Les travaux de thèse s’inscrivent dans le cadre d’une relation pérenne que le CRAN entretient depuis 10 ans avec le CNES. Il s’agit d’étudier la pertinence du remplacement des réseaux de type bus actuellement embarqués dans les lanceurs européens, par des architectures Ethernet commutées standard sur étagères. Les précédents travaux ont permis de qualifier Ethernet sur 2 items de qualité de service : temps-réel et disponibilité. Nous nous attachons à poursuivre ce travail en validant ces premiers résultats sur une plateforme, reproduction à l’échelle de l’architecture qui sera embarquée dans les lanceurs. Ensuite, nous travaillons sur un item original de qualité de service, exigence typique du spatial, appelé observabilité. L’objectif est de rejouer tout vol, après coup, au sol, sachant que le lanceur n’y revient pas, et que l’architecture est commutée, conférant au réseau une dimension multi-domaines d’observation non synchronisés. La synthèse de toutes les captures impose donc de garantir que l’ordonnancement et la fraîcheur des informations de contrôle du lanceur véhiculées dans les trames soient en cohérence avec le fonctionnement applicatif spécifié, et que ce qui est observé soit conforme à ce qui s’est réellement passé. Enfin, nous proposons un sur-échantillonnage réglé dynamiquement pour profiter de la bande passante disponible sans remettre en cause les exigences temps-réel, de reconfiguration et d’observabilité / This thesis is part of a long-lasting relationship between the CRAN and the CNES since 10 years. This involves studying the pertinence of replacing the buses currently embedded in European’s launchers, by off-the-shelf switched standard Ethernet architecture. Previous works qualified Ethernet regarding two quality of service items: real time and reliability. We continue this work by validating these first results on a platform, true scale architecture reproduction which will be embedded in launchers. Then, we work on an original quality of service item, typical of the spatial requirements, called observability. The objective is to re-play the whole flight, afterwards, on ground, knowing that the launcher will not come back, and the architecture is segmented, conferring to the network the dimension of non synchronized multi-domains of observation. The synthesis of all the captures implies to guarantee that the order and the freshness of launcher control information are consistent with the specified applicative operation, and that what is observed is compliant to what really happened. Finally, we propose an over-sampling which is dynamically regulated in order to benefit from the available bandwidth without disturbing real time, reconfiguration and observability requirements

Propõem-se desenvolver uma ferramenta computacional voltado a objeto que permita a visualização gráfica, de forma amigável, dos resultados da dissertação de mestrado: Sistema de avaliação da qualidade e redundância das medidas para estimação de estados em sistemas elétricos de potência. A ferramenta foi desenvolvida na plataforma Windows utilizando o Microsoft C Sharp no ambiente DotNet. Os testes foram executados em resultados em redes de 14 barras. Este trabalho foi o passo inicial para elaborar uma melhor integração das diferentes dissertações num ambiente computacional moderno, cuja visualização dos resultados seja de forma mais didática e objetiva. / This paper objects develop a user friendly, object oriented, graphic computational, tool, using the output results of the paper: Sistema de avaliação da qualidade e redundância das medidas para estimação de estados em sistemas elétricos de potência. The tool was developed on Windows platform, using Microsoft C Sharp in DotNet environment. The tests were performed using numbers of networks of 14 bars. This work was the first step to develop a better integration of dissertations in a modern computing environment, which is the viewing DSO results in a more intuitive and objective.

