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Phasor measurement units (PMUs) can be effectively utilized for the monitoring and control of the power grid. As the cyber-world becomes increasingly embedded into power grids, the risks of this inevitable evolution become serious. In this…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Ahmad F. Taha , Junjian Qi , Jianhui Wang , Jitesh H. Panchal

Dynamic state and parameter estimation methods for dynamic security assessment in power systems are becoming increasingly important for system operators. Usually, the data used for this type of applications stems from phasor measurement…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-01 Nicolai Lorenz-Meyer , René Suchantke , Johannes Schiffer

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

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 2023-12-13 Beth Bjorkman , Esther Conrad , Mary Flagg

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

We consider the problem of PMU-based state estimation combining information coming from ubiquitous power demand time series and only a limited number of PMUs. Conversely to recent literature in which synchrophasor devices are often assumed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Marco Todescato , Ruggero Carli , Luca Schenato , Grazia Barchi

The use of phasor angle measurements provided by phasor measurement units (PMUs) in fault detection is regarded as a promising method in identifying locations of power line outages. However, communication errors or system malfunctions may…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Wen-Tai Li , Chao-Kai Wen , Jung-Chieh Chen , Kai-Kit Wong , Jen-Hao Teng , Chau Yuen

We propose a novel decentralized mixed algebraic and dynamic state observation method for multi-machine power systems with unknown inputs and equipped with Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs). More specifically, we prove that for the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-11 M. Nicolai L. Lorenz-Meyer , Alexey A. Bobtsov , Romeo Ortega , Nikolay Nikolaev , Johannes Schiffer

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

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

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-08 Shanny Lin , Hao Zhu

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

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

Optimal sensor placement is essential for minimizing costs and ensuring accurate state estimation in power systems. This paper introduces a novel method for optimal sensor placement for dynamic state estimation of power systems modeled by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-06 Milos Katanic , Yi Guo , John Lygeros , Gabriela Hug

Widely available measurement equipment in electrical distribution grids, such as power-quality measurement devices, substation meters, or customer smart meters do not provide phasor measurements due to the lack of high resolution time…

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

In this paper, we present a data-driven Forward Selection with Neighborhood Refinement (FSNR) algorithm to determine the number and placement of Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) for maximizing deep-learning-based fault diagnosis performance.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Khalid Daud Khattak , Muhammad A. Choudhry

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

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

The statistical characterization of the measurement errors of a phasor measurement unit (PMU) is currently receiving considerable interest in the power systems community. This paper focuses on the characteristics of the errors in magnitude…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-18 Demetra Salls , Jairo Ramírez Torres , Antos Cheeramban Varghese , John Patterson , Anamitra Pal