Applications of compressed sensing for locating harmonic distortions in power systems

This paper demonstrates the use of compressive sensing methods for locating sources of harmonic distortion in power networks. It is shown that the number of sensors required to locate a source of harmonic distortion is typically small, and proportional to the number of suspicious sources. Simulations show that any 2 sources of harmonic distortion can be located using 6 sensors in a 50 bus power system.