Predicting critical transitions from time series synchrophasor data

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1832-1840

  Cotilla Sanchez, Eduardo ^a   Hines, Paul D H ^b   Danforth, Christopher M ^b  

^a Oregon State University   (United States)

^b University of Vermont ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Criticality; power system monitoring; synchronized phasor measurements

Indexed keywords

BUS SYSTEMS; CRITICAL SLOWING DOWN; DETERMINISTIC MODELS; DYNAMICAL BEHAVIORS; FAST-SLOW SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORKS; MODEL-FREE METHOD; NORTH AMERICAN; POWER SYSTEM MONITORING; RANDOM PERTURBATIONS; STATISTICAL BEHAVIOR; SYNCHRONIZED PHASOR MEASUREMENTS; SYNCHROPHASORS; TEMPORAL DISTANCE; TIME-SERIES DATA; VOLTAGE COLLAPSE;

CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION); DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; PHASE MEASUREMENT; TIME SERIES;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 84872077841     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2012.2213848     Document Type: Article

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