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Fault Detection Utilizing Convolution Neural Network on Timeseries Synchrophasor Data From Phasor Measurement Units

Journal Article · · IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
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  1. Temple Univ., Philadelphia, PA (United States); Texas A&M University
  2. Temple Univ., Philadelphia, PA (United States)
  3. Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
  4. Quanta Technology, Raleigh, NC (United States)

An end-to-end supervised learning method is proposed for fault detection in the electric grid using Big Data from multiple Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs). The approach consists of preprocessing steps aimed at reducing data noise and dimensionality, followed by utilization of six classification models considered for detecting faults. Three of the models were variants of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures that consider a single type of measurement (voltage, current or frequency) at all PMUs or all types together also at all PMUs. CNN based models were compared to traditional methods of Logistic Regression (LR), Multi-layer Perceptron (MLP) and Support Vector Machine (SVM). Evaluation was conducted on two-year data measured by PMUs at 37 locations in a large electric grid. Here, the response variable for classification were extracted from the grid-wide outage event log. Experiments show that CNN-based models outperformed traditional methods on one year out-of-sample outage detection over the entire grid.

Research Organization:
Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States). Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
OE0000913
OSTI ID:
1874491
Journal Information:
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Journal Name: IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 37; ISSN 0885-8950
Publisher:
IEEECopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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