Monopolar Grounding Fault Location Method of DC Distribution Network Based on Improved ReliefF and Weighted Random Forest

Compared with the pole-to-pole short circuit, the fault characteristics are not obvious when a monopolar grounding fault occurs in a DC distribution network, and it is difficult to locate the fault accurately. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a fault location method based on improved Relie...

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Published in:Energies
Main Authors: Yan Xu, Ziqi Hu, Tianxiang Ma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-10-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/19/7261
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Summary:Compared with the pole-to-pole short circuit, the fault characteristics are not obvious when a monopolar grounding fault occurs in a DC distribution network, and it is difficult to locate the fault accurately. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a fault location method based on improved ReliefF and Weighted random forest (WRF). The 24 time and frequency-domain fault features of the postfault aerial mode current are calculated, and the most useful features are selected to form the optimal feature subset for input to the fault location estimator. In this paper, the ReliefF algorithm is utilized for automatic feature selection and obtaining the weights of features. In addition, the WRF algorithm is used to build the fault location estimator. Considering the fault location, fault resistance, noise and time window length, the Matlab/Simulink simulation platform is used to simulate the fault situation and compare it with other algorithms. The simulation results show that the average positioning error of the fault location method is less than 0.1%, which is not affected by the fault resistance and has strong robustness.
ISSN:1996-1073