A new hybrid pattern recognition scheme for automatic discrimination of power quality disturbances

In this paper an intelligent method for automatic detection of Power Quality Disturbances (PQDs) is presented. The proposed automatic scheme is noticed to retaining informative features or eliminating redundant features simultaneously. This paper presents an effective method, for extracting features, so-called integrated approach, using integration of Discrete Wavelet Transform and Hyperbolic S Transform. Moreover, a new efficient feature selection method namely Orthogonal Forward Selection by incorporating Gram Schmidt procedure and forward selection is applied for selection of the best subset features. Some different classifiers are empirically compared in order to determine the best classifier. In this automatic scheme, the variable parameters of classifiers are optimized using a powerful method namely Particle Swarm Optimization. The sensitivity of the proposed method under noisy conditions has been investigated. The average rate of correct classification using the proposed hybrid scheme for automatic discrimination of PQDs in various noise conditions 99.55% is obtained. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.