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Data-Driven Learning-Based Optimization for Distribution System State Estimation

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Ahmed S. Zamzam
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Xiao Fu
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Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos *
DOI:10.1109/TPWRS.2019.2909150delete
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Distribution system state estimation (DSSE) is a core task for monitoring and control of distribution networks. Widely used algorithms such as Gauss-Newton perform poorly with the limited number of measurements typically available for DSSE, often require many iterations to obtain reasonable results, and sometimes fail to converge. DSSE is a non-convex problem, and working with a limited number of measurements further aggravates the situation, as indeterminacy induces multiple global (in addition to local) minima. Gauss-Newton is also known to be sensitive to initialization. Hence, the situation is far from ideal. It is therefore natural to ask if there is a smart way of initializing Gauss-Newton that will avoid these DSSE-specific pitfalls. This paper proposes using historical or simulation-derived data to train a shallow neural network to learn to initialize, that is, map the available measurements to a point in the neighborhood of the true latent states (network voltages), which is used to initialize Gauss-Newton. It is shown that this hybrid machine learning/optimization approach yields superior performance in terms of stability, accuracy, and runtime efficiency, compared to conventional optimization-only approaches. It is also shown that judicious design of the neural network training cost function helps to improve the overall DSSE performance.
Keywords:
Distribution network state estimation
phasor measurement units
machine learning
neural networks
Gauss-Newton
least squares approximation
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IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
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University of Minnesota Twin Cities
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