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Fast and accurate knowledge of power flows and power injections is needed for a variety of applications in the electric grid. Phasor measurement units (PMUs) can be used to directly compute them at high speeds; however, a large number of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Satyaprajna Sahoo , Anwarul Islam Sifat , Anamitra Pal

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

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

This paper considers the problem of fault detection and localization in active distribution networks using PMUs. The proposed algorithm consists in computing a set of weighted least squares state estimates whose results are used to detect,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-08 F. Conte , B. Gabriele , G. -P. Schiapparelli , F. Silvestro , C. Bossi , M. Cabiati

Increased adoption and deployment of phasor measurement units (PMU) has provided valuable fine-grained data over the grid. Analysis over these data can provide insight into the health of the grid, thereby improving control over operations.…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-05-26 Ben McCamish , Rich Meier , Jordan Landford , Robert Bass , Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez , David Chiu

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

We consider a power transmission system monitored with Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) placed at significant, but not all, nodes of the system. Assuming that a sufficient number of distinct single-line faults, specifically pre-fault state…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-08 Andrei Afonin , Michael Chertkov

The Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) is an important metering device for smart grid. Like any other Intelligent Electronic Device (IED), PMUs are prone to various types of cyberattacks. However, one form of attack is unique to the PMU, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-14 Imtiaj Khan , Virgilio Centeno

The wide-area measurement system (WAMS) consists of the future power system, increasing geographical sprawl which is linked by the Phasor measurement unit(PMU). Thus, the failure of PMU will cause severe results, such as a blackout of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Evan Carollo , Zikai Xu

Synchrophasor technology is an emerging and developing technology for monitoring and control of wide area measurement systems (WAMS). In an elementary WAMS, two identical phasors measured at two different locations have difference in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Nisarg Trivedi

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

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

Large-scale blackouts that have occurred in the past few decades have necessitated the need to do extensive research in the field of grid security assessment. With the aid of synchrophasor technology, which uses phasor measurement unit…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-11 Anubhav Nath , Reetam Sen Biswas , Anamitra Pal

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

As the phasor measurement unit (PMU) placement problem involves a cost-benefit trade-off, more PMUs get placed on the higher voltage buses. However, this causes many of the lower voltage levels of the bulk power system to not be observed by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-22 Antos Cheeramban Varghese , Hritik Shah , Behrouz Azimian , Anamitra Pal , Evangelos Farantatos

Recent research has shown that the security of power grids can be seriously threatened by botnet-type cyber attacks that target a large number of high-wattage smart electrical appliances owned by end-users. Accurate detection and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Hamidreza Jahangir , Subhash Lakshminarayana , Carsten Maple

Abnormal event detection is critical in the safe operation of power system. In this paper, using the data collected from phasor measurement units (PMUs), two methods based on Fisher random matrix are proposed to detect faults in power…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-10 Ke Chen , Dandan Jiang , Bo Wang , Hongxia Wang

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

The analogous deployment of phase measurement units (PMUs), the increase of data quantum and the deregulation of energy market, all call for the robust state evaluation in large scale power systems. Implementing model based estimators is…

Applications · Statistics 2017-06-23 Lei Chu , Robert Qiu , Xing He , Zenan Ling , Yadong Liu

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