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Record W4410390403 · doi:10.1016/j.ijepes.2025.110721

Joint optimization of location and topology of multi-terminal soft open point in distribution networks

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Haibo Zhou, Guojiang Xiong, Xiaofan Fu, Man‐Chung Wong, Louis‐A. Dessaint, Kamal Al‐Haddad

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicOptimal Power Flow Distribution
Canadian institutionsÉcole de Technologie SupérieureUniversité du Québec à Montréal
FundersNatural Science Foundation of Guizhou ProvinceNational Natural Science Foundation of China
KeywordsTerminal (telecommunication)Topology (electrical circuits)Joint (building)Topology optimizationPoint (geometry)Computer scienceDistribution (mathematics)Network topologyMathematical optimizationComputer networkEngineeringMathematicsStructural engineeringFinite element methodElectrical engineeringGeometryMathematical analysis

Abstract

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The popularization of renewable energy has led to problems including excessive current and voltage violations in distribution networks. Soft open point (SOP) enables real-time continuous active and reactive power regulation to alleviate these problems. However, how many terminals of a SOP should be set, and which feeders should be interconnected with these terminals is a crucial issue. To address this issue and fully utilize the performance of SOP, this paper conducts a comparative study of SOP with different topologies. First, a nonlinear programming (NLP) model to reveal the effect of multi-terminal SOP (MTSOP) in minimizing system losses and voltage deviation is developed. Second, to facilitate the solution, the NLP model is transformed into a second-order cone programming (SOCP) model based on cone relaxation. Finally, validation on the IEEE 33-, 69- and 141-node systems is conducted. MTSOP can reduce the total losses of IEEE 33-, 69- and 141-node systems by up to 23.54 %, 37.98 %, and 28.90 %, respectively. Although SOPs with a large number of terminals have excellent performance, they are difficult to gain an advantage in feasibility. Therefore, it is not necessarily better to have more terminals in an MTSOP which should be determined based on the characteristics of distribution networks.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.008

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.250
Teacher spread0.242 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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