Self attention convolutional neural network with time series imaging based feature extraction for transmission line fault detection and classification

Abstract This paper introduces a novel self-attention convolutional neural network (SAT-CNN) model for detection and classification (FDC) of transmission line faults. The transmission lines continuously experience the number of shunt faults and its effect in the practical system rises the instability, line restoration cost and damages the load. Therefore, a robust and precise model is needed to detect and classify the faults for the rapid restoration of faulty phases. In this paper, we propose a SAT-CNN framework with time series imaging based feature extraction model for FDC of a transmission line. To ensure the noise immunity performance, the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) has been used to denoise the faulty voltage and current signals. The effectiveness of the proposed SAT-CNN framework is tested by varying the input signals namely voltage, current, and combined voltage and current signal, under the various sampling frequencies. The robustness of the proposed model is verified by adding the noises to the input data. Results show that the proposed model is capable to perform precise classification and detection of transmission line faults with high accuracy. A comparison between the proposed and other state-of-the-art FDC model is also studied to show the superiority of the proposed SAT-CNN model.