Neste trabalho de dissertação propõe-se uma metodologia para análise de observabilidade (restauração e identificação de ilhas) e identificação de medidas críticas para sistemas de medição formados por medidas convencionais (medidas de amplitude de tensão e de potência obtidas via sistema SCADA) e medidas fasoriais sincronizadas. A metodologia possibilita análise e restauração da observabilidade a partir da fatoração triangular da matriz jacobiana, associada a um sistema de medição possuindo medidas convencionais e fasoriais sincronizadas. Para identificar as ilhas observáveis, no caso de o sistema não ser observável como um todo, a metodologia faz uso do conceito de caminhos de fatoração, associado à matriz jacobiana fatorada. As medidas críticas são identificadas a partir da análise da estrutura da matriz H \'delta\' t, que é obtida a partir da fatoração triangular da matriz jacobiana. A metodologia proposta é simples, de execução rápida, de fácil implantação e não exige a solução de equações algébricas. Dessa forma a mesma atende aos requisitos para operação em tempo-real. Com o intuito de mostrar como a metodologia proposta funciona, são apresentados exemplos da sua aplicação em um sistema teste de 4 barras. Vale destacar que resultados de diversas simulações computacionais, utilizando os sistemas teste do IEEE (14, 30 e 57 barras), têm demonstrado a eficiência da metodologia. / This dissertation proposes a methodology for observability analysis (restoration and identification of observable islands) and identification of critical measurements for metering systems composed of both synchronized phasor and conventional measurements (power and voltage magnitude measurements). The methodology enables observability analysis and restoration via the triangular factorization of the jacobian matrix associated with metering systems formed by those two types of measurements. The identification of observable islands is carried out through the analysis of the path graphs associated with the factorization of the jacobian matrix. Critical measurements are identified via analysis of the structure of the H \'delta\' t matrix, which is obtained by the triangular factorization of the jacobian matrix. The methodology is simple, fast and easy to implement and does not require solutions of any algebraic equation. Consequently, it is useful for real-time operation. Small numerical examples, using a 4-bus test system, showing the application of the proposed methodology are presented. The IEEE 14, 30 and 57 bus systems with different measurement scenarios were used to evaluate the performance of the proposed methodology.

Cette thèse traite de la notion d’observabilité états-entrées (ISO) dans les systèmes de réseaux linéaires. On cherche des caractérisations graphiques en utilisant la notion de structure (resp. s-structural) ISO. Tout d’abord nous nous concentrons sur les systèmes de réseaux linéaires invariant en temps, représentés par des graphes fixes et fournissons des caractérisations pour structure ISO fortes. Par la suite, nous nous intéressons aux systèmes de réseaux linéaires variant en temps, dans lesquels nous nous concentrons d’abord sur le cas particulier des graphes fixes (la structure du graphe reste fixe mais les poids sur les arêtes peuvent varier à la dynamique qui varie dans le temps). Nous montrons que, sous des hypothèses appropriées sur la structure des matrices de commande, d’observation et d’action, l’ISO d’un système équivaut à l’observabilité d’un sous-système défini de manière appropriée. Par la suite, nous exploitons cette équivalence pour obtenir des caractérisations graphiques de l’ISO structurelle (resp. S-structurelles).Ensuite, pour la configuration du LTV, nous considérons le cas plus général des graphes variant en temps tout en ne faisant aucune hypothèse sur la structure des matrices du système. Nous introduisons deux descriptions appropriées de la collection complète de graphes, nommés graphes dynamiques et graphes dynamiques bipartites. Deux caractérisations équivalentes de l’ISO structurelle sont ensuite présentées en termes d’existence d’une liaison et d’une correspondance de taille appropriée, respectivement, dans le graphe dynamique et dans le graphe dynamique bipartite. Pour les ISO fortement structurelles, nous fournissons une condition suffisante et une condition nécessaire, concernant à la fois à l’existence d’une correspondance restreinte de taille appropriée dans le graphe dynamique bipartite et dans un sous-graphe de celle-ci. Lorsqu’il n’y a pas d’action directe de la commande sur les mesures, les deux conditions peuvent être fusionnées pour donner lieu à une condition nécessaire et suffisante.Enfin, nous présentons un algorithme récursif sans biais qui estime simultanément les états et les commandes. Nous nous concentrons sur les systèmes à retard-l inversibles avec retard intrinsèque l > 1, où la reconstruction de la commande est possible uniquement en utilisant des sorties allant jusqu’à un nombre "l" de temps plus tard. En montrant une équivalence avec un système de descripteurs, nous présentons des conditions dans lesquelles le filtre variant en temps converge vers un filtre stationnaire stable, impliquant la solution d’une équation algébrique à temps discret de Riccati. / This thesis deals with the notion of Input and State Observability (ISO) in linear network systems. One seeks graphical characterizations using the notion of structural (resp. s-structural) ISO. We first focus on linear time-invariant network systems ,represented by fixed graphs, and provide characterizations for strong structural ISO. Thereafter, we turn our attention to linear time-varying network systems wherein we first narrow our attention to the particular case of fixed graphs (i.e., the structure of the graph remains fixed; the weights along the edges are allowed to vary, thereby giving rise to time-varying dynamics). We show that, under suitable assumptions on the structure of input, output and feedthrough matrices, ISO of a system is equivalent to observability of a suitably defined subsystem. Subsequently, we exploit this equivalence to obtain graphical characterizations of structural (resp. s-structural) ISO.Thereafter, for the LTV setting, we consider the more general case of time-varying graphs and furthermore make no assumptions on the structure of system matrices. We introduce two suitable descriptions of the whole collection of graphs, which are named as dynamic graph and dynamic bipartite graph. Two equivalent characterizations of structural ISO are then stated in terms of existence of a linking and a matching of suitable size in the dynamic graph and in the dynamic bipartite graph, respectively. For strongly structural ISO, we provide a sufficient condition and a necessary condition, both concerning the existence of a uniquely restricted matching of suitable size in the dynamic bipartite graph and in a subgraph of it. When there is no direct feedthrough of the input on the measurements, the two conditions can be merged to give rise to a necessary and sufficient condition.Finally, we present an unbiased recursive algorithm that simultaneously estimates states and inputs. We focus on delay-$ell$ left invertible systems with intrinsic delay $ellgeq 1$, where the input reconstruction is possible only by using outputs up to $ell$ time steps later in the future. By showing an equivalence with a descriptor system, we state conditions under which the time-varying filter converges to a stationary stable filter, involving the solution of a discrete-time algebraic Riccati equation.

