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Wide Area Measurement Systems (WAMS) can guide system operators' to increase their situational awareness by expanding observability of their supervise area and adjoining systems. Power system oscillations in the electrical grid are a matter…
As the distribution grid moves toward a tightly-monitored network, it is important to automate the analysis of the enormous amount of data produced by the sensors to increase the operators situational awareness about the system. In this…
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…
Ensuring secure and reliable operations of the power grid is a primary concern of system operators. Phasor measurement units (PMUs) are rapidly being deployed in the grid to provide fast-sampled operational data that should enable quicker…
In this paper we present novel methodology for automatic anomaly and switch event filtering to improve load estimation in power grid systems. By leveraging unsupervised methods with supervised optimization, our approach prioritizes…
The widespread deployment of phasor measurement unit (PMU) overpower systems makes it possible to monitor and analyze grid dynamics in real-time. Low-frequency oscillation is harmful to power system equipment and operation, and in the…
Agile localization of anomalous events plays a pivotal role in enhancing the overall reliability of the grid and avoiding cascading failures. This is especially of paramount significance in the large-scale grids due to their geographical…
Localizing sources of troublesome oscillations, particularly forced oscillations (FOs), in power systems has received considerable attention over the last few years. This is driven in part by the massive deployment of phasor measurement…
The number and intensity of forest fires in the United States have been steadily increasing and causing massive economic and ecological damage. Overhead transmission and distribution lines are typically disconnected preemptively near fires,…
Fault analysis and bad data are often processed in separate manners. In this paper it is proved that fault as well as bad current measurement data can be modeled as control failure for the power transmission network and any fault on the…
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…
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…
To provide real-time visibility of physics-based states, phasor measurement units (PMUs) are deployed throughout power networks. PMU data enable real-time grid monitoring and control -- and are essential in transitioning to smarter grids.…
This paper develops a comprehensive framework of Area Angle Monitoring (AAM) to monitor the stress of bulk power transfer across an area of a power transmission system in real-time. Area angle is calculated from synchrophasor measurements…
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…
The paper describes a distributed under-frequency load shedding and load restoration scheme, that exploits frequency and Rate-of-Change-of-Frequency (ROCOF) measurements produced by Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) as detectors of a large…
Many operations in power grids, such as fault detection and event location estimation, depend on precise timing information. In this paper, a novel Time Synchronization Attack (TSA) is proposed to attack the timing information in smart…
In modern smart grids deployed with various advanced sensors, e.g., phasor measurement units (PMUs), bad (anomalous) measurements are always inevitable in practice. Considering the imperative need for filtering out potential bad data, this…
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…
We show how to use standard transmission line outage historical data to obtain the network topology in such a way that cascades of line outages can be easily located on the network. Then we obtain statistics quantifying how cascading…