Fast Frequency-Domain Decomposition for Ambient Oscillation Monitoring

This paper proposes a multidimensional ambient oscillation monitoring algorithm denoted Fast Frequency Domain Decomposition (FFDD). Based on a new theoretical result, the algorithm is offered as an improvement over previously proposed Frequency Domain Decomposition (FDD) in that FFDD does not require time-consuming Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and it does not require cross spectrum estimates. FFDD is useful for fast real-time ambient modal estimation of large number of synchrophasor measurements. Algorithm is tested on an archived event data from a real power system.