Sensor-Aware Joint Data Fusion and State Estimation under Sparse Multi-rate Distribution Grid Sensing

arXiv:2610.15156v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distribution-system state estimation is a growing necessity for the modern power grid as the addition of local storage and generation add system complexity that an operator or aggregator is not able to directly monitor. Classical methods work well when all system elements are time-synchronized and at least partly observable, but multi-rate monitoring of sparse heterogeneous sensors typically relies on machine learning approaches. It is a common practice in the literature to structure this task as a two-stage pipeline, first fusing data from disparate sensors and then feeding the fused pseudo-measurements to a separately trained state estimator. We propose a heterogeneous latent graph ODE in which measurement functions and sampling processes are typed and localized on specific buses, paired with a graph- transformer state estimator solving DSSE specifically for multi-rate heterogeneous sensor placements, and demonstrate its effectiveness across multiple IEEE standard topologies as observability degrades.

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Source: arXiv cs.LG | 2026-10-14