A two-stage deep transfer learning for localisation of forced oscillations disturbance source

Abstract Accurately locating forced oscillations (FOs) disturbance source in a large-scale power system is a challenging task. In this paper, a localisation method featuring system-level and area-level localisation is proposed. Compared with traditional localisation methods which process the FOs signals only in control centre phasor data concentrator (PDC), the proposed method can not only relieve the data communication pressure, but also meets the data privacy and confidentiality requirements of utility companies. Besides, with the two-stage deep transfer learning, high accuracy of localisation can be realised with far less training. Firstly, by adopting principle component analysis (PCA) to extract the most representative information at system-level and smooth pseudo Wigner-Ville distribution (SPWVD) to characterize FOs signals, graphical representations of FOs at system-level and area-level are obtained respectively, transforming the localisation problem to image recognition problem. Subsequently, a two-stage deep transfer learning (DTL) algorithm is developed to locate FOs disturbance source. The first stage involves repurposing the learnt features from a pre-trained deep convolutional neural network (previously trained for universal image recognition) to improve the learning of system-level localisation. In a similar logic, the second stage entails transferring the knowledge acquired from the first stage is exploited to aid area-level localisation learning. Case studies carried out on the WECC 179-bus system demonstrate that the proposed method achieves a significantly higher accuracy in the presence of measurement noise, topology variation and load disturbances of the system with respect to the traditional machine learning method. The proposed method also exhibits a more favorable computational performance and learning efficiency due to the employment of the tactfully designed two-stage DTL approach.