SBIR Phase I: A Robust Real-time Topology Estimator for Power Grids

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目的目的是开发一种新的电力系统运行状态估计。研究目标是开发一个商业化的状态估计软件包，并在不同的电力系统，包括真实的系统进行测试。这项研究将使用图论，线性代数和高维统计技术。这项研究的新奇在于将这些不同学科的前沿思想结合在一起，以解决电力行业当前状态估计器的鲁棒性问题。预期的技术成果包括一个商业化的软件包，大大提高了系统监测，从而提高了电力系统的运行安全性。该项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力包括：1）目标问题（电力系统状态估计器）在现代电网或智能电网中是极其关键的，并且如果处理得当，可以帮助防止系统范围的故障或停电，2）所提出的方法的商业化的确定性获得了重要的NSF支持，因为所提供的解决方案对于实时应用来说足够快，并且与现有的状态估计器相比，新的状态估计器不要求额外的输入或要求，3）由技术人员和营销人员组成的研究团队，确保产品销售的成功，4）建议的方法的独特性，它为市场提供了替代技术无法满足的竞争优势，并可以吸引来自非SBIR的来源和结果直接销售给电力行业，5）所提出的方法开发了一个独特的公式/解决方案的状态估计，这很可能导致进一步的创新，6）新的程序所提出的方法基于独特的公式和独特的哲学可以促进教学，在状态估计领域的培训和学习。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project aims to develop a novel state estimator for power system operations. The research objectives are to develop a commercialized software package of state estimation and conduct testing on different power systems including real systems. This research will use techniques from graph theory, linear algebra, and high dimensional statistics. The novelty of the research is in bringing together cutting-edge ideas from these diverse disciplines to solve the problem of robustness in current state estimators used in power industry. The anticipated technical results include a commercialized software package that largely improves the system monitoring and therefore the operation security of power systems.The broader impact/commercial potential of this project includes 1) the targeted problem (power system state estimator) is extremely critical in modern power grids or smart grids and can help prevent system-wide failures or blackouts if properly handled, 2) the certainty of commercialization of the proposed approach warranting significant NSF support because the provided solution is fast enough for the real-time application and the new state estimator does not ask for additional inputs or requirements comparing with the existing ones, 3) the research team is formed by technical as well as marketing personnel which ensures the success of the sales of the products, 4) the uniqueness of the proposed approach which provides competitive benefits to the market that cannot be met by alternate technologies and can attract further funding from non-SBIR sources and result in direct sales to power industry, 5) the proposed approach develops a unique formulation/solution of state estimation which very possibly leads to further innovations, 6) the new procedure of the proposed approach based on unique formulation and unique philosophy can promote teaching, training and learning in the area of state estimation.