Benchmarking Machine Learning Models for Fault Classification and Localization in Power System Protection
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| author | Oelhaf, Julian Kordowich, Georg Kim, Changhun Pérez-Toro, Paula Andrea Bergler, Christian Maier, Andreas Jäger, Johann Bayer, Siming |
| author_facet | Oelhaf, Julian Kordowich, Georg Kim, Changhun Pérez-Toro, Paula Andrea Bergler, Christian Maier, Andreas Jäger, Johann Bayer, Siming |
| contents | The increasing integration of distributed energy resources (DERs), particularly renewables, poses significant challenges for power system protection, with fault classification (FC) and fault localization (FL) being among the most critical tasks. Conventional protection schemes, based on fixed thresholds, cannot reliably identify and localize short circuits with the increasing complexity of the grid under dynamic conditions. Machine learning (ML) offers a promising alternative; however, systematic benchmarks across models and settings remain limited. This work presents, for the first time, a comparative benchmarking study of classical ML models for FC and FL in power system protection based on EMT data. Using voltage and current waveforms segmented into sliding windows of 10 ms to 50 ms, we evaluate models under realistic real-time constraints. Performance is assessed in terms of accuracy, robustness to window size, and runtime efficiency. The best-performing FC model achieved an F1 score of 0.992$\pm$0.001, while the top FL model reached an R2 of 0.806$\pm$0.008 with a mean processing time of 0.563 ms. |
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| spellingShingle | Benchmarking Machine Learning Models for Fault Classification and Localization in Power System Protection Oelhaf, Julian Kordowich, Georg Kim, Changhun Pérez-Toro, Paula Andrea Bergler, Christian Maier, Andreas Jäger, Johann Bayer, Siming Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Signal Processing The increasing integration of distributed energy resources (DERs), particularly renewables, poses significant challenges for power system protection, with fault classification (FC) and fault localization (FL) being among the most critical tasks. Conventional protection schemes, based on fixed thresholds, cannot reliably identify and localize short circuits with the increasing complexity of the grid under dynamic conditions. Machine learning (ML) offers a promising alternative; however, systematic benchmarks across models and settings remain limited. This work presents, for the first time, a comparative benchmarking study of classical ML models for FC and FL in power system protection based on EMT data. Using voltage and current waveforms segmented into sliding windows of 10 ms to 50 ms, we evaluate models under realistic real-time constraints. Performance is assessed in terms of accuracy, robustness to window size, and runtime efficiency. The best-performing FC model achieved an F1 score of 0.992$\pm$0.001, while the top FL model reached an R2 of 0.806$\pm$0.008 with a mean processing time of 0.563 ms. |
| title | Benchmarking Machine Learning Models for Fault Classification and Localization in Power System Protection |
| topic | Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Signal Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00831 |