RSRG Seminar

Monday, March 20, 2017

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Annenberg 213

Sensing and Strategies for Power Distribution System Situational Awareness

Raffi Sevlian, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University,

A major challenge in power systems will be the integration of advanced technologies, like electric vehicles and residential solar. These technologies pose challenges in the system since they inject highly variable and unpredictable bidirectional power flows leading to reliability and safety issues. To integrate these technologies successfully, the distribution system must improve its observability to enable controllability. This has been lacking in distribution systems where there has been little investment in sensing and situational awareness.

This dissertation focuses on the following timely and important question: How can we increase the observability of the distribution system in a cost effective manner?

To answer this question, we present three contributions:

1. A novel sensing modality, which dramatically improves the accuracy of low cost line, mounted voltage sensors.

2. A framework for distribution system situational awareness relying on the use of heterogeneous data streams.

3. Robust data driven methods to deal with these data streams for system observability.

For more information, please contact Daniel Guo by email at [email protected].

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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series

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