Software-defined Solar-powered Systems
This project focuses on the design of "smart" software-defined solar (SDS) systems that self-regulate the power they let "flow" into the grid. Similar to data transmission in the Internet, SDS systems dynamically regulate the solar energy that flows into the grid to maximize its available solar capacity, maintain a balanced supply and demand, and fairly share the available capacity among connected users. The project is funded by the National Science Foundation under grant CNS-1645952.
Publications
Solar-TK: A Data-driven Toolkit for Solar PV Performance Modeling and Forecasting
Noman Bashir, Dong Chen, David Irwin, and Prashant ShenoyMASS 2019Solar-TK code released on GitHub!On the Feasibility, Cost, and Carbon Emissions of Grid Defection
Akansha Singh Bansal and David IrwinSmartGridComm 2019Helios: A Programmable Software-defined Solar Module
Noman Bashir, David Irwin, and Prashant ShenoyBuildSys 2018Staring at the Sun: A Physical Black-box Solar Performance Model
Dong Chen and David IrwinBuildSys 2018vSolar: Virtualizing Community Solar and Storage for Energy Sharing
Stephen Lee, Prashant Shenoy, Krithi Ramamritham, and David Irwine-Energy 2018 (short paper)Mechanisms and Policies for Controlling Distributed Solar Capacity
Noman Bashir, David Irwin, Prashant Shenoy, and Jay TanejaTOSN 2018Enforcing Fair Grid Energy Access for Controllable Distributed Solar Capacity
Noman Bashir, David Irwin, Prashant Shenoy, and Jay TanejaBuildSys 2017Nominated for Best Paper Award!Black-box Solar Performance Modeling: Comparing Physical, Machine Learning, and Hybrid Approaches
Dong Chen and David IrwinGreenmetrics 2017SunDance: Black-box Behind-the-Meter Solar Disaggregation
Dong Chen and David Irwine-Energy 2017Distributed Rate Control for Smart Solar-powered Systems
Stephen Lee, Srinivasan Iyengar, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoye-Energy 2017A Cloud based Black Box Solar Predictor for Smart Homes
Srinivasan Iyengar, Navin Sharma, David Irwin, Prashant Shenoy, and Krithi RamamrithamTCPS 2017SunShade: Enabling Software-defined Solar-powered Systems
Akansha Singh, Stephen Lee, David Irwin, and Prashant ShenoyICCPS 2017