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PMU-based linear state estimation of Lausanne subtransmission network: Experimental validation

Mario Paolone, Asja Derviskadic, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Paolo Romano, Marco Pignati, Lorenzo Zanni, Ali Abur

The paper presents the implementation details and the experimental validation of a linear state estimator based on synchrophasor measurements in a real subtransmission network. The data are provided by 15 phasor measurement units (PMUs) installed in the 12 ...

Elsevier2020

Design and Experimental Validation of an LTE-Based Synchrophasor Network in a Medium Voltage Distribution Grid

Mario Paolone, Asja Derviskadic, Paolo Romano, Marco Pignati, Lorenzo Zanni

We present and experimentally validate in a real-scale medium voltage (MV) grid a synchrophasor network that exploits the availability of a public 4G LTE communication infrastructure. An 18 buses, 10 kV feeder located in Huissen, The Netherlands, has been ...

Power Systems Computation Conference2018

Fault Detection and Faulted Line Identification in Active Distribution Networks Using Synchrophasors-based Real-Time State Estimation

Mario Paolone, Paolo Romano, Marco Pignati, Lorenzo Zanni, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui

We intend to prove that PMU-based state estimation processes for active distribution networks exhibit unique time determinism and refresh rate that make them suitable to satisfy the time-critical requirements of protections as well as the accuracy requirem ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Power-System State Estimation based on PMUs : Static and Dynamic Approaches - from Theory to Real Implementation

Lorenzo Zanni

An increasing number of phasor measurement units (PMUs) are being deployed in power systems in order to enhance the situational awareness and, in the near future, we expect that many networks will be extensively equipped with PMUs. These devices provide ac ...

EPFL2017

Method and System for Fault Detection and Faulted Line Identification in Power Systems using Synchrophasors-Based Real-Time State Estimation

Mario Paolone, Paolo Romano, Marco Pignati, Lorenzo Zanni

A method for a faulted line identification in a power network, including, at a generic time-instant, solving a plurality of parallel phasor measurement units based real-time state estimators, the state estimators having among each other different and augme ...

2017

A Prediction-Error Covariance Estimator for Adaptive Kalman Filtering in Step-Varying Processes: Application to Power-System State Estimation

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Mario Paolone, Lorenzo Zanni, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui

In this paper, we present a new method for the estimation of the prediction-error covariances of a Kalman filter (KF), which is suitable for step-varying processes. The method uses a series of past innovations (i.e., the difference between the upcoming mea ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Performance Assessment of Linear State Estimators Using Synchrophasor Measurements

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Mario Paolone, Lorenzo Zanni, Styliani Sarri, Miroslav Popovic

This paper aims to assess the performance of linear state estimation (SE) processes of power systems relying on synchrophasor measurements. The performance assessment is conducted with respect to two different families of SE algorithms, i.e., static ones r ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Architecture and characterization of a calibrator for PMUs operating in power distribution systems

Mario Paolone, Paolo Romano, Marco Pignati, Lorenzo Zanni, Daniele Colangelo, Jean-Pierre Braun

In recent years, the Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) technology is rapidly evolving towards the potential deployment also in power distribution systems (DSs). In general, this specific field of applications requires PMUs whose accuracy levels are beyond thos ...

IEEE2015

Real-Time State Estimation of the EPFL-Campus Medium-Voltage Grid by Using PMUs

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Mario Paolone, Dan-Cristian Tomozei, Paolo Romano, Marco Pignati, Lorenzo Zanni, Sergio Barreto Andrade, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Teklemariam Tsegay Tesfay, Styliani Sarri

We describe the real-time monitoring infrastructure of the smart-grid pilot on the EPFL campus. We experimentally validate the concept of a real-time state-estimation for a 20 kV active distribution network. We designed and put into operation the whole inf ...

2015

Impact of synchrophasor measurement types and uncertainties on the accuracy of distribution system linear state estimators

Mario Paolone, Lorenzo Zanni, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Daniele Colangelo

The paper aims at assessing the effects of combined voltage and/or current synchrophasor measurements, and their associated uncertainties, on the accuracy of state estimators adopted in distribution systems. Such an assessment is first carried out with res ...

IEEE2015