2021/05/11 by Alessandro Zocca, Chen Liang, Zocca, Alessandro +7
Engineering · #Advanced Optical Network Technologies #FOS: Electrical engineering #FOS: Mathematics #FOS: Physical sciences #Microgrid Control and Optimization #Optimal Power Flow Distribution #Optimization and Control (math.OC) #Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph) #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2105.05234
openalex publication_date 2021/05/11 · openalex created_date 2022/07/25 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
Transmission line failures in power systems propagate and cascade non-locally. This well-known yet counter-intuitive feature makes it even more challenging to optimally and reliably operate these complex networks. In this work we present a comprehensive framework based on spectral graph theory that fully and rigorously captures how multiple simultaneous line failures propagate, distinguishing between non-cut and cut set outages. Using this spectral representation of power systems, we identify the crucial graph sub-structure that ensures line failure localization -- the network bridge-block decomposition. Leveraging this theory, we propose an adaptive network topology reconfiguration paradigm that uses a two-stage algorithm where the first stage aims to identify optimal clusters using the notion of network modularity and the second stage refines the clusters by means of optimal line switching actions. Our proposed methodology is illustrated using extensive numerical examples on standard IEEE networks and we discussed several extensions and variants of the proposed algorithm.