A non-intrusive load recognition method combining adaptive PSO algorithm and CNN model

Abstract

Real-time monitoring of electricity usage details through load monitoring techniques is a crucial aspect of smart power grid management and monitoring, allowing for the acquisition of information on the electricity usage of individual appliances for power users. Accurate detection of electricity load is essential for refined load management and monitoring of power supply quality, facilitating the improvement of power management at the user side and enhancing power operation efficiency. Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) techniques require only the analysis of total load data to achieve load monitoring of electricity usage details, and offer advantages such as low cost, easy implementation, high reliability, and user acceptance. However, with the increasing number of distributed new load devices on the user side and the diversification of device development, simple load recognition algorithms are insufficient to meet the identification needs of multiple devices and achieve high recognition accuracy. To address this issue, a non-intrusive load recognition (NILR) model that combines an adaptive particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSO) and convolutional neural network (CNN) has been proposed. In this model, pixelated images of different electrical V-I trajectories are used as inputs for the CNN, and the optimal network layer and convolutional kernel size are determined by the adaptive PSO optimization algorithm during the CNN training process. The proposed model has been validated on the public dataset PLAID, and experimental results demonstrate that it has achieved a overall recognition accuracy of 97.26% and F-1 score of 96.92%, significantly better than other comparison models. The proposed model effectively reduces the confusion between various devices, exhibiting good recognition and generalization capabilities.