A novel single-ended fault location scheme for parallel transmission lines using k-nearest neighbor algorithm

This paper proposes k-nearest neighbour (k-NN)-based method for fault location estimation of all types of fault in parallel lines using one-terminal measurement. Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) is used for pre-processing the signals and then the standard deviation of one cycle of pre-fault and one cycle of post-fault samples are used as inputs to k-NN algorithm. The results obtained under various fault conditions demonstrate the high accuracy of the proposed scheme to estimate the fault location. The accuracy of the k-NN-based fault location scheme is not affected by alteration in fault type including inter-circuit faults, fault location, fault inception angle, fault resistance, and pre-fault load angle.