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Power domination is a graph theoretic model which captures how phasor measurement units (PMUs) can be used to monitor a power grid. Fragile power domination takes into account the fact that PMUs may break or otherwise fail. In this model,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Beth Bjorkman , Sean English , Johnathan Koch , Amanda Verga

The power domination problem seeks to determine the minimum number of phasor measurement units (PMUs) needed to monitor an electric power network. We introduce random sensor failure before the power domination process occurs and call this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Beth Bjorkman , Zachary Brennan , Mary Flagg , Johnathan Koch

The phasor measurement unit (PMU) placement problem is revisited by taking into account a stronger characterization of the electrical connectedness between various buses in the grid. To facilitate this study, the placement problem is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-05-19 K. G. Nagananda , Shalinee Kishore , Rick S. Blum

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

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

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

New methods that exploit sparse structures arising in smart grid networks are proposed for the state estimation problem when data injection attacks are present. First, construction strategies for unobservable sparse data injection attacks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Mete Ozay , Inaki Esnaola , Fatos T. Yarman Vural , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni , H. Vincent Poor

This research proposes a machine learning-based attack detection model for power systems, specifically targeting smart grids. By utilizing data and logs collected from Phasor Measuring Devices (PMUs), the model aims to learn system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Diane Tuyizere , Remy Ihabwikuzo

Meter measurements in the power grid are susceptible to manipulation by adversaries, that can lead to errors in state estimation. This paper presents a general framework to study attacks on state estimation by adversaries capable of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Deepjyoti Deka , Ross Baldick , Sriram Vishwanath

Due to the vulnerability of civilian global positioning system (GPS) signals, the accuracy of phasor measurement units (PMUs) can be greatly compromised by GPS spoofing attacks (GSAs), which introduce phase shifts into true phase angle…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-26 Ying Zhang , Jianhui Wang , Jianzhe Liu

This paper studies the vulnerability of phasor measurement units (PMUs) to false data injection (FDI) attacks. Prior work demonstrated that unobservable FDI attacks that can bypass traditional bad data detectors based on measurement…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Jiazi Zhang , Zhigang Chu , Lalitha Sankar , Oliver Kosut

This paper introduces an algorithm able to detect and localize the occurrance of a fault in an Active Distribution Network, using the measurements collected by Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs). First, a basic algorithm that works under the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-13 Francesco Conte , Fabio D'Agostino , Bruno Gabriele , Giacomo-Piero Schiapparelli , Federico Silvestro

Real-time transient event identification is essential for power system situational awareness and protection. The increased penetration of Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) enhance power system visualization and real time monitoring and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-04 Rui Ma , Sagnik Basumallik , Sara Eftekharnejad

The resilience of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems for electric power networks for certain cyber-attacks is considered. We analyze the vulnerability of the measurement system to false data attack on communicated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-18 Julien M. Hendrickx , Karl Henrik Johansson , Raphael M. Jungers , Henrik Sandberg , Kin Cheong Sou

This paper presents an information-theoretic approach to address the phasor measurement unit (PMU) placement problem in electric power systems. Different from the conventional 'topological observability' based approaches, this paper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-01-16 Qiao Li , Tao Cui , Yang Weng , Rohit Negi , Franz Franchetti , Marija D. Ilic

Potential vulnerabilities in a power grid can be exposed by identifying those transmission lines on which attacks (in the form of interference with their transmission capabilities) causes maximum disruption to the grid. In this study, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-10 Taedong Kim , Stephen J. Wright , Daniel Bienstock , Sean Harnett

The problem of imbalance detection in a three-phase power system using a phasor measurement unit (PMU) is considered. A general model for the zero, positive, and negative sequences from a PMU measurement at off-nominal frequencies is…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-18 Tirza Routtenberg , Yao Xie , Rebecca M. Willett , Lang Tong

The impact of Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) for providing situational awareness to transmission system operators has been widely documented. Micro-PMUs ($\mu$PMUs) are an emerging sensing technology that can provide similar benefits to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Mahdi Jamei , Anna Scaglione , Ciaran Roberts , Emma Stewart , Sean Peisert , Chuck McParland , Alex McEachern

With the continued deployment of synchronized Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs), high sample rate data are rapidly increasing the real time observability of power systems. Prior research has shown that the statistics of these data can provide…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Samuel Chevalier , Paul D. H. Hines

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