Event-trigger extended Kalman filter design for distributed generation network with limited communication

For distributed generation (DG) network, it is important to estimate the real-time states. The information-centric networking (ICN) is established to take charge of the communication of DG network. However, the assumption of ideal communication between sensors and the estimation center cannot be guaranteed due to the communication constraints of ICN with the increasing DG network. A conventional algorithm, which reduces the communication burden in ICN, is to drop the observation of each smart grid in a random way. However, the accuracy of this algorithm recession decays rapidly with the increasing drop rate. To guarantee an appropriate estimation accuracy when the drop rate increases, this paper introduces the event-trigger strategy into the estimation algorithm. An event-trigger extended Kalman filter (ET-EKF) is established in this paper to adapt the nonlinearity of DG system. ET-EKF reduces the communication burden and achieves an appropriate estimation accuracy at the same time. Finally, its feasibility and performance are demonstrated using the standard IEEE 39-bus system with phasor measurement units (PMUs).