Modern Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) devices are capable of monitoring real time events in the electrical-power networks. This allows better control and faster responses when network faults occur. The Real Time Digital Simulator (RTDS) device allows one to perform digital simulations, which represent good approximation of the real signals in power grids when using PMU devices. Using RTDS, 7 types of faults occurring in energy networks were obtained.
The data obtained from RTDS was analysed in the Python programming language. The research contains descriptions of electrical-power networks faults recordings in energy networks and procedures on how to identify them. The Fourier series in combination with the least squares method was fitted to the power grid fault signals. By doing this, mathematical functions were obtained, which were then used as a tool for obtaining features. Those functions provided groundwork for energy grid fault signal recognition. The Fourier series was used in two ways: i) Fourier series was used to gather information regarding signal trend. ii) Fourier series was used so we could acquire represented angular frequencies of a fitted function on faulted signal in electric power system. In the first option adjusted R2 statistics was used to select the best Fourier series fit. The thesis includes usage of two machine-learning algorithms, namely the Support vector machines and K-nearest neighbours. For further improvement two dimension reduction algorithms were applied on K-nearest neighbours method; Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Neighbourhood Components Analysis (NCA). All the machine learning methods used were mostly done with the help of the Scikit-learn library.
The whole procedure from testing and validation to parameter tuning and parameter selection is described in accordance with two used training sets of a different size. The research provides comparisons of the performance for both versions of feature acquisition algorithms, machine-learning methods, and of ways to reduce dimensions. The results of all comparisons are split into smaller and larger training sets, where both test results and prediction results on new unseen energy networks signal faults are evaluated on.
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