Transmitting Systems Dynamics in SCADA using Uneven Sampling/ Cubic Spline Interpolation based Data Compression

ABSTRACT

Grasping power system dynamic information is helpful for dispatcher in the control center to take correct control action in time under emergency condition. Traditionally, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) cannot transmit power system dynamics information since it updates system information once every several seconds. Based on the development of substation automation system, a data compression based approach is proposed in this paper to transmit power system dynamics information in existing SCADA. An uneven sampling is utilized to extract the feature points that determine the profile of system dynamics. Thereafter, these feature points contain dynamic information is transmitted from Remote Terminal Units to the control center. The system dynamics can thus be reconstructed with cubic spline interpolation. Numerical simulation on a 36 nodes system suggests that the system dynamics could be transmitted with high fidelity in existing SCADA using the proposed approach. Moreover, the proposed approach can be implemented in SCADA with limited software update.

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