A novel hybrid deep learning approach including combination of 1D power signals and 2D signal images for power quality disturbance classification

As a result of the widespread use of power electronic equipment and the increase in consumption, the importance of effective energy policies and the smart grid begins to increase. Nonlinear loads and other loads in electric power systems are considered as the main reason for power quality disturbance. Distortions in signal quality and shape due to power quality disturbance cause a decrease in total efficiency. The proposed hybrid convolutional neural network method consists of a 1D convolutional neural network structure and a 2D convolutional neural network structure. The features acquired by these two convolutional neural network architectures are classified using the fully connected layer, which is traditionally used as the classifier of convolutional neural network architectures. Power signals are processed using a 1D convolutional neural network in their original form. Then these signals are converted into images and processed using a 2D convolutional neural network. Then, feature vectors generated by 1D and 2D convolutional neural networks are combined. Finally, this combined vector is classified by a fully connected layer. The proposed method is well suited to the nature of signal processing. It is a novel approach that covers the steps of an expert examining a signal. The proposed framework is compared with other state-of-the-art power quality disturbance classification methods in the literature. While the proposed method's classification performance is relatively high compared to other methods, the computational complexity is almost the same.