Framework of Random Matrix Theory for Power System Data Mining in a Non-Gaussian Environment

A novel empirical data analysis methodology based on the random matrix theory (RMT) and time series analysis is proposed for the power systems. Among the ongoing research studies of big data in the power system applications, there is a strong necessity for new mathematical tools that describe and analyze big data. This paper used RMT to model the empirical data which also treated as a time series. The proposed method extends traditional RMT for applications in a non-Gaussian distribution environment. Three case studies, i.e., power equipment condition monitoring, voltage stability analysis and low-frequency oscillation detection, illustrate the potential application value of our proposed method for multi-source heterogeneous data analysis, sensitive spot awareness and fast signal detection under an unknown noise pattern. The results showed that the empirical data from a power system modeled following RMT and in a time series have high sensitivity to dynamically characterized system states as well as observability and efficiency in system analysis compared with conventional equation-based methods.