General Machine Learning-Based Approach to Pulse Classification for Separation of Partial Discharges and Interference
Emanuèle Ogliari, Maciej Sakwa, Jianguo Wei, Weilin Liu, Benjamin Schubert, Mauro Palo
Abstract
This paper describes a complete approach to filtering Partial Discharge (PD) pulses from interference in High Voltage electrical equipment using supervised Machine Learning (ML) techniques. The PD signals are registered in Ultra High Frequency radiation band with a multisensor acquisition system composed of 4 antennae. The proposed methodology focuses on the implementation ML algorithms and proposes a novel in this field approach to the onset detection of incoming signals. The goal was to achieve high accuracy of filtering with reasonably low compilation times of the ML classifier. That would allow to use the model on edge sensor devices. In the paper, different models and training variants of the ML framework are tested. The presented results are based on a robust measurement campaign performed in laboratories of GEIRI Europe. The methodology is validated through tests on 3 separate test scenarios. Each represents a different complexity of the problem with an increasing number of active sources. The results show high potential for utilization of the ANN and other classifiers for PD filtering problems as the accuracy achieves the desired threshold of 80% for most of the tested variants. The methodology is a step forward toward a fully online PD and interference filter.