A distributed robust state estimation method based on alternating direction method of multipliers for integrated electricity‐heat system

Abstract Integrated electricity‐heat system (IEHS) has been paid more and more attention in recent years for its advantage in improving energy efficiency, reducing carbon emissions and increasing renewable energy penetration. To ensure the safety, reliability and economic operation of IEHS, several centralised state estimation (SE) methods for IEHS have been proposed. However, power systems and heat systems often belong to different management entities, and there are industrial barriers such as information privacy, operational differences, and target differences between them, which leads to less applicability of centralised SE methods. In addition, the robustness of existing distributed SE methods for IEHS is not satisfactory. To this end, a distributed robust state estimation (DRSE) model for IEHS based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is proposed. Firstly, by introducing auxiliary state variables and measurements, a robust linear SE model based on weighted least absolute values (WLAV) is proposed. Then, second‐order cone constraints composed of auxiliary state variables are added to the SE model, leading a SOCP‐based robust SE model. Finally, the ADMM algorithm is used to solve the proposed SOCP‐based robust SE model. Simulations demonstrate that the proposed method has higher estimation accuracy in both general and strongly correlated adverse data tests and also can ensure data privacy, good robustness and high estimation accuracy. This indicates that the method proposed has good robustness and solves the problem of weak robustness of existing distributed static state estimation methods.