Hybrid Deep Learning Model for Fault Detection and Classification of Grid-Connected Photovoltaic System

Abstract

Effective fault detection and classification play essential roles in reducing the hazards such as electric shocks and fire in photovoltaic (PV) systems. However, the issues of interest in fault detection and classification for PV systems remain an open-ended challenge due to manual and time-consuming processes that require the relevant domain knowledge and experience of fault diagnoses. This paper proposes a hybrid deep-learning (DL) model-based combined architectures as the novel DL approaches to achieve the real-time automatic fault detection and classification of a PV system. This research employed the wavelet packet transform (WPT) as a data preprocessing technique to handle the PV voltage signal collected and feeding them as the inputs for combined DL architectures that consist of the equilibrium optimizer algorithm (EOA) and long short-term memory (LSTM-SAE) approaches. The combined DL architectures are able to extract the fault features automatically from the preprocessed data without requiring any previous knowledge, therefore can override the traditional shortages of manual feature extraction and manual selection of optimal features from the extracted fault features. These desirable features are anticipated to speed up the fault detection and classification capability of the proposed DL model with higher accuracy. In order to determine the performance of the proposed fault model, we carried out a comprehensive evaluation study on a 250-kW grid-connected PV system. In this paper, symmetrical and asymmetrical faults have been studied involving all the phases and ground faults such as single phase to ground, phases to phase, phase to phase to ground, and three-phase to ground. The simulation results validate the efficacy of the proposed model in terms of computation time, accuracy of fault detection, and noise robustness. Comprehensive comparisons between the simulation results and previous studies demonstrate the multidisciplinary applications of the present study.INDEX TERMS Deep distributed energy, equilibrium optimizer algorithm (EOA), fault detection and classification, grid-connected photovoltaic systems, optimal feature selection, wavelet packet transform (WPT).

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