Reliability Modeling for the Advanced Electric Power Grid: A Proposal for Doctoral Research

Abstract

The advanced electric power grid is a cyber-physical system comprised of physical components such as power generators and transmission lines, and cyber components that control the operation of the grid. The objective of the proposed doctoral research is to develop a reliability model for the grid that reflects interdependencies among cyber and physical failures, through capturing the semantics of the system operation. We investigate several failure modes for devices that carry out cyber control of the grid, and examine the effect of their failure in terms of physical power flow in the grid. We propose the use of fault injection into the software of the cyber layer to refine the model, as well as the development of statistical methods to determine confidence levels for our model.

Meeting Name

33rd Annual IEEE Internatioanl Computer Software and Applications Conference (2009: Jul. 20-24, Seattle, WA)

Department(s)

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Second Department

Computer Science

Keywords and Phrases

Confidence Levels; Cyber-Physical Systems; Doctoral Research; Electric Power Grids; Fault Injection; Physical Components; Physical Power; Power Generators; Reliability Model; Reliability Modeling; System Operation; Transmission Line; Computer Applications; Electric Power Measurement; Electric Power Transmission Networks; Power Generation; Software Testing; Word Processing; Failure Analysis

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

978-0769537269

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

0730-3157

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

Document Version

Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2009 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Jul 2009

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