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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…
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Controllability and observability have long been recognized as fundamental structural properties of dynamical systems, but have recently seen renewed interest in the context of large, complex networks of dynamical systems. A basic problem…
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