State Estimation of Power System with UPFC Using Interior Point WLAV Method

This paper presents a robust state estimator for power system containing unified power flow controller. The state estimation problem is formulated as an optimization problem using weighted least absolute value criteria, with a set of equality and inequality constraints. The interior point optimization method is applied to primal and dual formulation in order to solve this problem. The modified IEEE 14-bus system is used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. The simulation results indicate that the method yields good estimation of the system states for a power system with UPFC.