Open-Circuit Fault Detection and Classification of Modular Multilevel Converters in High Voltage Direct Current Systems (MMC-HVDC) with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Method

Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Fault detection and classification are two of the challenging tasks in Modular Multilevel Converters in High Voltage Direct Current (MMC-HVDC) systems. To classify directly the raw sensor data without certain feature extraction and classifier design, a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network is proposed and used for seven states of the MMC-HVDC transmission power system simulated by Power Systems Computer Aided Design/ Electromagnetic Transients including DC (PSCAD/EMTDC). It is observed that the LSTM method can detect faults with 100% accuracy and classify different faults as well as provide promising fault classification performance. Compared with a bidirectional LSTM (BiLSTM), the LSTM can get similar classification accuracy, requiring less training time and testing time. Compared with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and AutoEncoder-based deep neural networks (AE-based DNN), the LSTM method can get better classification accuracy around the middle of the testing data proportion but it needs more training time. National Natural Science Foundation of China; Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology Agency; Key Laboratory Project of Department of Education of Shaanxi Province