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Phasor measurement units (PMUs) provide accurate and high-fidelity measurements in order to monitor the state of the power grid and support various control and planning tasks. However, PMUs have a high installation cost prohibiting their…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Saptarshi Ghosh , Murali Sankar Venkatraman , Shehab Ahmed , Charalambos Konstantinou

Anomaly detection is concerned with identifying data patterns that deviate remarkably from the expected behaviour. This is an important research problem, due to its broad set of application domains, from data analysis to e-health,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-23 L. Erhan , M. Ndubuaku , M. Di Mauro , W. Song , M. Chen , G. Fortino , O. Bagdasar , A. Liotta

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 deep learning approach is proposed to detect data and system anomalies using high-resolution continuous point-on-wave (CPOW) or phasor measurements. Both the anomaly and anomaly-free measurement models are assumed to have unknown temporal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-24 Kursat Rasim Mestav , Xinyi Wang , Lang Tong

The main subject of this paper is the sensing of network anomalies that span from harmless impedance changes at some network termination to more or less pronounced electrical faults, considering also cable degradation over time. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-21 Federico Passerini , Andrea M. Tonello

Phasor measurement units (PMUs) provide high-fidelity data that improve situation awareness of electric power grid operations. PMU datastreams inform wide-area state estimation, monitor area control error, and facilitate event detection in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-24 Jun Jiang , Xuan Liu , Scott Wallace , Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez , Robert Bass , Xinghui Zhao

Smart grid data can be evaluated for anomaly detection in numerous fields, including cyber-security, fault detection, electricity theft, etc. The strange anomalous behaviors may have been caused by various reasons, including peculiar…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Shampa Banik , Sohag Kumar Saha , Trapa Banik , S M Mostaq Hossain

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

Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) generate high-frequency, time-synchronized data essential for real-time power grid monitoring, yet the growing scale of PMU deployments creates significant challenges in latency, scalability, and reliability.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Nachiappan Chockalingam , Akshay Deshpande , Lokesh Butra , Ram Sekhar Bodala , Nitin Saksena , Adithya Parthasarathy , Balakrishna Pothineni , Akash Kumar Agarwal

World Health Organization (WHO) provides the guideline for managing the Particulate Matter (PM) level because when the PM level is higher, it threats the human health. For managing PM level, the procedure for measuring PM value is needed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-17 YeongHyeon Park , Won Seok Park , Yeong Beom Kim

Unveiling feeder topologies from data is of paramount importance to advance situational awareness and proper utilization of smart resources in power distribution grids. This tutorial summarizes, contrasts, and establishes useful links…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-01 Deepjyoti Deka , Vassilis Kekatos , Guido Cavraro

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

Time-synchronization attacks on phasor measurement units (PMU) pose a real threat to smart grids; it was shown that they are feasible in practice and that they can have a non-negligible negative impact on the state estimation, without…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Marguerite Delcourt , Jean-Yves Le Boudec

Today, microgrids in distribution networks are in dire need of improvement to cope with economic challenges, human losses, and equipment placement issues. Today, there is the issue of scattered resources in distribution systems, which has…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-29 Zeyad Khashroum , Ali Dehghan Chaharabi , Lorena Palmero , Keiichiro Yasukawa

The proliferation of phasor measurement units (PMUs) into electric power distribution grids presents new opportunities for utility operators to manage distribution systems more effectively. One potential application of PMU measurements is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-27 Michael D. Sankur , Roel Dobbe , Alexandra von Meier , Emma M. Stewart , Daniel B. Arnold

It is important for detecting the anomaly in power systems before it expands and causes serious faults such as power failures or system blackout. With the deployments of phasor measurement units (PMUs), massive amounts of synchrophasor…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-25 Xin Shi , Robert Qiu

This paper proposes a novel phase identification method for distribution networks where phases can be severely unbalanced and insufficiently labeled. The analysis approach draws on data from high-precision phasor measurement units…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-01-19 Miles H. F. Wen , Reza Arghandeh , Alexandra von Meier , Kameshwar Poolla , Victor O. K. Li

The recent introduction of synchrophasor technology into power distribution systems has given impetus to various monitoring, diagnostic, and control applications, such as system identification and event detection, which are crucial for…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Omid Ardakanian , Ye Yuan , Roel Dobbe , Alexandra von Meier , Steven Low , Claire Tomlin

In this paper, we study the placement of Phasor Measurement Units (PMU) for enhancing hybrid state estimation via the traditional Gauss-Newton method, which uses measurements from both PMU devices and Supervisory Control and Data…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Xiao Li , Anna Scaglione , Tsung-Hui Chang

Modern smart grids rely on dense measurement infrastructures, communication links, and intelligent field devices. Although this improves supervision and control, it also increases vulnerability to cyber-physical disruptions. Operators must…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Adis Alihodžić , Eva Tuba , Milan Tuba