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Approaches to Human Performance Modeling of Electric Grids Operators

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Abstract

Due to the integration of digital technology, electric grids have become more complex and vulnerable to cyber-attacks. A worst-case scenario cyber-attack could result in a blackout, leading to significant financial loss or life-threatening events. For prioritizing limited investment, cascading failure analysis with simulation is one way to understand impacts and to provide insights into how a blackout might happen. Human operators play an important role in mitigating risk or maintaining the system state to be considered in the simulation. In this research, we review the cognitive architecture model, task analysis approach, and human reliability analysis in the context of characterizing humans in electric grid cascading failure analysis. Recommendations for an operator modeling method are made to address the scalability.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Safety Management and Human Performance - Proceedings of the AHFE 2020 Virtual Conferences on Safety Management and Human Factors, and Human Error, Reliability, Resilience, and Performance
EditorsPedro M. Arezes, Ronald L. Boring
PublisherSpringer
Pages171-177
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)9783030509453
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
EventAHFE Virtual Conferences on Safety Management and Human Error, Reliability, Resilience, and Performance, 2020 - San Diego, United States
Duration: Jul 16 2020Jul 20 2020

Publication series

NameAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume1204 AISC
ISSN (Print)2194-5357
ISSN (Electronic)2194-5365

Conference

ConferenceAHFE Virtual Conferences on Safety Management and Human Error, Reliability, Resilience, and Performance, 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Diego
Period07/16/2007/20/20

Keywords

  • Cascading failure
  • Cyber-attack
  • Human performance modeling
  • Power systems reliability
  • Risk analysis

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