Transformer Fault Identification with an IF-1DCNN Based on Informative Integration of Heterogeneous Sources

Abstract

Only using single feature information as input feature cannot fully reflect the transformer fault classification and improve the accuracy of transformer fault diagnosis. To address the above problem, the convolution neural networks’ model is applied for transformer fault assessment designed to implement an end-to-end “different space feature extraction + transformer state diagnosis classification” to enable information from possibly heterogeneous sources to be integrated. This method integrates various feature information of the power transformer operation state to form the isomeric feature, and the model can be used to automatically extract different feature spaces’ information from isomeric feature quantity using its unique one-dimensional convolution and pooling operations. The performance of the proposed approach is compared with that of other models, such as a support vector machine (SVM), backpropagation neural network (BPNN), deep belief network (DBNs), and others. The experimental results show that the proposed one-dimensional convolution neural networks based on an isomeric feature (IF-1DCNN) can accurately classify the fault state of transformer and reduce the adverse interaction between different feature space information in the mixed feature, which has a good engineering application prospect.