High Impedance Fault Detection Based on Attention Mechanism and Object Identification

Detection of high impedance faults (HIFs) has been traditionally a main challenge in the protection of distribution systems, since they do not generate enough current to be reliably detected by conventional over-current relays. Data-based methods are alternative HIF detection methods which avoid thr...

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Main Authors: Yongjie Zhang, Xiaojun Wang, Yiping Luo, Dahai Zhang, Sohrab Mirsaeidi, Jinghan He
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Language:English
Published: China electric power research institute 2024-01-01
Series:CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9666836/
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author Yongjie Zhang
Xiaojun Wang
Yiping Luo
Dahai Zhang
Sohrab Mirsaeidi
Jinghan He
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Xiaojun Wang
Yiping Luo
Dahai Zhang
Sohrab Mirsaeidi
Jinghan He
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description Detection of high impedance faults (HIFs) has been traditionally a main challenge in the protection of distribution systems, since they do not generate enough current to be reliably detected by conventional over-current relays. Data-based methods are alternative HIF detection methods which avoid threshold settings by training a classification or regression model. However, most of them lack interpretability and are not compatible with various distribution networks. This paper proposes an object detection-based HIF detection method, which has higher visualization and can be easily applied to different scenarios. First, based on the analysis of HIFs, a Butterworth band-pass filter is designed for HIF harmonic feature extraction. Subsequently, based on the synchronized data provided by distribution-level phasor measurement units, global HIF feature gray-scale images are formed through combining the topology information of the distribution network. To further enhance the feature information, a locally excitatory globally inhibitory oscillator region attention mechanism (LEGIO-RAM) is proposed to highlight the critical feature regions and inhibit useless and fake information. Finally, an object detection network based You Only Look Once (YOLO) v2 is established to achieve fast HIF detection and section location. The obtained results from the simulation of the proposed approach on three different distribution networks and one realistic distribution network verify that the proposed method is highly effective in terms of reliability and generalization.
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spelling doaj.art-fa595238242d438dbcdf344df3eaac2e2024-04-09T19:47:12ZengChina electric power research instituteCSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems2096-00422024-01-0110119720710.17775/CSEEJPES.2021.001409666836High Impedance Fault Detection Based on Attention Mechanism and Object IdentificationYongjie Zhang0Xiaojun Wang1Yiping Luo2Dahai Zhang3Sohrab Mirsaeidi4Jinghan He5School of Electrical Engineering. Beijing Jiaotong University,Beijing,China,100044School of Electrical Engineering. Beijing Jiaotong University,Beijing,China,100044School of Electrical Engineering. Beijing Jiaotong University,Beijing,China,100044School of Electrical Engineering. Beijing Jiaotong University,Beijing,China,100044School of Electrical Engineering. Beijing Jiaotong University,Beijing,China,100044School of Electrical Engineering. Beijing Jiaotong University,Beijing,China,100044Detection of high impedance faults (HIFs) has been traditionally a main challenge in the protection of distribution systems, since they do not generate enough current to be reliably detected by conventional over-current relays. Data-based methods are alternative HIF detection methods which avoid threshold settings by training a classification or regression model. However, most of them lack interpretability and are not compatible with various distribution networks. This paper proposes an object detection-based HIF detection method, which has higher visualization and can be easily applied to different scenarios. First, based on the analysis of HIFs, a Butterworth band-pass filter is designed for HIF harmonic feature extraction. Subsequently, based on the synchronized data provided by distribution-level phasor measurement units, global HIF feature gray-scale images are formed through combining the topology information of the distribution network. To further enhance the feature information, a locally excitatory globally inhibitory oscillator region attention mechanism (LEGIO-RAM) is proposed to highlight the critical feature regions and inhibit useless and fake information. Finally, an object detection network based You Only Look Once (YOLO) v2 is established to achieve fast HIF detection and section location. The obtained results from the simulation of the proposed approach on three different distribution networks and one realistic distribution network verify that the proposed method is highly effective in terms of reliability and generalization.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9666836/Attention mechanismdistribution-level phasor measurement unitshigh impedance faultsobject detection
spellingShingle Yongjie Zhang
Xiaojun Wang
Yiping Luo
Dahai Zhang
Sohrab Mirsaeidi
Jinghan He
High Impedance Fault Detection Based on Attention Mechanism and Object Identification
CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems
Attention mechanism
distribution-level phasor measurement units
high impedance faults
object detection
title High Impedance Fault Detection Based on Attention Mechanism and Object Identification
title_full High Impedance Fault Detection Based on Attention Mechanism and Object Identification
title_fullStr High Impedance Fault Detection Based on Attention Mechanism and Object Identification
title_full_unstemmed High Impedance Fault Detection Based on Attention Mechanism and Object Identification
title_short High Impedance Fault Detection Based on Attention Mechanism and Object Identification
title_sort high impedance fault detection based on attention mechanism and object identification
topic Attention mechanism
distribution-level phasor measurement units
high impedance faults
object detection
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9666836/
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