Classification of multiple power quality events via compressed deep learning

This paper presents a recently established compressed sensing (CS) and sparse autoencoder (SAE) based on deep learning (DL) method for classification of single and multiple power quality disturbances (PQDs). The CS technique is paying considerable attention in recent years due to below sampling rate comparatively Nyquist sampling. Initially, the CS technique is applied to extract the features of PQD waveforms. The extracted features are applied as inputs to the sparse autoencoder based on DL for classification of nine single and 22 combined classes of PQDs. The DL helps to remove a redundant feature and improves classification performance. Finally, backpropagation is applied to fine-tune the entire network. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm has been tested with more than 6580 numbers of real and synthetic single and multiple PQD data, and the results are recorded. High correct classification rate is obtained with noise and without noise level. Noise level was considered from 20 to 50 dB. The performance of the proposed technique has been assessed by comparing the results against recently reported methods. Results show that the proposed CS- and SAE-based DL algorithms can be efficiently used for single and multiple PQDs classifications.