Distributed State Estimation Using a Modified Partitioned Moving Horizon Strategy for Power Systems

In this paper, a distributed state estimation method based on moving horizon estimation (MHE) is proposed for the large-scale power system state estimation. The proposed method partitions the power systems into several local areas with non-overlapping states. Unlike the centralized approach where al...

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Main Authors: Chen, Tengpeng, Chen, Xuebing, Foo, Eddy Yi Shyh, Ling, Keck Voon
Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/87054
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44301
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:In this paper, a distributed state estimation method based on moving horizon estimation (MHE) is proposed for the large-scale power system state estimation. The proposed method partitions the power systems into several local areas with non-overlapping states. Unlike the centralized approach where all measurements are sent to a processing center, the proposed method distributes the state estimation task to the local processing centers where local measurements are collected. Inspired by the partitioned moving horizon estimation (PMHE) algorithm, each local area solves a smaller optimization problem to estimate its own local states by using local measurements and estimated results from its neighboring areas. In contrast with PMHE, the error from the process model is ignored in our method. The proposed modified PMHE (mPMHE) approach can also take constraints on states into account during the optimization process such that the influence of the outliers can be further mitigated. Simulation results on the IEEE 14-bus and 118-bus systems verify that our method achieves comparable state estimation accuracy but with a significant reduction in the overall computation load.