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Design and Validation of a Very Low-Power Phasor Measurement Unit
Zachary J. Lythgoe, Thomas F. Long, Michael J. Buchholz +6
Phasor measurement units (PMUs) provide a high-resolution view of the power system at the locations where they are placed. As such, it is desirable to place them in bulk in low vol…
Data-Driven Flow and Injection Estimation in PMU-Unobservable Transmission Systems
Satyaprajna Sahoo, Anwarul Islam Sifat, Anamitra Pal
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 directl…
Time-Synchronized State Estimation Using Graph Neural Networks in Presence of Topology Changes
Shiva Moshtagh, Anwarul Islam Sifat, Behrouz Azimian +1
Recently, there has been a major emphasis on developing data-driven approaches involving machine learning (ML) for high-speed static state estimation (SE) in power systems. The emp…
Time-Synchronized Full System State Estimation Considering Practical Implementation Challenges
Antos Cheeramban Varghese, Hritik Shah, Behrouz Azimian +2
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 v…
Cascading Failures in Power Grids
Rounak Meyur
This paper studies the consequences of a human-initiated targeted attack on the national electric power system. We consider two kinds of attacks: () an attack by an adversary th…
Transmission Line Parameter Estimation Under Non-Gaussian Measurement Noise
Antos Cheeramban Varghese, Anamitra Pal, Gautam Dasarathy
Accurate knowledge of transmission line parameters is essential for a variety of power system monitoring, protection, and control applications. The use of phasor measurement unit (…
Representative Scenarios to Capture Renewable Generation Stochasticity and Cross-Correlations
Dhaval Dalal, Anamitra Pal, Philip Augustin
Generating representative scenarios for power system planning in which the stochasticity of renewable generation and cross-correlations between renewables and load are fully captur…
GPS Spoofing Attacks on Phasor Measurement Units: Practical Feasibility and Countermeasures
Fakhri Saadedeen, Anamitra Pal
Prior research has demonstrated that global positioning system (GPS) spoofing attacks on phasor measurement units (PMUs) can cripple power system operation. This paper provides an…
Mitigation of Saturated Cut-sets During Multiple Outages to Enhance Power System Security
Reetam Sen Biswas, Anamitra Pal, Trevor Werho +1
Ensuring reliable operation of large power systems subjected to multiple outages is a challenging task because of the combinatorial nature of the problem. Traditional approaches fo…
State and Topology Estimation for Unobservable Distribution Systems using Deep Neural Networks
Behrouz Azimian, Reetam Sen Biswas, Shiva Moshtagh +3
Time-synchronized state estimation for reconfigurable distribution networks is challenging because of limited real-time observability. This paper addresses this challenge by formul…
Statistical Characterization of Random Errors Present in Synchrophasor Measurements
Demetra Salls, Jairo Ramírez Torres, Antos Cheeramban Varghese +2
The statistical characterization of the measurement errors of a phasor measurement unit (PMU) is currently receiving considerable interest in the power systems community. This pape…
Time Synchronized State Estimation for Incompletely Observed Distribution Systems Using Deep Learning Considering Realistic Measurement Noise
Behrouz Azimian, Reetam Sen Biswas, Anamitra Pal +1
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 lea…
Identification of Utility-Scale Renewable Energy Penetration Threshold in a Dynamic Setting
Hashem Albhrani, Reetam Sen Biswas, Anamitra Pal
Integration of renewable energy resources with the electric grid is necessary for a sustainable energy future. However, increased penetration of inverter based resources (IBRs) red…
Fast Identification of Saturated Cut-sets using Graph Search Techniques
Reetam Sen Biswas, Anamitra Pal, Trevor Werho +1
When multiple outages occur in rapid succession, it is important to know quickly if the power transfer capability of different interconnections (or cut-sets) of the power network a…
A Micro-PMU Placement Scheme for Distribution Systems Considering Practical Constraints
Reetam Sen Biswas, Behrouz Azimian, Anamitra Pal
This paper presents an innovative approach to micro-phasor measurement unit (micro-PMU) placement in unbalanced distribution networks. The methodology accounts for the presence of…
A Graph Theoretic Approach to Power System Vulnerability Identification
Reetam Sen Biswas, Anamitra Pal, Trevor Werho +1
During major power system disturbances, when multiple component outages occur in rapid succession, it becomes crucial to quickly identify the transmission interconnections that hav…
Fast DTW and Fuzzy Clustering for Scenario Generation in Power System Planning Problems
Malhar Padhee, Anamitra Pal
Power system planning problems become computationally intractable if one accounts for all uncertain operating scenarios. Consequently, one selects a subset of scenarios that are re…
Optimal BESS Allocation in Large Transmission Networks Using Linearized BESS Models
Malhar Padhee, Anamitra Pal, Chetan Mishra +1
The most commonly used model for battery energy storage systems (BESSs) in optimal BESS allocation problems is a constant-efficiency model. However, the charging and discharging ef…
Adaptive LVRT Settings Adjustment for Enhancing Voltage Security of Renewable-Rich Electric Grids
Chen Wang, Chetan Mishra, Reetam Sen Biswas +2
Inverter based renewable generation (RG), especially at the distribution level, is supposed to trip offline during an islanding situation. However, islanding detection is done by c…
A New Model to Analyze Power and Communication System Intra-and-Inter Dependencies
Sohini Roy, Harish Chandrasekaran, Anamitra Pal +1
The reliable and resilient operation of the smart grid necessitates a clear understanding of the intra-and-inter dependencies of its power and communication systems. This understan…
Critical Clearing Time Sensitivity for Inequality Constrained Systems
Chetan Mishra, Reetam Sen Biswas, Anamitra Pal +1
With the growth of renewable generation (RG) and the development of associated ride through curves serving as operating limits, during disturbances, on violation of these limits, t…
Application of Machine Learning for Online Dynamic Security Assessment in Presence of System Variability and Additive Instrumentation Errors
Anubhav Nath, Reetam Sen Biswas, Anamitra Pal
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 synch…
A PMU Based Islanding Detection Scheme Immune to Additive Instrumentation Channel Errors
Meghna Barkakati, Reetam Sen Biswas, Anamitra Pal
Traditional synchrophasor measurement-based islanding detection techniques have primarily relied on voltage angle measurements and/or their derivatives for successfully detecting i…
Can Predictive Filters Detect Gradually Ramping False Data Injection Attacks Against PMUs?
Zhigang Chu, Andrea Pinceti, Reetam Sen Biswas +3
Intelligently designed false data injection (FDI) attacks have been shown to be able to bypass the -test based bad data detector (BDD), resulting in physical consequences (suc…