Modal Analysis of Ambient PMU Measurements Using Orthogonal Wavelet Bases

This paper proposes a new method, called wavelet scale decomposition, for modal analysis of ambient synchrophasor data using orthogonal wavelet bases. Wavelet formulation of the problem enables reliable estimation results even with short data analysis windows that are a few minutes long. Also, in addition to finding the mode frequency and damping ratio of oscillatory modes, the proposed method is able to estimate their mode shapes as well. The method is tested on some archived real phasor measurement unit data sets and on simulations from Kundur two area system. The results show that the proposed method is able to track damping ratio variations in power systems effectively with short analysis windows.

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