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The necessary integration of renewable energy sources, combined with the expanding scale of power networks, presents significant challenges in controlling modern power grids. Traditional control systems, which are human and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Carlo Fabrizio , Gianvito Losapio , Marco Mussi , Alberto Maria Metelli , Marcello Restelli

This paper proposes graph analysis methods to fully automate the fault location identification task in power distribution systems. The proposed methods take basic unordered data from power distribution systems as input, including branch…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-23 Ali Shakeri Kahnamouei , Saeed Lotfifard

Load flow analysis is a fundamental technique used by electrical engineers to simulate and evaluate power system behavior under steady-state conditions. It enables efficient operation and control by determining how active and reactive power…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Sampson E. Nwachukwu

Time-synchronized state estimation is a challenge for distribution systems because of limited real-time observability. This paper addresses this challenge by formulating a deep learning (DL)-based approach to perform unbalanced three-phase…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Behrouz Azimian , Reetam Sen Biswas , Anamitra Pal , Lang Tong

This chapter aspires to glean some of the recent advances in power system state estimation (PSSE), though our collection is not exhaustive by any means. The Cram{\'e}r-Rao bound, a lower bound on the (co)variance of any unbiased estimator,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Vassilis Kekatos , Gang Wang , Hao Zhu , Georgios B. Giannakis

This paper studies the distributed state estimation problem for a class of discrete-time stochastic systems with nonlinear uncertain dynamics over time-varying topologies of sensor networks. An extended state vector consisting of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Xingkang He , Xiaocheng Zhang , Wenchao Xue , Haitao Fang

Solving the alternating current power flow equations in real time is essential for secure grid operation, yet classical Newton-Raphson solvers can be slow under stressed conditions. Existing graph neural networks for power flow are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Chidozie Ezeakunne , Jose E. Tabarez , Reeju Pokharel , Anup Pandey

Modern power systems face significant challenges in state estimation and real-time monitoring, particularly regarding response speed and accuracy under faulty conditions or cyber-attacks. This paper proposes a hybrid approach using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Solon Falas , Markos Asprou , Charalambos Konstantinou , Maria K. Michael

Accurate short-term state forecasting is essential for efficient and stable operation of modern power systems, especially in the context of increasing variability introduced by renewable and distributed energy resources. As these systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Raffael Theiler , Olga Fink

This paper studies attack-resilient estimation of a class of switched nonlinear systems subject to stochastic noises. The systems are threatened by both of signal attacks and switching attacks. The problem is formulated as the joint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-09 Hunmin Kim , Pinyao Guo , Minghui Zhu , Peng Liu

Fault detection in power distribution grids is critical for ensuring system reliability and preventing costly outages. Moreover, fault detection methodologies should remain robust to evolving grid topologies caused by factors such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Burak Karabulut , Carlo Manna , Chris Develder

Graph Neural Networks have achieved impressive results across diverse network modeling tasks, but accurately estimating uncertainty on graphs remains difficult, especially under distributional shifts. Unlike traditional uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Fred Xu , Thomas Markovich

The impedances of cables and lines used in (multi-conductor) distribution networks are usually unknown or approximated, and may lead to problematic results for any physics-based power system calculation, e.g., (optimal) power flow. Learning…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-06 Marta Vanin , Frederik Geth , Rahmat Heidari , Dirk Van Hertem

This work presents a novel general regularized distributed solution for the state estimation problem in networked systems. Resting on the graph-based representation of sensor networks and adopting a multivariate least-squares approach, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-17 Marco Fabris , Giulia Michieletto , Angelo Cenedese

This paper proposes a distributed diagnosis scheme to detect and estimate actuator and power line faults in DC microgrids (e.g., electric-vehicle charging microgrids) subject to unknown power loads and stochastic noise. To address actuator…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Jingwei Dong , Mahdieh S. Sadabadi , Per Mattsson , André Teixeira

This paper proposes a state estimator for large-scale linear systems described by the interaction of state-coupled subsystems affected by bounded disturbances. We equip each subsystem with a Local State Estimator (LSE) for the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-09-10 Stefano Riverso , Marcello Farina , Riccardo Scattolini , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

Accurate state estimation is critical for optimal policy design in dynamic systems. However, obtaining true system states is often impractical or infeasible, complicating the policy learning process. This paper introduces a novel neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Ashik E Rasul , Hyung-Jin Yoon

Accurate power system state estimation (PSSE) is an essential prerequisite for reliable operation of power systems. Different from static PSSE, dynamic PSSE can exploit past measurements based on a dynamical state evolution model, offering…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Gang Wang , Seung-Jun Kim , Georgios B. Giannakis

This paper introduces a two-level robust approach to estimate the unknown states of a large-scale power system while the measurements and network parameters are subjected to uncertainties. The bounded data uncertainty (BDU) considered in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-14 Shiva Moshtagh , Mehdi Rahmani

This article investigates the ability of graph neural networks (GNNs) to identify risky conditions in a power grid over the subsequent few hours, without explicit, high-resolution information regarding future generator on/off status (grid…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Yadong Zhang , Pranav M Karve , Sankaran Mahadevan