Ce manuscrit porte sur la synthèse d'observateurs grand gain pour des systèmes non linéaires à sorties échantillonnées et retardées. Trois contributions sont proposées à la lecture de ce manuscrit. La première contribution, pour une classe de systèmes Multi-entrées / Multi-sorties uniformément observables et dont les sorties sont regroupées en un seul bloc, met en jeu le problème du processus d'acquisition des mesures de sorties (continues, échantillonnées, retardées ou non) et propose un cadre commun pour l'ensemble des cas possibles. La deuxième contribution propose un observateur grand gain filtré sur cette même classe de systèmes dans l'optique de réduire la sensibilité au bruit de mesure, dans le cas où la sortie est continue puis dans le cas où cette dernière est échantillonnée. La dernière contribution vise à étendre la synthèse grand gain standard pour une large classe de systèmes Multi-entrées / Multi-sorties uniformément observables dont les mesures des sorties sont continues. Pour chacune de ces contributions, il a été montré que l'erreur d'observation de chacun des observateurs proposés converge exponentiellement vers zéro en l'absence d'incertitudes sur le système. Toutes ces contributions ont été illustrées par différents exemples issus de plusieurs domaines d'étude. / This manuscript deals with the synthesis of high gain observers for nonlinear systems with sampled and delayed outputs. Three contributions are proposed for consideration in this manuscript. The first contribution, for a class of Multi-input / Multi-output systems whose outputs are grouped into a single block, involves the problem of the acquisition process of output measurements (continuous, sampled, delayed or not) and proposes a common framework for all possible cases. The second contribution proposes a filtered high gain observer on this same class of systems in order to reduce the sensitivity to measurement noise, in the case where the output is continuous and then in the case where the latter is sampled. The last contribution aims to extend the standard high gain synthesis for a large class of uniformly observable Multi-input / Multi-output systems with continuous output measurements. For each of these contributions, it has been shown that the observation error of each of the proposed observers converges exponentially towards zero in the absence of uncertainties in the system. All these contributions have been illustrated through several examples from different fields of study.

