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Cyber Security for Power System State Estimation

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State estimation is a critical application that provides situational awareness and permits efficient operation of the smart grid. The secure, accurate, and fast computation of the state estimates is crucial to execute the complex decisions and diverse control actions needed in real time to provide reliable, economic, and safe power systems that integrate distributed and intermittent renewable generation. This chapter discusses research directions to evaluate the cyber security and develop novel algorithms for securing today and tomorrow’s power state estimation and grid operation.

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This work was supported by Japan Science and Technology Agency under the CREST Program, Grant No. JPMJCR15K3.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Idaho, 875 Perimeter Drive, MS 1023, Moscow, ID, 83844-1023, USA

    Yacine Chakhchoukh

  2. Department of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259-J2-54, Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama, 226-8502, Japan

    Hideaki Ishii

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Chakhchoukh, Y., Ishii, H. (2019). Cyber Security for Power System State Estimation. In: Stoustrup, J., Annaswamy, A., Chakrabortty, A., Qu, Z. (eds) Smart Grid Control. Power Electronics and Power Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98310-3_15

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