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We consider the problem of identifying a single line outage in a power grid by using data from phasor measurement units (PMUs). When a line outage occurs, the voltage phasor of each bus node changes in response to the change in network…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-15 Taedong Kim , Stephen J. Wright

Big data analytic applications using phasor measurements help improve the situation awareness of grid operators to better operate and control the system. Phasor measurement unit (PMU) data from actual grids is viewed as highly confidential…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-10 Ti Xu , Hanyue Li , Adam B. Birchfield , Thomas J. Overbye

Deep learning has emerged as an effective solution for addressing the challenges of short-term voltage stability assessment (STVSA) in power systems. However, existing deep learning-based STVSA approaches face limitations in adapting to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Yang Li , Shitu Zhang , Yuanzheng Li , Jiting Cao , Shuyue Jia

We consider a power transmission system monitored with Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) placed at significant, but not all, nodes of the system. Assuming that a sufficient number of distinct single-line faults, specifically pre-fault state…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-08 Andrei Afonin , Michael Chertkov

A significant portion of the literature on fault localization assumes (more or less explicitly) that there are sufficient reliable measurements to guarantee that the system is observable. While several heuristics exist to break the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Mahdi Jamei , Anna Scaglione , Sean Peisert

Power domination is a graph-theoretic model for the observance of a power grid using phasor measurement units (PMUs). There are many costs associated with the installation of a PMU, but also costs associated with not observing the entire…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Beth Bjorkman , Sean English , Johnathan Koch

Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) are placed at strategic vertices in an electrical power network to monitor the flow of power. Determining the minimum number and optimal placement of PMUs is modeled by the graph theoretic process called…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Johnathan Koch , Beth Bjorkman

Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) are used in the measurement, control and protection of power grids. However, deploying PMUs at every bus in a power system is prohibitively expensive, necessitating partial PMU placement that can ensure…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-19 Sajjad Maleki , Subhash Lakshminarayana , E. Veronica Belmega , Carsten Maple

Installation of phasor measurement units (PMUs) in a number of substations in the power grid can help assess a set of its values and parameters, in particular those related to the dynamics when disturbances occur in the system. Inertia…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-19 Mohammadali Hayerikhiyavi , Aleksandar Dimitrovski

Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) are measurement devices long used in transmission systems and today even more essential for a proper monitoring of distribution grids. The expected massive penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-03 Carlo Guarnieri Calo\' Carducci , Gianluca Lipari , Nicola Giaquinto , Ferdinanda Ponci , Antonello Monti

We provide an open-access dataset of phasor & waveform measurement units (PMUs/WMUs) of a real-world electrical distribution network. The network consists of diverse sets of generation resources (including solar panels, fuel cells, natural…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Yiheng Xie , Lucien Werner , Kaibo Chen , Thuy-Linh Le , Christine Ortega , Steven Low

A tri-objective optimal Micro Phasor Measurement Units ({\mu}-PMUs) Placement method is presented, with a focus on minimizing the following three parameters: i) the total number of {\mu}-PMU channels, (ii) the maximum state estimation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-04 Arya Abdolahi , Navid Taghizadegan Kalantari

A cornerstone of the smart grid is the advanced monitorability on its assets and operations. Increasingly pervasive installation of the phasor measurement units (PMUs) allows the so-called synchrophasor measurements to be taken roughly 100…

Applications · Statistics 2017-08-17 Robert Qiu , Lei Chu , Xing He , Zenan Ling , Haichun Liu

The most commonly used weighted least square state estimator in power industry is nonlinear and formulated by using conventional measurements such as line flow and injection measurements. PMUs (Phasor Measurement Units) are gradually adding…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Hossein A. Sangrody , Mohammad Taghi Ameli

Sensors called phasor measurement units (PMUs) are used to monitor the electric power network. The power domination problem seeks to minimize the number of PMUs needed to monitor the network. We extend the power domination problem and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-24 Beth Bjorkman , Esther Conrad

Real-time transmission line outage detection is difficult because of partial phasor measurement unit (PMU) deployment and varying outage signal strength. Existing detection approaches focus on monitoring PMU-measured nodal algebraic states,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-28 Xiaozhou Yang , Nan Chen , Chao Zhai

Physical security of power networks under power injection attacks that alter generation and loads is studied. The system operator employs Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) for detecting such attacks, while attackers devise attacks that are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Yue Zhao , Andrea Goldsmith , H. Vincent Poor

Power systems incrementally and continuously upgrade their components, such as transmission lines, reactive capacitors, or generating units. Decision-making tools often support the selection of the best set of components to upgrade.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-13 Ilgiz Murzakhanov , David Pozo

This paper presents an innovative approach to micro-phasor measurement unit (micro-PMU) placement in unbalanced distribution networks. The methodology accounts for the presence of single-and-two-phase laterals and acknowledges the fact that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Reetam Sen Biswas , Behrouz Azimian , Anamitra Pal

Phasor measurement units (PMUs) enable better system monitoring and security enhancement in smart grids. In order to enhance power system resilience against outages and blackouts caused by extreme weather events or man-made attacks, it…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-16 Hamed Haggi , Wei Sun , Junjian Qi