Abstract
•Classification of unknown composite PQD variations with high performance using known PQD variations.•Development of an adaptive CNN architecture that is responsive to different numbers of IMF inputs.•Flexible architecture is suitable for working with different signal processing methods such as EMD and VMD.•High classification performance compared to current state-of-the-art methods.
Distributed generation (DG) sources are preferred to meet today's energy needs effectively. The addition of many different types of renewable energy sources to the grid causes various problems in signal quality. Detection and classification of these problems increase efficiency by both the producer and the consumer. In the literature, incredibly singular and some composite power quality disturbance (PQD) detection is performed effectively. However, the multitude of composite PQD variations degrades the performance of existing algorithms. In this study, the classification of all PQD variations that may occur is performed by using singular PQD and some composite PQD signals. A different number of subcomponents representing the signal are created according to each signal characteristic. Instantaneous energies from these subcomponents are used as deep learning (DL) input. Deep learning cycles are created as much as the instantaneous energy number of each signal. Each cycle has specific features of defining a single event. Therefore, the proposed approach is able to classify composite PQD signals that it has not encountered before. The proposed method's performance is first evaluated with the known PQD events and compared with the current state-of-the-art methods in the literature. Then, a dataset containing the combinations of different events not encountered during the training is created, and the performance is evaluated on this dataset. In the experiments performed, it is revealed that the proposed framework produces higher performance than other state-of-the-art methods