Les systèmes d'Equations aux Dérivées Partielles Hyperboliques Linéaires du Premier Ordre (EDPs HLPO) permettent de modéliser de nombreux systèmes de lois de conservation. Ils apparaissent, par exemple, lors de la modélisation de problèmes de trafic routier, d'échangeurs de chaleurs, ou de problèmes multiphasiques. Différentes approches ont été proposées pour stabiliser ou observer de tels systèmes. Parmi elles, la méthode de backstepping consiste à transformer le système originel en un système découplé pour lequel la synthèse de la loi de commande est plus simple. Les contrôleur obtenus par cette méthode sont explicites.Dans la première partie de cette thèse, nous présentons des résultats généraux de théorie des systèmes. Plus précisément, nous résolvons les problèmes de stabilisation en temps fini pour une classe générale d'EDPs HLPO. Le temps de convergence minimal atteignable dépend du nombre d'actionneurs disponibles. Les observateurs associés à ces contrôleurs (nécessaires pour envisager une utilisation industrielle de tels contrôleurs) sont obtenus via une approche duale. Un des avantages importants de l'approche considérée dans cette thèse est de montrer que l'espace généré par les solutions de l'EDPs HLPO considérée est isomorphe à l'espace généré par les solutions d'une système neutre à retards distribués.Dans la seconde partie de cette thèse, nous montrons la nécessité d'un changement de stratégie pour résoudre les problèmes de contrôle robuste. Ces questions surviennent nécessairement lorsque sont considérées des applications industrielles pour lesquelles les différents paramètres du système peuvent être mal connus, pour lesquelles des dynamiques peuvent avoir été négligées, de même que des retards agissant sur la commande ou sur la mesure, ou encore pour lesquels les mesures sont bruitées. Nous proposons ainsi quelques modifications sur les lois de commande précédemment développées en y incorporant plusieurs degrés de liberté permettant d'effectuer un compromis entre performance et robustesse. L'analyse de stabilité et de robustesse sous-jacente est rendue possible en utilisant l'isomorphisme précédemment introduit. / Linear First-Order Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations (LFOH PDEs) represent systems of conservation and balance law and are predominant in modeling of traffic flow, heat exchanger, open channel flow or multiphase flow. Different control approaches have been tackled for the stabilization or observation of such systems. Among them, the backstepping method consists to map the original system to a simpler system for which the control design is easier. The resulting controllers are explicit.In the first part of this thesis, we develop some general results in control theory. More precisely, we solve the problem of finite-time stabilization of a general class of LFOH PDEs using the backstepping methodology. The minimum stabilization time reachable may change depending on the number of available actuators. The corresponding boundary observers (crucial to envision industrial applications) are obtained through a dual approach. An important by-product of the proposed approach is to derive an explicit mapping from the space generated by the solutions of the considered LFOH PDEs to the space generated by the solutions of a general class of neutral systems with distributed delays. This mapping opens new prospects in terms of stability analysis for LFOH PDEs, extending the stability analysis methods developed for neutral systems.In the second part of the thesis, we prove the necessity of a change of strategy for robust control while considering industrial applications, for which the major limitation is known to be the robustness of the resulting control law to uncertainties in the parameters, delays in the loop, neglected dynamics or disturbances and noise acting on the system. In some situations, one may have to renounce to finite-time stabilization to ensure the existence of robustness margins. We propose some adjustments in the previously designed control laws by means of several degrees of freedom enabling trade-offs between performance and robustness. The robustness analysis is fulfilled using the explicit mapping between LFOH PDEs and neutral systems previously introduced.

Contrairement aux systèmes linéaires, il n’existe pas de méthode systématique pour la synthèse d’observateurs pour systèmes non linéaires. Cependant, la synthèse peut être plus ou moins simple suivant les coordonnées choisies pour exprimer la dynamique. Des structures particulières, appelées formes canoniques, ont notamment été identifiées comme permettant la construction facile et directe d’un observateur. Une façon usuelle de résoudre ce problème consiste donc à chercher un changement de coordonnées réversible transformant l’expression de la dynamique dans l’une de ces formes canoniques, puis à synthétiser l’observateur dans ces coordonnées, et enfin à en déduire une estimation de l’état du système dans les coordonnées initiales par inversion de la transformation. Cette thèse contribue à chacune de ces trois étapes. Premièrement, nous montrons l’intérêt d’une nouvelle forme triangulaire avec des non linéarités continues (non Lipschitz). En effet, les systèmes observables pour toutes entrées, mais dont l'ordre d’observabilité différentielle est supérieur à la dimension du système, peuvent ne pas être transformables dans la forme triangulaire Lipschitz standard, mais plutôt dans une forme triangulaire "seulement continue". Le célèbre observateur grand gain n’est alors plus suffisant, et nous proposons d’utiliser plutôt des observateurs homogènes.Une autre forme canonique intéressante est la forme linéaire Hurwitz, qui admet un observateur trivial. La question de la transformation d’un système non linéaire dans une telle forme n’a été étudiée que pour les systèmes autonomes à travers les observateurs de Kazantzis-Kravaris ou de Luenberger. Nous montrons ici comment cette synthèse, consistant à résoudre une EDP, peut être étendue aux systèmes instationnaires/commandés. Quant à l’inversion de la transformation, cette étape est loin d’être triviale en pratique, surtout lorsque les espaces de départ et d’arrivée ont des dimensions différentes. En l’absence d’expression explicite et globale de l’inverse, l’inversion numérique repose souvent sur la résolution d’un problème de minimisation couteux en calcul. C’est pourquoi nous développons une méthode qui permet d’éviter l’inversion explicite de la transformation en ramenant la dynamique de l’observateur (exprimée