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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Phys.

Sec. Social Physics

Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fphy.2025.1624919

This article is part of the Research TopicSecurity, Governance, and Challenges of the New Generation of Cyber-Physical-Social Systems, Volume IIView all 11 articles

Grid Fault Diagnosis Based on Deep Pyramid Convolutional Neural Network

Provisionally accepted
Tian  LanTian Lan*Yuezhou  WuYuezhou WuChen  WangChen Wang
  • Power Dispatching and Control Center of Guangdong Power Grid, Guangzhou, China

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The traditional power grid fault d iagnosis method relies on manual experience w hen dealing with massive alarm information, ha s a complex modeling process and insufficient generalization ability, and lacks direct diagnosti c research on alarm information text. Therefore, we propose an intelligent fault diagnosis meth od based on the Deep Pyramid Convolutional Neural Network (DPCNN). This method builds an end-to-end fault classification model and key information extraction model to directly mine the implicit fault features from the alarm infor mation text, achieving accurate classification of fault types and rapid location of faulty equip ment. Comparative experiments show that the proposed method performs well in complex po wer grid scenarios and noisy data environments, with the highest fault classification accuracy o f up to 100%, and can effectively identify mult iple fault types such as simple faults, switch fai lure to operate, and protection failure to opera te. In addition, we also integrate this method with the time-sequence-priority fault equipment identification strategy to further improve the a ccuracy of fault location. The case study verific ation shows that our method has a fault recog nition rate of up to 99.5%, and can achieve 98. 7% accurate positioning after eliminating one b y one through the identification strategy, signifi cantly reducing manual intervention and having a high application value in the actual power g rid.

Keywords: Deep Pyramid Convolutional Ne ural Network, power grid fault diagnosis, Ala rm Information Text, feature extraction, Fault classification

Received: 08 May 2025; Accepted: 18 Aug 2025.

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* Correspondence: Tian Lan, Power Dispatching and Control Center of Guangdong Power Grid, Guangzhou, China

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