Simultaneous Placement of PMUs and Communication Infrastructure in WAMS using NSGA-II

These functions are performed by measuring devices, communication systems, and energy management systems, respectively. Quite often these three mutually dependent functions have been studied independently by a number of researchers.

However, phasor measurement unit (PMU) placement problem needs to be solved by optimizing the three objectives, namely minimizing the installation cost of PMUs, maximizing the measurements redundancy, and their required communication infrastructure simultaneously by ensuring complete power system network observability. In the present work, this task has been accomplished using non-dominating sorting genetic algorithm-II.