Journal of Electrical Engineering ›› 2016, Vol. 11 ›› Issue (8): 23-29.doi: 10.11985/2016.08.004

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Recognition of Series Arc Fault Based on K-Means Clustering

Changken Chen,Yanli Liu,Ying Li   

  1. Liaoning Technical University Huludao 125105 China
  • Received:2016-02-21 Online:2016-08-25 Published:2016-08-25

Abstract:

In view of the fire and other accidents caused by series arc fault in a power supply and distribution system, an experimental device of series arc fault is developed and a lots of experiments about typical loads are carried out. Firstly, the first 20 times harmonic content of the current before and after arc fault are extracted by Fourier transform. Secondly, the dimension of sample data is reduced by using principal component analysis(PCA). A few main components are extracted to reflect the fluctuations of current signal. Finally, the main harmonic data are analyzed by K-means clustering to determine whether the fault occurred in original signal. The results show that the series arc fault could be recognized through principal component analysis and K-means clustering.

Key words: Series arc fault, harmonic content, principal component analysis, K-means clustering

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