Effective fault module localization in substation critical equipment: an improved ant colony optimization and back propagation neural network approach

Abstract

Abstract The rapid development of substations has increased the demand for accurate and fast fault prediction systems. In order to achieve rapid localization and autonomous decision‐making of fault modules and types in substations, the article proposes a fault autonomous localization algorithm based on improved ant colony optimization (IACO) and back propagation neural network (BPNN). The fault data of the substation secondary equipment for training and testing the BPNN model is based on the actual operating equipment of the substation, which can significantly improve the reliability of the model results. In addition, the IACO is used to globally optimize the weights and thresholds of BPNN, and the number of hidden layer nodes in BPNN was analyzed to further improve the accuracy of the established fault prediction algorithm. The test results show that the fault prediction accuracy of the BPNN model optimized by IACO is 93.67%, which is significantly improved compared to the traditional BPNN and BPNN with ant colony optimization method (with an accuracy of 82.98% and 91.04%). The above results effectively demonstrate the high accuracy and effectiveness of the established prediction algorithm in processing data and locating faults, which can improve the maintenance and operational efficiency of substations.