Fault classification on transmission line using LSTM network

Abstract

Deep Learning has ignited great international attention in modern artificial intelligence techniques. The method has been widely applied in many power system applications and produced promising results. A few attempts have been made to classify fault on transmission lines using various deep learning methods. However, a type of deep learning called long short-term memory (LSTM) has not been reported in literature. Therefore, this paper presents fault classification on transmission line using LSTM network as a tool to classify different types of faults. In this study, a transmission line model with 400 kV and 100 km distance was modelled. Fault free and 10 types of fault signals are generated from the transmission line model. Fault signals are pre-processed by extracting post-fault current signals. Then, these signals are fed as input to the LSTM network and trained to classify 10 types of faults. The white Gaussian noise of level 20 dB and 30 dB signal to noise ratio (SNR) is also added to the fault current signals to evaluate the immunity of the proposed model. Simulation results show promising classification accuracy of 100%, 99.77% and 99.55% for ideal, 30 dB and 20 dB noise respectively. Results has been compared to four different methods which can be seen that the LSTM leading with the highest classification accuracy. In line with the purpose of the LSTM functions, it can be concluded that the method has a capability to classify fault signals with high accuracy.