M emory is a fundamental commodity of computation. Storage systems provide memory that costs far less than RAM and has greater persistence, but suffers from much lower data transfer bandwidths and higher access latencies. These attributes — cost, persistence, bandwidth, and latency — are the traditional evaluation metrics for storage systems, but the remarkable growth of communications and netw...

The distributed control of battery energy storage systems (BESSs) plays an important role in the practical operation microgrid. This brief studies state-of-charge (SoC) balancing and total charging/discharging power tracking issues for BESSs with multiple heterogeneous units under premise that only partial can access desired power. First, two prespecified-time observers are proposed to estimate...