An Automatic Identification Framework for Complex Power Quality Disturbances Based on Multifusion Convolutional Neural Network

Intelligent identification of multiple power quality (PQ) disturbances is very useful for pollution control of power systems. In this paper, we propose a novel detection framework for complex PQ disturbances based on multifusion convolutional neural network (MFCNN). Our contributions focus on automatic extraction and fusion of features from multiple sources. First, an information fusion structure is introduced in which the time domain and frequency domain information of the PQ disturbance signal are used as inputs. Additionally, the one-dimensional composite convolution is proposed to improve the diversity of network features based on the standard convolution and dilated convolution. Then, to speed up the training and prevent overfitting, batch normalization is used to adjust the distribution of features. Second, we use several visualization methods to resolve the internal mode of MFCNN, and demonstrate the working mechanism of the proposed method. Finally, we conduct various experiments to verify the effectiveness of the MFCNN. Compared with the handcrafted feature design methods and the general convolutional neural network models, the simulation under different noises and hardware platform-based experiments verify the effectiveness of noise immunity, higher training speed, and better accuracy of the method.