Artificial neural networks as a dispatcher´s aid in alarm processing

The authors propose a method by which a set of artificial neural networks (ANNs) can be used as a dispatchers´ aid in alarm processing. The proposed model consists of two parts-a rule based system and a set of neural networks. Depending on the input that is fed to the system, a set of rules that make up the rule based system, are used to activate one or more ANNs. Each ANN in the system is used to identify the faults in a single sub-station or a particular zone. The rule based system is also used to aid the ANNs in identifying multiple faults, by activating them in the required order and providing them with the necessary alarms as inputs