Initial condition based real time classification of power quality disturbance using deep convolution neural network with bidirectional long short‐term memory

• Published in: IET generation, transmission & distribution Vol. 17; no. 23; pp. 5135 - 5154
• Main Authors: Kandasamy, Prabaakaran, Kumar, Chandrasekaran, Lakshmanan, Muthuramalingam, Jaisiva, Selvaraj, Stonier, Albert Alexander, Peter, Geno, Ganji, Vivekananda
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 01.12.2023
• Subjects: convolutional neural nets; power quality/harmonics
• ISSN: 1751-8687; 1751-8695
• DOI: 10.1049/gtd2.13026

The accurate classification of power quality disturbances (PQDs) is crucial for advancing real‐time monitoring and classification systems within the modern power grid. The proposed system must ensure dependable, safeguarded, and stable operating conditions amidst diverse power quality issues. This paper presents an approach to classifying power quality disturbances using a deep learning model that synergizes deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN) and Bidirectional Long Short‐Term Memory (BiLSTM). This amalgamation effectively extracts and classifies disturbance signals in real time, grounded on noise levels. The initial feature extraction from the signal is accomplished through a time‐frequency matrix. Subsequently, secondary extraction employs the BiLSTM layer to intricately and significantly classify disturbances in the power signal. This aids in transforming high‐dimensional matrices into a reduced set for enhanced performance. The detailed classification is facilitated by the softmax layer. The simulation results support the power quality evaluations under varied constraints and underscore the substantial classification of power quality disturbances through the DCNN‐BiLSTM algorithm, in comparison to alternative classification algorithms in terms of computational speed and accuracy. Power quality classifications are carried out by noise level‐based disturbance signal classification in a traditional manner. This paper proposes the classification of power quality disturbance using a deep convolution neural network (DCNN) with a bidirectional long short‐term memory (BiLSTM) layer for further extraction and significant classification on a real‐time system.