Machine Learning Based Intentional Islanding Algorithm for DERs in Disaster Management

Abstract

Currently, research work is primarily dependent on the collection of large sets of data from systems and making predictions based on the knowledge obtained from the data, which is generally termed as ‘data mining’. These data mining algorithms are of great importance in improving the performance of different applications. In this regard, Machine Learning (ML) algorithms have been demonstrated to be excellent tools to cope with difficult problems. In this paper, a classification learner based supervised ML algorithm is proposed for intentional islanding of DERs based on the live data collected from supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system in post disaster situations. Literature presents various islanding detection techniques and also intentional islanding algorithms to address different problems in AC networks. These algorithms majorly work based on the control of current source or voltage source inverters. On the other hand, a low voltage DC distribution system allowing the removal of inverter is proposed, which is supposed to be more advantageous by reducing losses and is also economical when working with DERs. In this paper, ML based intentional islanding algorithm for DERs based low voltage DC distribution system is proposed by considering the effects of natural disasters. The learner models trained are fine tree, linear SVM, quadratic SVM and Gaussian SVM. The training of fine tree model is achieved with higher accuracy of 99.8%. The main objective of this work is to achieve a faster and accurate decision making. The performance of the ML based intentional islanding algorithm is compared with the earlier proposed artificial intelligence (AI) based intentional islanding algorithms. The AI algorithms proposed earlier are fuzzy inference systems (FIS), artificial neural networks (ANN) and adaptive network based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS). The comparison shows that, the decision making with ML based intentional islanding algorithm is faster and accurate than all other algorithms.