dans les coordonnées de la forme canonique) dans les coordonnées initiales du système. Ceci passe par l’ajout de nouvelles coordonnées et par l’augmentation d’une immersion injective en un difféomorphisme surjectif. Enfin, dans une partie totalement indépendante, nous proposons aussi des résultats concernant l’estimation de la position du rotor d’un moteur synchrone à aimant permanent en l’absence d’informations mécaniques (sensorless) et lorsque des paramètres tels que la résistance ou le flux de l’aimant sont inconnus. Ceci est illustré par des simulations sur données réelles. / Unlike for linear systems, no systematic method exists for the design of observers for nonlinear systems. However, observer design may be more or less straightforward depending on the coordinates we choose to express the system dynamics. In particular, some specific structures, called canonical forms, have been identified for allowing a direct and easier observer construction. It follows that a common way of addressing the problem consists in looking for a reversible change of coordinates transforming the exression of the system dynamics into one of those canonical forms, design an observer in those coordinates, and finally deduce an estimate of the system state in the initial coordinates via inversion of the transformation. This thesis contributes to each of those three steps.First, we show the interest of a new triangular canonical form with continuous (non-Lipschitz) nonlinearities. Indeed, we have noticed that systems which are observable for any input but with an order of differential observability larger than the system dimension, may not be transformable into the standard Lipschitz triangular form, but rather into an "only continuous" triangular form. In this case, the famous high gain observer no longer is sufficient, and we propose to use homogeneous observers instead.Another canonical form of interest is the Hurwitz linear form which admits a trivial observer. The question of transforming a nonlinear system into such a form has only been addressed for autonomous systems with the so-called Lunberger or Kazantzis-Kravaris observers. This design consists in solving a PDE and we show here how it can be extended to time-varying/controlled systems.As for the inversion of the transformation, this step is far from trivial in practice, in particular when the domain and image spaces have different dimensions. When no explicit expression for a global inverse is available, numerical inversion usually relies on the resolution of a minimization problem with a heavy computational cost. That is why we develop a method to avoid the explicit inversion of the transformation by bringing the observer dynamics (expressed in the canonical form coordinates) back into the initial system coordinates. This is done by dynamic extension, i-e by adding some new coordinates to the system and augmenting an injective immersion into a surjective diffeomorphism.Finally, in a totally independent part, we also provide some results concerning the estimation of the rotor position of a permanent magnet synchronous motors without mechanical information (sensorless) and when some parameters such as the magnet flux or the resistance are unknown. We illustrate this with simulations on real data.

Para obter-se uma operação segura dos sistemas elétricos de potência (SEP), é imprescindível uma estimação de estado (EE) confiável, pois, as ações de controle e operação, em tempo real, dos SEP se baseiam no banco de dados obtido pelo processo de EE. O primeiro passo, para o sucesso do processo de EE, é a obtenção de um plano de medição confiável, ou seja, um plano de medição que garanta a observabilidade do sistema e a não presença de medidas críticas e dos conjuntos críticos de medidas. Entretanto, tendo em vista a possibilidade de ocorrer, durante a operação de um SEP, de problemas causando a perda de medidas, a obtenção de um plano de medição confiável é uma condição necessária, mas não suficiente, para o sucesso do processo de EE. Face ao exposto, desenvolveu-se neste trabalho um programa computacional que possibilita uma EE confiável mesmo em situação de perda de medidas. O programa proposto permite, de uma forma rápida em termos de velocidade de execução, análise e restauração da observabilidade, identificação de medidas críticas e de conjuntos críticos de medidas, bem como a atualização dessas características qualitativas de conjunto de medidas após a perda de medidas. Como embasamento teórico para o desenvolvimento do programa proposto, foram utilizados dois algoritmos destinados à análise das características qualitativas de conjuntos de medidas, que se baseiam na fatoração triangular da matriz Jacobiana, bem como técnicas de esparsidade e de desenvolvimento de programas computacionais. Para comprovar a eficiência do programa proposto, vários testes foram realizados, utilizando o sistema de 6, 14 e 30 barras do IEEE e 121 barras da ELETROSUL. / To obtain a safe power system (PS) operation, becomes necessary a reliable state estimation (SE), since the real time control actions of a PS are based on the data obtained through the SE process. The first requirement for a successful SE process is the existence of a reliable measurement placement plan, that is, a measurement placement plan that guarantees system observability and the absence of both critical measurements and critical sets. However, considering that during the operation of a PS measurements can be lost decreasing the measurement-redundancy, one can say that although a reliable measurement placement plan is a necessary condition to guarantee a reliable state estimation, it is not sufficient. This dissertation presents a computer program that allows for a reliable SE, even in situations of problems causing loss of measurements. The proposed software allows, in a very fast way in terms of execution time, observability analysis and restoration, identification of critical measurements and critical sets, as well as the updating of these measurement set qualitative characteristics after loss of measurements. As a theoretical background for the development of the software, two algorithms were utilized allowing for the analysis of measurement set qualitative characteristics based on the triangular factorization of the Jacobian matrix, as well as sparsity techniques and techniques for the development of programs. To prove the efficiency of the proposed software, several tests were performed using the system of 6, 14 and 30 buses from IEEE and 121 buses from ELETROSUL.

