Information model for power grid fault diagnosis based on CIM

An analytic model for fault diagnosis of power system using optimization technique is expressed as unconstrained 0-1 integer programming problem, and consequently faulty equipment identification can be solved by refined mathematical operation. Considering the configuration of automatic devices in modern power systems, such as protective relays and reclosing relays, an improved analytic model and optimization technique-based method for fault diagnosis of power system is proposed in this paper. The evaluation criteria of the presented model is improved considering the relationship of multiple main protective relays, backup protective relays, malfunctioning protective relays and reclosing relays. Improvements of analytic model for fault diagnosis of electric power system based on optimization techniques are presented firstly. A brief description about the modulars and functions of the online fault diagnosis software which is developed by the authors for Jiangsu Provincial Power Company is given. The adopted EMS data acquisition method and simulated online test results for the power system of Jiangsu Power Company are described.

A power system fault diagnosis framework based on multi-agent system (MAS) is proposed to realize the parallelization and intelligence of grid fault diagnosis system. In the form of encapsulating multiple sub-modules of power grid fault diagnosis function, the multi-agent system model of power grid fault diagnosis with perception, reasoning and interaction is formed. Under the co-operation of agents, the fault diagnosis system is designed and the complex fault analysis of power grid is realized. Finally, taking the 3/2 wiring fault analysis as example, the MAS cooperation architecture is analyzed.

Smart grids with interoperability improve grid reliability by collecting system information and transferring it to an energy management system and associated applications through a seamless end-to-end connection. To achieve interoperability, it is required to exchange the semantic information within the different domains. The international electrotechnical commission has established the Common Information Model (CIM) tool, which is a standard application programming interface for the exchange of semantic information in power systems. CIM provides a robust framework for accurate data sharing, merging, and transformation into reusable information. However, as CIM provides a basic framework for information exchange, various practical issues arise in establishing an energy management system capable of exchanging information using CIM. This paper aims to offer a comprehensive understanding by summarizing and categorizing the research on the practical use of CIM for interoperability in smart grids. Many papers are analyzed and the issues are classified into CIM extension, harmonization, and validation to address the issues that arise when establishing an integrated information exchange system.

The problem of the wind turbine gearbox fault diagnosis was investigated by employing the support vector machine (SVM), which is optimized by the improved fruit fly intelligent algorithm with decreasing steps. First of all, the fault characteristic value extracted by Hilbert transform envelope is presented. Secondly, the general SVM solution to the wind turbine gearbox fault diagnosis problem is presented, where the improved fruit fly intelligent algorithm is adopted to optimize the performance of the model of the fault detection and diagnosis. Thirdly, the effectiveness of three fault diagnosis models are compared, including the fault detection and diagnosis model by the traditional SVM, its improved model optimized by the partical swarm optimization algorithm, and improved model by the SVM optimized by the proposed approach. By using the proposed optimization algorithm, the accuracy of gearbox fault diagnosis is much better than other two models, which are validated by the extensive simulation results based on practical historical operation data.

Many assessment and detection methods are used to diagnose faults in machines. High accuracy in fault detection and diagnosis can be achieved by using numerical methods with noise-resistant properties. However, to some extent, noise always exists in measured data on real machines, which affects the identification results, especially in the diagnosis of early- stage faults. In view of this situation, a damage assessment method based on blind source separation and dynamic fuzzy neural network (DFNN) is presented to diagnose the early-stage machinery faults in this paper. In the processing of measurement signals, blind source separation is adopted to reduce noise. Then sensitive features of these faults are obtained by extracting low dimensional manifold characteristics from the signals. The model for fault diagnosis is established based on DFNN. Furthermore, on-line computation is accelerated by means of compressed sensing. Numerical vibration signals of ball screw fault modes are processed on the model for mechanical fault diagnosis and the results are in good agreement with the actual condition even at the early stage of fault development. This detection method is very useful in practice and feasible for early-stage fault diagnosis.

