“…Usually, the complex impedance measured at the machine terminals is compared with a proper characteristic on the complex impedance plane, to detect the asynchronous operation (Elmore, 1994). The other methods used for identification of out-ofstep operations are based on the rate of change of apparent resistance augmentation (Taylor, 1983), the equal area criterion (Centeno, 1997), the observations of phase differences between substations (Ohura, 1990) or on the applications of neural networks (Rebizant, 2001). Since the mostly used methods are not secure enough, it is suitable to search for new solutions.…”