ANN-BASED ALGORITHM FOR POWER TRANSMISSION LINE FAULT LOCATION

Abstract

Accurate location of faults on power transmission lines can save both time and money for the electric utility industry. Line search for faults is costly and time consuming. Prompt acquisition of accurate information in a format useful to the system operator is essential for fast fault localization. It would therefore be desirable to use a knowledge-based approach to localize transmission line faults as fast as possible and with a high degree of accuracy. This paper highlights the application of the concept of artificial neural network based algorithm in detecting, classifying and locating different electric transmission lines faults. The fault detection algorithm highlighted in this paper is error back propagation algorithm.