A Novel HVDC Double-Terminal Non-Synchronous Fault Location Method Based on Convolutional Neural Network

Due to the difficulty in locating high-resistance grounding faults, this paper proposes a novel fault location method for HVdc transmission lines by considering double-end unsynchronized using Hilbert-Huang transform and one-dimensional convolutional neural network (1D-CNN). After the fault signal is collected at both ends, the proposed method can achieve high-precision fault location, requiring only the two ends data transmission without time synchronization. After Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD), the high-frequency components of the double-terminal fault signals are connected in series to make a characteristic waveform. This waveform contains characteristics of different fault types and distances, which can be learned by CNN. The trained CNN can then be used to achieve fault location effectively. As a comparison, two fault location methods based on traditional traveling wave and machine learning are introduced. Electromagnetic transient simulation software PSCAD/EMTDC has been used to carry out various types of fault simulation on the +/- 500 kV HVdc transmission system. The results show that the proposed method can reliably and accurately locate line faults under fault resistance up to 5200 Omega.