Abstract
Modern control algorithms in the emerging power systems process information delivered mainly by distributed, synchronized measurement systems, and available in data streams with different reporting rates. Beyond existing measurement approaches currently embedded in SCADA framework and smart meters, there are more and more deployed high-reporting rate, synchronized measurement devices like phasor measurement units (PMUs). The talk will address the question of how adequate the state estimators are while using lossy information compression; the model uncertainty and measurement sources of errors and how to merge the measurement data streams obtained with different models of the phenomena to be controlled.
Presenter’s bio
Mihaela M. Albu is from Craiova, Romania. She graduated from Politehnica University of Bucharest (UPB) in 1987 and holds the Ph.D. degree (1998) from the same university. Since 2002 she has been Professor (Habil. 2016) of Electrical Engineering at UPB. She is a Senior Member of the IEEE and member of the IEEE IMS TC39, Instrumentation for the Power Systems. She is teaching courses on electrical measurements, signal processing and Smart Grids topics at both graduate and undergraduate programmes of UPB. Her research interests encompass synchronized measurements for wide area measurement and control systems; smart metering; DC and hybrid microgrids; power quality, IEEE and IEC standards in power. She has been P.I. of more than 40 research projects, funded by national and international research agencies, on measurements in smart grids topics. Since 2017 she is the member of the international steering committee for the microgrids symposium series. Her work includes coordination of a monograph (on measurements in power systems), more than 200 journal and conference papers. Dr Albu was spending a leave at Arizona State University as a Fulbright Fellow 2002 – 2003 and in 2010. Since 2016 she is nominated Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society.