Title
Phasor Measurement Units Optimal Placement and Performance Limits for Fault Localization
Abstract
In this paper, the performance limits of faults localization are investigated using synchrophasor data. The focus is on a non-trivial operating regime where the number of Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) sensors available is insufficient to have full observability of the grid state. Proposed analysis uses the Kullback Leibler (KL) divergence between the distributions corresponding to different fault location hypotheses associated with the observation model. This analysis shows that the most likely locations are concentrated in clusters of buses more tightly connected to the actual fault site akin to graph communities. Consequently, a PMU placement strategy is derived that achieves a near-optimal resolution for localizing faults for a given number of sensors. The problem is also analyzed from the perspective of sampling a graph signal, and how the placement of the PMUs i.e. the spatial sampling pattern and the topological characteristic of the grid affect the ability to successfully localize faults. To highlight the superior performance of presented fault localization and placement algorithms, the proposed strategy is applied to a modified IEEE 34, IEEE-123 bus test cases and to data from a real distribution grid. Additionally, the detection of cyber-physical attacks is also examined where PMU data and relevant Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) network traffic information are compared to determine if a network breach has affected the integrity of the system information and/or operations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/JSAC.2019.2951971
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Phasor measurement units,Voltage measurement,Sensors,Circuit faults,Current measurement,Observability,Fault location
Units of measurement,Mahdi,Computer science,Phasor,Real-time computing,Electrical engineering
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
38
1
0733-8716
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.42
0
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mahdi Jamei1203.81
Raksha Ramakrishna263.65
Teklemariam Tsegay Tesfay3343.72
Reinhard Gentz4203.69
Ciaran Roberts530.76
Anna Scaglione62559225.41
Sean Peisert724631.44