Title: Wavelet feature-based modular neural network for detection and classification of power quality disturbances

Authors: Challa Venkatesh; D.V.S.S. Siva Sarma; Maheswarapu Sydulu

Addresses: Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SR Engineering College, Warangal – 506371, Andhra Pradesh, India ' Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Warangal – 506004, Andhra Pradesh, India ' Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Warangal – 506004, Andhra Pradesh, India

Abstract: Disturbances such as voltage sag, swell, interruption and harmonics are very typical in a power system. Power quality monitoring should be capable of identifying these disturbances to initiate mitigation action and protect sensitive loads. This paper presents wavelet-neural network-based detection and classification of power quality disturbances. Wavelet transform has the ability to analyse signals simultaneously in both time and frequency domains and is used to extract features of the disturbances by decomposing the signal using multi resolution analysis. These features, used to detect and localise the disturbances and are not easily separable, will reduce the performance of multilayer neural network. Improvement in the classification accuracy is suggested by employing modular neural network obtained by dividing a complex task into easier subtasks. The algorithm proposed is tested for classification of various power quality disturbances and it is found that a modular neural network has a higher classification accuracy over traditional multilayer neural network.

Keywords: artificial neural networks; ANNs; classification; harmonics; power quality disturbances; voltage sag; voltage swell; wavelet transforms; power interruption; power quality monitoring; feature extraction.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPELEC.2013.054141

International Journal of Power Electronics, 2013 Vol.5 No.1, pp.17 - 29

Accepted: 01 Dec 2012
Published online: 30 Jun 2014 *

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