control Laws Embedded Within the Nonlinear Dynamics of Van der Pol Oscillators

    Mohit Sinha;Florian Dorfler;Brian B. Johnson;Sairaj V. Dhople

  • Decentralized optimal dispatch of photovoltaic inverters in residential distribution systems

    Emiliano Dall'Anese;Sairaj V. Dhople;Brian B. Johnson;Georgios B. Giannakis

  • Decentralized Optimal Dispatch of Photovoltaic Inverters in Residential Distribution Systems

    Emiliano Dall’Anese;Sairaj V. Dhople;Brian B. Johnson;Georgios B. Giannakis

  • Dispatchable Virtual Oscillator Control for Decentralized Inverter-dominated Power Systems: Analysis and Experiments

    Gab-Su Seo;Marcello Colombino;Irina Subotic;Brian Johnson

  • Synchronization of Nonlinear Oscillators in an LTI Electrical Power Network

    Brian B. Johnson;Sairaj V. Dhople;Abdullah O. Hamadeh;Philip T. Krein

  • Oscillator-Based Inverter Control for Islanded Three-Phase Microgrids

    Brian B. Johnson;Sairaj V. Dhople;James L. Cale;Abdullah O. Hamadeh

  • A Grid-compatible Virtual Oscillator Controller: Analysis and Design

    Minghui Lu;Soham Dutta;Victor Purba;Sairaj Dhople

  • Comparison of virtual oscillator and droop control

    Brian Johnson;Miguel Rodriguez;Mohit Sinha;Sairaj Dhople

  • Overcurrent Limiting in Grid-Forming Inverters: A Comprehensive Review and Discussion

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  • Pathways to the Next-Generation Power System With Inverter-Based Resources: Challenges and recommendations

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  • Synchronization of Nonlinear Circuits in Dynamic Electrical Networks With General Topologies

    Sairaj V. Dhople;Brian B. Johnson;Florian Dorfler;Abdullah O. Hamadeh

  • Benchmarking Nonlinear Oscillators for Grid-Forming Inverter Control

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  • Transient Stability Assessment of Multi-Machine Multi-Converter Power Systems

    Hugo N. Villegas Pico;Brian B. Johnson

  • Virtual Oscillator Control for voltage source inverters

    Sairaj V. Dhople;Brian B. Johnson;Abdullah O. Hamadeh

  • An Interaction-Admittance Model for Multi-Inverter Grid-Connected Systems

    Minghui Lu;Yongheng Yang;Brian Johnson;Frede Blaabjerg

  • Decentralized Interleaving of Parallel-connected Buck Converters

    Mohit Sinha;Jason Poon;Brian B. Johnson;Miguel Rodriguez

  • Reduced-order Aggregate Model for Parallel-connected Single-phase Inverters

    Victor Purba;Brian B. Johnson;Miguel Rodriguez;Saber Jafarpour

  • Virtual Oscillator Control subsumes droop control

    Mohit Sinha;Florian Dorfler;Brian B. Johnson;Sairaj V. Dhople

  • A Multilevel DC to Three-Phase AC Architecture for Photovoltaic Power Plants

    Prasanta K. Achanta;Brian B. Johnson;Gab-Su Seo;Dragan Maksimovic

Frequent Co-Authors

Sairaj V. Dhople
Sairaj V. Dhople University of Minnesota
Dragan Maksimovic
Dragan Maksimovic University of Colorado Boulder
Philip T. Krein
Philip T. Krein University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Francesco Bullo
Francesco Bullo University of California, Santa Barbara
Ali Davoudi
Ali Davoudi The University of Texas at Arlington
Patrick L. Chapman
Patrick L. Chapman Redwood Materials
Georgios B. Giannakis
Georgios B. Giannakis University of Minnesota
Alejandro D. Dominguez-Garcia
Alejandro D. Dominguez-Garcia University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert H. Lasseter
Robert H. Lasseter University of Wisconsin–Madison

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