Series Arc Fault Detection of Indoor Power Distribution System Based on LVQ-NN and PSO-SVM

When a series arc fault occurs in indoor power distribution system, current value of circuit is often less than the threshold of the circuit breaker, but the temperature of arc combustion can be as high as thousands of degrees, which can lead to electrical fire. The arc fault experimental platform is used to collect circuit current data of normal work and arc fault. Five types of loads which are commonly used in indoor distribution system, such as resistive and inductive in series load, resistive load, series motor load, switching power load and eddy current load, are chosen. This paper uses four features of current in time domain, i.e. current average, current pole difference, difference current average and current variance. Ten features of current in frequency domain are extracted by Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). The learning vector quantization neural network (LVQ-NN) is designed to judge the load type. The support vector machine optimized by particle swarm optimization (PSO-SVM) is designed to detect the arc fault. The simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.