  This paper introduces a control strategy to simultaneously achieve asymptotic
stabilization and transient frequency regulation of power networks. The control
command is generated by iteratively solving an open-loop control cost
minimization problem with stability and transient frequency constraints. To
deal with the non-convexity of the stability constraint, we propose a
convexification strategy that uses a reference trajectory based on the system's
current state. We also detail how to employ network partitions to implement the
proposed control strategy in a distributed way, where each region only requires
system information from neighboring regions to execute its controller.
