Distribution Network Regionalized Fault Location Based on an Improved Manta Ray Foraging Optimization Algorithm

Abstract

To address the problem that the accuracy of traditional intelligent algorithms in distribution network fault location decreases with the expansion of distribution network scale, a regionalized fault location method for distribution networks containing distributed power sources based on the improved manta ray foraging optimization (IMRFO) algorithm is proposed. First, the global convergence property of the basic manta ray foraging optimization (MRFO) algorithm is improved by fusing the restart strategy and the opposition-based learning strategy. Then, based on the two-port equivalence principle, a topological model for regionalized fault hierarchical localization in distribution networks is constructed. Finally, the algorithm is improved by binary discretization using the Sigmoid function to output the fault vector and complete the fault location of the distribution network. Simulation experiments are conducted using MATLAB for IEEE-33 node distribution networks and the simulation results show that the IMRFO algorithm combined with the regionalization of complex distribution networks has a better effect of dimensionality reduction. Compared with the traditional distribution network simulation model, the fault location fault tolerance is greatly improved and its accuracy rate is increased by 1.8% and the location speed is improved by 15.537 ms.