1. A Novel Approach to Classify Power Quality Signals Using Vision Transformers
- Author
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Saber, Ahmad Mohammad, Selim, Alaa, Hammad, Mohamed M., Youssef, Amr, Kundur, Deepa, and El-Saadany, Ehab
- Subjects
Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Signal Processing ,Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ,Computer Science - Machine Learning ,Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Image and Video Processing - Abstract
With the rapid integration of electronically interfaced renewable energy resources and loads into smart grids, there is increasing interest in power quality disturbances (PQD) classification to enhance the security and efficiency of these grids. This paper introduces a new approach to PQD classification based on the Vision Transformer (ViT) model. When a PQD occurs, the proposed approach first converts the power quality signal into an image and then utilizes a pre-trained ViT to accurately determine the class of the PQD. Unlike most previous works, which were limited to a few disturbance classes or small datasets, the proposed method is trained and tested on a large dataset with 17 disturbance classes. Our experimental results show that the proposed ViT-based approach achieves PQD classification precision and recall of 98.28% and 97.98%, respectively, outperforming recently proposed techniques applied to the same dataset., Comment: IECON 2024-50th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Chicago, U.S.A, 2024, pp. 1-6
- Published
- 2024