Forced Oscillations (FO) stemming from external periodic disturbances threaten power system security and stability. The increasing penetration of Inverter-Based Resources(IBRs) further introduces FO, leading to new challenges in identifying and locating FO sources in modern power systems. In this paper, a novel data-driven method for locating FO in power systems with IBRs is proposed. Unlike previous works, a unified representation of FO originating from IBRs is considered, which further facilitates the development of the FO locating algorithm. Leveraging on Sparse Identification for a Nonlinear Dynamical (SINDy), a purely data-driven methodology is developed for locating the source of FO by interpreting the proposed model from measurements. Numerical results on the WECC 240-bus system validate the performance of the proposed approach in successfully locating FO in the presence of IBRs.
@article{arxiv.2508.17505,
title = {A Data-Driven Forced Oscillation Locating Method for Power Systems with Inverter-Based Resources},
author = {Yaojie Cai and Georgia Pierrou and Xiaozhe Wang and Geza Joos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.17505},
year = {2025}
}