A Restoration Aid Expert System for Distribution Substations

This paper presents a practical restoration aid expert system for 154 kV distribution substations. The proposed expert system has a topology-based simple structure and utilizes basic rules suggested by the Korean electric power company including heuristic rules, topology identification rules and search rules to generate switching sequences for feasible restoration processes. In this paper, the general system structure as well as rules and data representations are discussed. The expert system is realized using an HP9000 workstation. X-window and Motif shells are used for the user-friendly GUI. The system has been tested in a practical sub-control center as a part of an intelligent fault diagnosis and restoration aid system to assist the decision making of SCADA operators.