Acknowledgments

I would like to express my deep thanks to Prof. Göran Andersson. He introduced me into research community and provided a lot of support, many valuable advices and opportunities for development of various professional skills. My PhD studies have been done externally, during my engagement in industry, explicitly ABB Switzerland Ltd, which was represented in the advisory committee of my PhD studies by Dr. Joachim Bertsch and Dr. Christian Rehtanz. I am very grateful to Christian, his active constructive attitude and his couching have been very valuable inspiration, from which I tried to learn as much as I could. I acknowledge the continuous support of Joachim during the whole PhD studies, who provided me opportunities to interact both with research community (e.g. via time allocation for traveling to conferences) as well as industrial partners (e.g. engineers from companies operating transmission systems). At several occasions in the recent years I had a luck to experience very inspiring discussions with Prof. Dr. Ian Dobson. Therefore I am very happy to have him as co-referee of my thesis. As a part of my thesis deals with Model Predictive Control, I am honored to have Prof. Dr. Manfred Morari as my second co-referee. His course on Model Predictive Control triggered my interest in this topic and in control as such. During my PhD studies, I have interacted with many researchers in various extend. Very enriching were discussions and correspondenc