POWER QUALITY DISTURBANCE CLASSIFICATION USING S-TRANSFORM AND RADIAL BASIS NETWORK

This article presents an artificial neural network (ANN)-based approach for power quality (PQ) disturbance classification. The input features of the ANN are extracted using S-transform. The features obtained from the S-transform are distinct, understandable, and immune to noise. These features after normalization are given to radial basis function (RBF) neural networks. The data required to develop the network are generated by simulating various faults in a test system. The proposed method requires a lesser number of features and less memory space without losing its original property. The simulation results show that the proposed method is effective and can classify the disturbance signals even under a noisy environment.