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Situational awareness architecture for smart grids developed in accordance with dispatcher’s thought process: a review

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The operational environment of today’s smart grids is becoming more complicated than ever before. A number of factors, including renewable penetration, marketization, cyber security, and hazards of nature, bring challenges and even threats to control centers. New techniques are anticipated to help dispatchers become aware of the accurate situations as they manipulate and navigate the situations as quickly as possible. To address the issues, we first introduce the background for this topic as well as the emerging technical demands of situational awareness in the dispatcher’s environment. The general concepts and technical requirements of situational awareness are then summarized, aimed at offering an overview for readers to understand the state-of-the-art progress in this area. In addition, we discuss the importance of integrating the architecture of support tools in accordance with the dispatcher’s thought process, which in fact guides correct and swift reactions in real-time operations. Finally, the prospects for situational awareness architecture are investigated with the goal of presenting situational awareness modules in an advanced and visualized manner.

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    You-bo Liu, Jun-yong Liu, Ting-jian Liu & Xi Zhang

  2. Electronic and Computer Engineering, Brunel University, London, UB8 3PH, UK

    Gareth Taylor

  3. State Grid Sichuan Power Economic Research Institute, Chengdu, 610014, China

    Jing Gou

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ORCID: You-bo LIU, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5465-5243

Dr. You-bo LIU, corresponding author of this invited review article, received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Sichuan University in 2005 and 2008, respectively. He was a visiting researcher of Power System Research Institute of Brunel University, UK, from Oct. 2009 to Oct. 2010, and received Ph.D. degree in power system and automation from School of Electrical Engineering and Information, Sichuan University, 2011. He joined the School of Electrical Engineering and Information, Sichuan University, China in 2011. Currently, he is a lecturer in the same college. He is also affiliated with the Intelligent Electric Power Grid Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province at Sichuan University. His research interests focus on power system security assessment and situation awareness, power system vulnerability, and cascading failures analytics. He is a member of IEEE.

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Liu, Yb., Liu, Jy., Taylor, G. et al. Situational awareness architecture for smart grids developed in accordance with dispatcher’s thought process: a review. Frontiers Inf Technol Electronic Eng 17, 1107–1121 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1631/FITEE.1601516

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