  Recently sum-of-squares (SOS) based methods have been used for the stability
analysis and control synthesis of polynomial dynamical systems. This analysis
framework was also extended to non-polynomial dynamical systems, including
power systems, using an algebraic reformulation technique that recasts the
system's dynamics into a set of polynomial differential algebraic equations.
Nevertheless, for large scale dynamical systems this method becomes
inapplicable due to its computational complexity. For this reason we develop a
subsystem based stability analysis approach using vector Lyapunov functions and
introduce a parallel and scalable algorithm to infer the stability of the
interconnected system with the help of the subsystem Lyapunov functions.
Furthermore, we design adaptive and distributed control laws that guarantee
asymptotic stability under a given external disturbance. Finally, we apply this
algorithm for the stability analysis and control synthesis of a network
preserving power system.
