Nontechnical Loss Detection With Duffing–Holmes Self-Synchronization Dynamic Errors and 1D CNN-Based Multilayer Classifier in a Smart Grid

The combined Duffing–Holmes (D–H)–based quantizer and one-dimensional (1D) convolutional neural network (CNN)-based multilayer classifier were applied to perform the nontechnical loss (NTL’s) (electricity fraud) feature quantification, feature extraction, and classification tasks to analyze electricity consumption data and to identify either normal or abnormal consumption patterns for NTL detection. The metering data is gathered every 15 minutes and a 3-hour screening window is used to distinguish between the normal conditions and likely NTL events or power outage events. The D–H-based quantizer in the feature quantification layer may quantify the different levels among three events for preliminary screening differences using D–H self-synchronization dynamic errors. In the feature extraction layer, two 1D convolutional-pooling processes are used to extract 1D key feature signals to enhance the distinguished levels for further classification applications. The gray relational analysis (GRA)-based multilayer network is trained as a classifier. In the classification layer, to identify electricity fraud events. The proposed method is verified and validated using simulation data and the electricity fraud attack model. The correlation coefficient and unitary averaged changed intensity index are applied in correlation analysis to discover apparent abnormality between historical consumption and metering consumption patterns within the short-time monitoring. The D-H-based quantizer and 1D CNN-based classifier then work together to accomplish classification tasks on the time-series metering data. The experimental results show that the suggested classifier model demonstrates promising performance and efficiency compared to the traditional multilayer classifier in feature extraction, training, and recall processing, and accurate classification.