Recognition of High-Voltage Cable Partial Discharge Signal Based on Adaptive Fuzzy C-Means Clustering

Abstract

Partial discharge (PD) detection is an effective means to find high-voltage cable defects. However, various interference signals affect the PD signal in practical applications, resulting in wrong judgment. In order to improve the accuracy of PD detection of high voltage cables, an adaptive fuzzy C-means (FCM) clustering was proposed to identify PD signals. The adaptive threshold pulse extraction algorithm based on fixed interval width was employed. The threshold was changed adaptively to extract the effective PD pulse waveform according to the change of the background noise and the degree of PD. Then PD pulse features were analyzed in time and frequency domain by employing the equivalent time frequency analysis method. The adaptive fuzzy clustering algorithm was used to classify the signals. The phase distribution concentration of all kinds of pulse signal was calculated. The phase standard deviation of various types of pulse was taken as the index that measures the concentration of density to distinguish between PD and interference signals. Results show that the adaptive FCM clustering algorithm, compared with the traditional method, can not only identify the PD signal accurately, but also be conscious of the PD category. The PD recognition method proposed in this paper has strong applicability and high accuracy, which is particularly suitable for application in the field of engineering.