Stiffness-Aware Decentralized Dynamic State Estimation for Inverter-Dominated Power Systems

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Main Authors: Zhao, Xingyu, Netto, Marcos, Zhao, Junbo
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author Zhao, Xingyu
Netto, Marcos
Zhao, Junbo
author_facet Zhao, Xingyu
Netto, Marcos
Zhao, Junbo
contents Dynamic state estimation (DSE) is becoming increasingly important for monitoring inverter-dominated power systems. Due to their cascading control structures, inverter-based resources (IBRs) exhibit multi-timescale dynamics, leading to stiff system models that pose significant challenges for conventional DSE methods. In particular, explicit discretization schemes often require impractically small sampling intervals to maintain numerical stability, increasing computational and communication burdens. To address this issue, this paper proposes a stiffness-aware decentralized DSE method for inverter-dominated power systems. The statistical linearization is used to construct a local linear surrogate model for the nonlinear dynamics, which allows matrix-exponential discretization to enable analytical uncertainty propagation in discrete time, rather than relying on explicit integration schemes. This enables stable DSE at lower sampling rates. Numerical results reveal the mechanism by which stiff dynamics destabilize conventional DSE and demonstrate that the proposed method achieves efficient and accurate estimation under coarse sampling conditions.
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spellingShingle Stiffness-Aware Decentralized Dynamic State Estimation for Inverter-Dominated Power Systems
Zhao, Xingyu
Netto, Marcos
Zhao, Junbo
Systems and Control
Dynamic state estimation (DSE) is becoming increasingly important for monitoring inverter-dominated power systems. Due to their cascading control structures, inverter-based resources (IBRs) exhibit multi-timescale dynamics, leading to stiff system models that pose significant challenges for conventional DSE methods. In particular, explicit discretization schemes often require impractically small sampling intervals to maintain numerical stability, increasing computational and communication burdens. To address this issue, this paper proposes a stiffness-aware decentralized DSE method for inverter-dominated power systems. The statistical linearization is used to construct a local linear surrogate model for the nonlinear dynamics, which allows matrix-exponential discretization to enable analytical uncertainty propagation in discrete time, rather than relying on explicit integration schemes. This enables stable DSE at lower sampling rates. Numerical results reveal the mechanism by which stiff dynamics destabilize conventional DSE and demonstrate that the proposed method achieves efficient and accurate estimation under coarse sampling conditions.
title Stiffness-Aware Decentralized Dynamic State Estimation for Inverter-Dominated Power Systems
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18732