Propõem-se desenvolver uma ferramenta computacional voltado a objeto que permita a visualização gráfica, de forma amigável, dos resultados da dissertação de mestrado: Sistema de avaliação da qualidade e redundância das medidas para estimação de estados em sistemas elétricos de potência. A ferramenta foi desenvolvida na plataforma Windows utilizando o Microsoft C Sharp no ambiente DotNet. Os testes foram executados em resultados em redes de 14 barras. Este trabalho foi o passo inicial para elaborar uma melhor integração das diferentes dissertações num ambiente computacional moderno, cuja visualização dos resultados seja de forma mais didática e objetiva. / This paper objects develop a user friendly, object oriented, graphic computational, tool, using the output results of the paper: Sistema de avaliação da qualidade e redundância das medidas para estimação de estados em sistemas elétricos de potência. The tool was developed on Windows platform, using Microsoft C Sharp in DotNet environment. The tests were performed using numbers of networks of 14 bars. This work was the first step to develop a better integration of dissertations in a modern computing environment, which is the viewing DSO results in a more intuitive and objective.

Neste trabalho de dissertação propõe-se uma metodologia para análise de observabilidade (restauração e identificação de ilhas) e identificação de medidas críticas para sistemas de medição formados por medidas convencionais (medidas de amplitude de tensão e de potência obtidas via sistema SCADA) e medidas fasoriais sincronizadas. A metodologia possibilita análise e restauração da observabilidade a partir da fatoração triangular da matriz jacobiana, associada a um sistema de medição possuindo medidas convencionais e fasoriais sincronizadas. Para identificar as ilhas observáveis, no caso de o sistema não ser observável como um todo, a metodologia faz uso do conceito de caminhos de fatoração, associado à matriz jacobiana fatorada. As medidas críticas são identificadas a partir da análise da estrutura da matriz H \'delta\' t, que é obtida a partir da fatoração triangular da matriz jacobiana. A metodologia proposta é simples, de execução rápida, de fácil implantação e não exige a solução de equações algébricas. Dessa forma a mesma atende aos requisitos para operação em tempo-real. Com o intuito de mostrar como a metodologia proposta funciona, são apresentados exemplos da sua aplicação em um sistema teste de 4 barras. Vale destacar que resultados de diversas simulações computacionais, utilizando os sistemas teste do IEEE (14, 30 e 57 barras), têm demonstrado a eficiência da metodologia. / This dissertation proposes a methodology for observability analysis (restoration and identification of observable islands) and identification of critical measurements for metering systems composed of both synchronized phasor and conventional measurements (power and voltage magnitude measurements). The methodology enables observability analysis and restoration via the triangular factorization of the jacobian matrix associated with metering systems formed by those two types of measurements. The identification of observable islands is carried out through the analysis of the path graphs associated with the factorization of the jacobian matrix. Critical measurements are identified via analysis of the structure of the H \'delta\' t matrix, which is obtained by the triangular factorization of the jacobian matrix. The methodology is simple, fast and easy to implement and does not require solutions of any algebraic equation. Consequently, it is useful for real-time operation. Small numerical examples, using a 4-bus test system, showing the application of the proposed methodology are presented. The IEEE 14, 30 and 57 bus systems with different measurement scenarios were used to evaluate the performance of the proposed methodology.