Application of nonlinear Kalman filters to the identification of customer phase connection in distribution grids

This paper presents a state estimation approach to address the problem of identifying the phase to which single-phase customers are connected in three-phase distribution grids. The proposed method performs Kalman filtering on the information provided simultaneously by the smart meter of every custom...

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Authors: González Cagigal, Miguel Ángel, Rosendo Macías, José Antonio, Gómez Expósito, Antonio
Format: article
Status:Versión aceptada para publicación
Publication Date:2021
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repository:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/154812
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/154812
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijepes.2020.106410
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Ensemble Kalman filter
Cubature Kalman Filter
Unscented Kalman Filter
Phase identification
State estimation
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Summary:This paper presents a state estimation approach to address the problem of identifying the phase to which single-phase customers are connected in three-phase distribution grids. The proposed method performs Kalman filtering on the information provided simultaneously by the smart meter of every customer and the aggregated energy consumption measured at each phase of the secondary substation feeding the set of customers. Different nonlinear formulations of the Kalman filter are tested and their performance compared, showing that the ensemble Kalman filter provides better estimation results when the system size increases. The accuracy, robustness and limitations of the estimator are also tested when measurement errors are considered.