PIDGeuN: Graph Neural Network-Enabled Transient Dynamics Prediction of Networked Microgrids Through Full-Field Measurement

Abstract

A Physics-Informed Dynamic Graph Neural Network (PIDGeuN) is presented to accurately, efficiently and robustly predict the nonlinear transient dynamics of microgrids in the presence of disturbances. The graph-based architecture of PIDGeuN provides a natural representation of the microgrid topology. Using only the state information that is practically measurable, PIDGeuN employs a time delay embedding formulation to fully reproduce the system dynamics, avoiding the dependency of conventional methods on internal dynamic states, e.g., of controllers. Based on a judiciously designed message passing mechanism, the PIDGeuN incorporates two physics-informed techniques to improve its predictive performance, including a physics-data-fusion approach to determining the inter-dependencies between buses, and a loss term to enforce the known physical law of the power system, i.e., the Kirchhoff’s law, to ensure the feasibility of the model prediction. Extensive tests show that PIDGeuN can provide accurate and robust prediction of transient dynamics for nonlinear microgrids over a long-term time period. Therefore, the PIDGeuN offers a potent tool for the modeling of large scale networked microgrids (NMs), with potential applications to predictive or preventive control in real time applications for the stable and resilient operations of NMs.

Keywords

• Graph neural network (GNN)
• networked microgrids (NMs)
• transient dynamics
• prediction
• distributed energy resources (DERs)