A Fault Classification Method of Photovoltaic Array Based on Probabilistic Neural Network

The energy crisis has promoted the development of solar photovoltaic power generation systems, but during the operation of solar panels, there will be hidden troubles such as ground fault, line-to-line fault, open-circuit fault, short-circuits fault and the hot spots. This will cause serious obstacles to the power generation of photovoltaic systems. Therefore, the immediate diagnosis and elimination of the fault of the photovoltaic system is the guarantee for the stable operation of the photovoltaic system. To address these issues, this paper makes contribution in the following Three aspects: (1) Building a 4x3 PV array model based on the key points and model parameters extracted from PV array by using Matlab, an efficient feature vector of five dimensions is proposed as the input of the fault diagnosis model; (2) The probabilistic neural network (PNN) is proposed as the fault classification tools, and achieving a good classification effect by using the simulated data after normalization to classify; (3) Performing the field test and inputting the experimental data into PNN for classification, with an accuracy of 97%. Both the simulation and experimental results show that the PNN can achieve high accuracy classification, provide a more favorable premise basis for the intelligent classification of faults in photovoltaic arrays.