Artificial Intelligence Based Fault Detection and Classification in Power Systems: An Automated Machine Learning Approach

With the growing requirements to keep the security of supply higher than ever the room for failures is getting smaller in today's power systems, while the increased integration of distributed renewable energy sources is additionally complicating fault detection. By using big data that is collected in modern power systems, artificial intelligence algorithms can significantly improve the capabilities of traditional protection schemes. However, the choice of the artificial intelligence algorithm can significantly impact the scheme accuracy. This paper analyses a novel approach for power system fault detection and classification by using automated machine learning procedure that iterates over different data transformations, machine learning algorithms, and hyperparameters to select the best model. By simulating and testing tens of thousands of fault scenarios on a realistic test system, the suggested approach resulted with robustness and high accuracy.