A Cloud-Edge-Based Multi-Label Learning and Fast Clustering Method for Emerging New PV Faults

Aiming at accurate identification of emerging new faults in PV systems, a novel PV fault diagnosis framework based on cloud-edge collaboration is designed. Model updates are deployed on the cloud servers, while real-time diagnosis is implemented at the edge devices. A multi-label learning model is developed to extract fault features efficiently, and a threshold scheme is further designed for feature enhancement. The obtained features are processed by K-Means clustering and the One-Class Support Vector Machine (OCSVM) methods, which can accurately diagnose existing types and identify unknown faults. For analysis and demonstration, the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) methods are used for dimensionality reduction and visualization. Numerical results validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.