Feature-Selection based PMU Placement for Detection of Faults in Power Grids

Authors

R. Alhalaseh, H. A. Tokel, S. Chakraborty, G. Alirezaei, R. Mathar,

Abstract

        The monitoring of power distribution networks and identification of system faults become more and more important as the overall power grid undergoes structural changes. Such changes are due to the increasing integration of distributed and volatile renewable generation units. This work focuses on strategies for the placement of phasor measurement units (PMU) in a power distribution system, such that the detection and classification of line outages can be facilitated accurately. The determination of sensor locations is based on a feature selection approach, where the measurement locations, which provide the most informative input to the supervised learning techniques, are successively selected until the required classification accuracy is obtained. Hence, the number of required PMUs is minimized without jeopardizing the detection accuracy. The proposed methodology is applied to benchmark distribution systems, where simulated data is used for training deep neural networks (DNN), decision trees (DT), and random forests (RF) for fault detection and classification.

Keywords

network planning; sensor placement; state forecasting; data analytics; artificial neural networks; fault diagnosis

BibTEX Reference Entry 

@inproceedings{AlToChAlMa18,
	author = {Rana Alhalaseh and Halil Alper Tokel and Subhodeep Chakraborty and Gholamreza Alirezaei and Rudolf Mathar},
	title = "{Feature-Selection} based {PMU} Placement for Detection of Faults in Power Grids",
	pages = "1-6",
	booktitle = "2018 28th International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC) (ITNAC 2018)",
	address = {Sydney, Australia},
	month = Nov,
	year = 2018,
	hsb = RWTH-2018-231972,
	}

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