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Over the last few decades, extensive use of information and communication technologies has been the main driver of the digitalization of power systems. Proper and secure monitoring of the critical grid infrastructure became an integral part…
In modern distribution systems, load uncertainty can be fully captured by micro-PMUs, which can record high-resolution data; however, in practice, micro-PMUs are installed at limited locations in distribution networks due to budgetary…
In this document, the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and phasor measurement unit (PMU) measurement chain modeling will be studied, where the measurement error sources of each component in the SCADA and PMU measurement…
Accurately modeling power distribution grids is crucial for designing effective monitoring and decision making algorithms. This paper addresses the partial observability issue of data-driven distribution modeling in order to improve the…
Smart electrical grids rely on data communication to support their operation and on sensing for diagnostics and maintenance. Usually, the roles of communication and sensing equipment are different, i.e., communication equipment does not…
A new data-driven method is proposed to detect events in the data streams from distribution-level phasor measurement units, a.k.a., micro-PMUs. The proposed method is developed by constructing unsupervised deep learning anomaly detection…
Prior research has shown that spectral decomposition of the reduced power flow Jacobian (RPFJ) can yield participation factors that describe the extent to which particular buses contribute to particular spectral components of a power…
Machine learning (ML)-assisted outage-based resource allocation has recently emerged as an effective alternative to conventional scheduling methods in reliability-critical wireless systems. However, existing approaches are fundamentally…
Fast dynamics and transient events are becoming more and more frequent in power systems, due to the high penetration of renewable energy sources and the consequent lack of inertia. In this scenario, Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) are…
With the development of PMUs in power systems, the response-based real-time emergency control becomes a promising way to prevent power outages when power systems are subjected to large disturbances. The first step in the emergency control…
Machine learning (ML) algorithms are remarkably good at approximating complex non-linear relationships. Most ML training processes, however, are designed to deliver ML tools with good average performance, but do not offer any guarantees…
An electric power distribution system is operated in several distinct radial topologies by opening and closing of system's sectionalizing and tie switches. The estimation of the system's current operational topology is a precursor to…
A reliable supply with electric power is vital for our society. Transmission line failures are among the biggest threats for power grid stability as they may lead to a splitting of the grid into mutual asynchronous fragments. New conceptual…
This letter proposes an alternative underdetermined framework for fault location that utilizes current measurements along with the branch-bus matrix, providing another option besides the traditional voltage-based methods. To enhance fault…
Power grids are one of the most important components of infrastructure in today's world. Every nation is dependent on the security and stability of its own power grid to provide electricity to the households and industries. A malfunction of…
Uncalibrated instrument transformers (ITs) can degrade the performance of downstream applications that rely on the voltage and current measurements that ITs provide. It is also well-known that phasor measurement unit (PMU)-based system-wide…
In this paper, we examine the outage performance of a cognitive relay network, which is comprised of a secondary transmitter (ST), multiple decode-and-forward (DF) relays and a secondary destination (SD). We propose a multi-relay selection…
In this paper, we present a novel data-driven approach to detect outage events in partially observable distribution systems by capturing the changes in smart meters' (SMs) data distribution. To achieve this, first, a breadth-first search…
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…
Modeling protective relays is crucial for performing accurate stability studies as they play a critical role in defining the dynamic responses of power systems during disturbances. Nevertheless, due to the current limitations of stability…