Expert system reasoning streamlines disturbance analysis

Author

Kezunovic, M. ; Rikalo, I. ; Fromen, C.W. ; Sevcik, D.R.

Author_Institution

Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, USA

Volume

7

Issue

2

fYear

1994

fDate

4/1/1994 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

15

Lastpage

19

Abstract

Houston Lighting & Power funded Texas A&M to develop an expert system based automatic disturbance analysis system that would satisfy the following requirements: PC-based system for substation application; direct interface to the existing digital fault recorder (DFR) system; graphical user interface (GUI) for viewing of results; database management for storing results; and a modem interface to the protection engineer. The system was developed and extensively tested using Electromagnetic Transient Program (EMTP) simulations and actual disturbance records captured by DFRs at various substations. Since then, the system has been connected to a substation DFR for online monitoring of disturbances. This article points out some design and implementation issues and highlights performance validation and operating experience related to the expert system.<>

Keywords

computerised instrumentation; expert systems; failure analysis; fault location; microcomputer applications; power system analysis computing; power system measurement; Electromagnetic Transient Program simulation; Houston Lighting & Power; Texas A&M; automatic disturbance analysis system; database management; digital fault recorder; direct interface; expert system; graphical user interface; knowledge acquisition; modem interface; online monitoring; operating experience; rule definition; substation application; Data engineering; Databases; EMTP; Energy management; Engineering management; Expert systems; Graphical user interfaces; Modems; Power system management; Substation protection;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer Applications in Power, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0895-0156

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/67.273781

Filename

273781