Testing and Validation of Power System Dynamic State Estimators Using Real Time Digital Simulator (RTDS)

This paper presents an approach to test and validate a number of power system dynamic state estimation (PSDSE) algorithms, utilizing Real Time Digital Simulator (RTDS), a real-time simulation tool. WSCC 9-bus and IEEE 30-bus systems have been utilized to demonstrate the proposed approach. The test systems are developed on the RSCAD software of the RTDS. The conventional remote terminal unit (RTU) measurements and the phasor measurement unit (PMU) measurements are sent from the RTDS runtime environment to the MATLAB based PSDSE application at regular intervals for the estimation of the states, using software-in-the-loop (SIL) configuration. The PSDSE is solved by utilizing the extended Kalman filter (EKF), the unscented Kalman filter (UKF), and the cubature Kalman filter (CKF) approaches, and their relative performances are studied with the help of the simulation results on the two test systems.