A Probabilistic Multi-Objective Model for Phasor Measurement Units Placement in the Presence of Line Outage

Abstract

Optimal phasor measurement units (PMU) placement was developed to determine the number and locations of PMUs on the premise of full observability of the whole network. In order to enhance reliability under contingencies, redundancy should also be considered beside the number of PMUs in optimal phasor measurement units placement problem. Thus, in this paper, a multi-objective model was established to consider the two conflicting components simultaneously, solved by Iμ-constraint method and the fuzzy satisfying approach. The redundancy here was formulated as average possibility of observability including random component outages, and full possibility formula was applied to calculate the average possibility of observability in the case of single line outage. Finally, the model was employed to the IEEE-57 bus system, and the results verified that the developed model could provide a placement scheme with higher reliability.