Estimate the Lost Phasor Measurement Unit Data Using Alternating Direction Multipliers Method

This paper presents a novel algorithm for recovering missing data of phasor measurement units (PMUs). Due to the low-rank property of PMU data, missing measurement estimation can be formulated as a low-rank matrix-completion problem. Based on maximum-margin matrix factorization, we propose an efficient algorithm based on alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for solving the matrix completion problem. Comparing to existing approaches, the proposed ADMM based algorithm does not need to estimate the rank of the target data matrix and provides better performance in computation complexity. In addition, we consider the case of measurements missing from all PMU channels and provide a strategy of reshaping the matrix which contains the received PMU data for estimation. Numerical results using PMU measurements from IEEE 68-bus power system model illustrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed approaches.