A Generalized Approach for Power Quality Disturbances Recognition Based on Kalman Filter

This paper presents a new automatic detection and classification approach of power quality (PQ) problems using Kalman filter. Kalman filter is used as an estimator to calculate the fundamental frequency and harmonic components amplitudes of the voltage or current signals. Then the instantaneous total harmonic distortion (iTHD) and the energy are calculated. For each half cycle of the processed signal, five decision quantities are calculated based on iTHD and energy and these quantities are the three consecutive maximum values of iTHD, standard deviation and energy difference between distorted signal and its fundamental frequency component. Decision rules based on these decision quantities are applied to identify and classify the PQ events in this captured signal. The proposed approach is tested on single and combined PQ events that are generated using the MATLAB with the help of mathematical models that are conformity with standard IEEE-1159. The performance is assessed using more than 100 dataset of every PQ event and the results show that the accuracy is 100 and 98.8 for noiseless and high-level of noise, respectively. In addition, the proposed approach performance is validated through comparisons with other classification. Several practical PQ events are generated by lab experiments to validate the proposed approach. The simulation and experimental results show that the proposed approach is efficient and robust and can be implemented to design PQ monitoring device.