EMS-API(energy management system- application program interface) standard IEC61970 has realized seamless integration of EMS application software, but IEC61970 standard covers little about microgrid CIM (common information Model). Therefore, CIM in IEC61970 should be extended for the design of microgrid energy management system based on IEC61970 standard.This paper discusses principles and methods of CIM extension, focusing on CIM extension of wind plant and battery energy storage system. it demonstrates a bidirectional energy dispatching model for battery energy storage system and sets up the CIM for photovoltaic power generation system and fuel cell generating system. Based on all this, the CIM for microgrid EMS is forged and then applied to the practical designing of microgrid EMS.

Various faults occurred in the continuous bulk materials weighing equipment (CBMWE) usually lead to more economic loss and waste of human resources inevitably. A new approach based on the improved DBSCAN (Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise) clustering and Bayesian regularization neural network (BRNN) is proposed for online fault detection and diagnosis of CBMWE--electronic belt weigher (BW). Firstly, in view of the fault data varying with equipment flow, an improved DBSCAN clustering algorithm is developed to realize the online fault detection by extracting the fault data with the clustering analysis of the real-time data. Secondly, BRNN is proposed as a classifier to identify the fault pattern with the extracted fault data. Both the models of online fault detection and diagnosis are realized using MATLAB. Finally, the test result shows that the proposed online fault detection and diagnosis model is able to cope with the online fault detection and diagnosis of BW and also yields great diagnostic accuracy. In general, this approach for online fault detection and diagnosis of BW has a great significance to bulk weighing equipment.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.mech.21.1.8560

This paper aims to build a new fault diagnosis system based on big data and artificial intelligence technology. This study first expounds the application value and prospect of big data technology and intelligent algorithm in the fault diagnosis of ship power system, and realizes the effective integration and mining of massive, multi-source and heterogeneous ship power system operation data through in-depth analysis of the characteristics of ship power system operation data. Secondly, in view of the nonlinear and time-varying characteristics of ship power system faults, this study designs and implements a fault diagnosis model that integrates intelligent algorithms such as machine learning and deep learning. The model can automatically extract key fault features, realize early warning and accurate identification of potential faults, and improve the accuracy and response speed of fault diagnosis through continuous learning and optimization. Finally, this study applies the big data intelligent system for fault diagnosis of computer-aided ship power system to a practical case to verify its effectiveness and practicability in improving fault diagnosis efficiency, reducing maintenance costs, and ensuring navigation safety. The research results have important theoretical significance and practical value for improving the level of ship operation and maintenance management and ensuring the stable operation of ship power system.

The electrical system fault testing and diagnosis system based on I2C-bus and embedded equipment is proposed. This system is accomplished with the integration of PXI-based computer, field fault testing platform, dedicated interface adapter unit and accessories with software program of virtual instrument and database management and fault guidance system. It can obtain various state parameters of the heavy mechanized bridge by interface adapter unit and corresponding sensors. The dedicated interface adapter unit, that is the core of the hardware platform is composed of chassis, embedded microcomputer controller, I2C-bus data acquisition modules, VPC connection package and military aviation sockets. Because of its flexibility and modular design, it can support different data conversion, for example, analog, digital, and serial, while functioning as an intelligent conversion bridge between field fault testing platform or PXI computer and electrical system of heavy mechanized bridge electrical system. The fault diagnosis software is of hierarchical modular structure with integration of system management control, fault detection and circuit hardware driver modules together with fault repair and diagnosis database. Therefore it provides functions of human-machine interaction, equipment fault detection, fault diagnosis and analysis, as well as repair and maintenance guidance The fault testing and diagnosis system in this work is also featured with handy structure, lightweight, low consumption, large storage capacity, excellent expandability and intelligent inference capability. The system can be used in the online fault testing and diagnosis of similar engineering equipments. So it has important engineering and military application value to the rapid fault testing and fault diagnosis of engineering equipments.

