ANALYSIS OF POWER QUALITY

EVENTS USING WAVELETS AND

NEURAL NETWORKS

By,
S.POORNIMA,
CHENNAI

OBJECTIVE
To compress the power quality data
using spline wavelet transform and
radial basis function based neural
network.
To compare the performance of the
proposed scheme with DWT.
To identify the events by CWT.

Data compression
Several practical problems in
storage and communication.
Poor quality due to line
disturbances.
Results in malfunctions,
instabilities, short life time, etc.

Compression techniques
DCT

DWT

Neural network

PROPOSED TECHNIQUE
Creation of power quality event criterion
for Spline Wavelet Transform by setting low
energy coefficients to Zero.

Each threshold coefficient is encoded to

reduce the no. of bits compared to its
conventionally coded bits using the RBFNN.

Overall performance= product of two

compression stages.

Compression Stage

Signal

RBFNN
SWT

Reconstructed
Signal

Thresholding

Inverse SWT

Compressor

RBFNN
Expander

Reconstruction Stage
PROPOSED SCHEME

SPLINE WAVELET
Used to construct semi-orthogonal,
bi-orthogonal and shift-orthogonal.
Regular and symmetric and
antisymmetric wavelets.
Regular and shortest scaling functions.

RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NEURAL NETWORK

CONFIGURATION

Hidden nodes contain the radial basis functions.

Characterised by
-centre()
-width( )

Output depends on

the radial distance between the

input vector x and centre ( )

Response by

-scaling its connecting weights

-summing up all weights

X0

X1

X2

Xi
Input
Layer

Hidden layer

Output
Layer

RBFNN-based compressor and expander structure

RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION BASED NEURAL

NETWORK
High accuracy
Less training time

Simple topology
No local minima problem

Work Done
DWT using spline wavelets was taken.
The resulted signals are again
compressed with radial basis functions
in the hidden neuron..
Mean square error (MSE) was found.

CWT was taken for identification.

Percentage of compression using

DWT and proposed approach
Signals

DWT

Hybrid scheme

Spike

35.79

67.89

Sag

29.36

64.88

Swell

29.77

64.89

Momentary
interruptions
Harmonics

20.52

60.26

23.38

61.69

MSE using DWT and Hybrid scheme

Signals

DWT

Spike

0.499

Hybrid
scheme
0.429

Sag

0.430

0.425

Swell

0.701

0.601

Harmonics

1.497

1.112

Momentary
interruptions

0.368

0.385

DCT

DWT

VOLTAGE SPIKE

Hybrid output for voltage spike

WHY CWT?

Highlights what is happening in the

signal.

Estimation of the instantaneous

average magnitudes and frequencies
using coefficients .
Similarities between the analyzed signal
and sample wavelet functions.

CWT OUTPUT

Conclusion

Presents a new method for power quality

analysis
Superior compression performance than
existing techniques.
Less loss in reconstruction.
Reduces communication burden across
communication systems.

Can be analyzed for both short and long

duration variations in all power system
components.

Future scope
Analysis for fault signals.
Accomplished by Lab View and
EMTP.
Hidden layer weights are adjusted
by the Genetic Algorithm.

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THANKS FOR ALL