A deep learning approach to earth fault classification and source localization
Paper in proceeding, 2020

A portion of electrical feeders in distribution grids are prone to faults, often resulting in different types of earth faults, power quality disturbances as well as damaged equipment and outages. While in developed countries the amount of such feeders can be relatively low, the quota reaches as high as 20% for many developing countries. Tackling this issue requires (i) understanding the current status of the grid and the faults that occur and (ii) identifying the origin of the fault for preventing similar future faults. This process is however costly and time consuming as it requires many hours of tedious manual work from engineers, operators or field experts. In an effort to tackle this issue, we present in this work a machine learning based framework for automatized fault type classification and faulty feeder identification. We provide an empirical evaluation of our proposed framework on a dataset of recordings from a real grid, showing encouraging results.

Faulty feeder

Artificial intelligence (AI)

Earth fault

Smart grid

Author

Ebrahim Balouji

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Signal Processing and Biomedical Engineering

Karl Bäckström

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Networks and Systems (Chalmers)

Petri Hovila

ABB

IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe

Vol. 2020-October 635-639 9248944
9781728171005 (ISBN)

10th IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe, ISGT-Europe 2020
Delft, Netherlands,

Subject Categories

Other Mechanical Engineering

Other Engineering and Technologies not elsewhere specified

Software Engineering

DOI

10.1109/ISGT-Europe47291.2020.9248944

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