This work approaches relative aspects to the alarm processing problem and fault diagnosis in system level, having as purpose filter the alarms generated during a outage and identify the equipment under fault. A methodology was developed using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and Genetic Algorithms (GA) in order to resolve the problem. This procedure had as initiative explore the GA capacity to deal with combinatory problems, as well as the ANN processing speed and generalization capacity. Such strategy favors a fast and robust solution.

The rigidity of information technology (IT) has been hindering the development of various businesses regarding energy management systems (EMSs) of power networks, although this area has become more diversified, resulting in changes of elements in the systems due to the introduction of renewable energy (RE) and the new energy industry. In order to effectively accommodate these changes, EMSs should be developed in a structure with a standard-based interface, which can secure interoperability between components in the EMS. In previous studies, the common information model (CIM) proposed by IEC TC57 has been utilized for developing EMSs of power networks, but there are gaps between the existing CIM and an information model for the EMSs of carbon-free island microgrids (MGs), which are a newly introduced form of power network covering multiple islands for reducing carbon emissions. This paper proposes a CIM-based software platform for a carbon-free island MG-EMS to efficiently operate the power network and secure interoperability between components in the MG-EMS. Concerning service restoration of the power network, use cases and business objects representing information exchanged between the components in the EMS are derived, and the existing CIM is extended based on the results of the gap analysis in order to provide necessary information on the MG-EMS. The validity of the proposed platform is verified by exchanging payloads between components in the MG-EMS based on the profile extracted from the extended CIM. Furthermore, the performance of the proposed platform regarding data size and speed of data exchange is presented. Based on the case study results, it is concluded that the proposed platform based on the extended CIM can exchange data between the components in the MG-EMS, achieving reasonable data size and speed of data exchange with the help of the interoperability between components in the carbon-free island MG-EMS.

Prototype matching-based meta-learning model for few-shot fault diagnosis of mechanical system

In order to solve the problem of fast fault diagnosis in power system, this paper introduces a method of finite state machine model of fault reasoning for distribution system under time sequence constraints. Firstly, the concept of time sequence constraint characteristics of SOE data from the SCADA alarm window is introduced, which is crucial to judge whether the alarm sequence are from an individual fault accident. Then, by fully considers the “protection-circuit breaker” action as well as its logic, the Finite State Machine model with various system fault types was constructed. Finally, to prove the effectiveness of the method, a set of alarm data in real accident which happen in 10 kV distribution systems is applied to test the model. The result shows that the model can quickly analyze SOE data within the time interval in system accident, and effectively help the operation dispatcher to handle accident and defect elimination.

To solve the problem of fault prediction and diagnosis of household air conditioning, an improved Bayesian network (BN) fault diagnosis model is proposed. Firstly, the orthogonal defect classification (ODC) is used to make statistics and analysis of air conditioning fault data, and the structure of BN fault diagnosis model is built based on the analysis results. Then, genetic algorithm (GA) is used to optimize the conditional probability of network nodes and determine the network parameters. Finally, the cooling and heating failure data of household air conditioning were taken as an example to diagnose. Compared with the traditional BN model, the accuracy of fault diagnosis increases from 81.13% to 92.83%, which verifies the effectiveness of the model.

Fault detection and diagnosis in the pumping unit is a challenging industrial problem for the system that exhibits nonlinearity, coupled parameters, and time-varying noise. This paper proposes a novel combined unscented Kalman filter (UKF) and radial basis function (RBF) method based on an adaptive noise factor for fault diagnosis in the pumping unit. First, to reduce computation and complexity of the diagnosis model, the Fourier descriptor method based on an approximate polygon is presented to extract the features of the indicator diagram. RBF neural network is adopted to establish the fault diagnosis model based on indicator diagram data and production data. In particular, UKF is used to train the weights (w <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">m,l</sub> ), the center (c <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">m</sub> ), and the width (b <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">m</sub> ) of the RBF model. Furthermore, the adaptive noise factor method is proposed to address the adaptive filtering issue in the fault diagnosis model. The proposed method is applied to the pumping unit system, and experimental results show the effectiveness and favorable recognition rate in classifying multiple faults.