Optimal Allocation of Phasor Measurement Units Considering Various Contingencies and Measurement Redundancy

• Published in: IEEE transactions on instrumentation and measurement Vol. 69; no. 6; pp. 3403 - 3411
• Main Authors: Manousakis, Nikolaos M., Korres, George N.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.06.2020; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Branch outage; Current measurement; Integer programming; Linear matrix inequalities; linear matrix inequality (LMI); Linear programming; Loss measurement; Measuring instruments; numerical observability; Observability; Observability (systems); optimal PMU placement (OPP); Optimization; phasor measurement unit (PMU); Phasor measurement units; Phasors; Placement; PMU loss; Redundancy; Semidefinite programming; semidefinite programming (SDP); State estimation

This article presents an efficient and comprehensive method to find out the minimum number of and the corresponding locations of phasor measurement units (PMUs) guaranteeing full numerical observability of a power system as well as maximize the measurement redundancy in conjunction with preexisting...