Fault diagnosis for PV arrays considering dust impact based on transformed graphical features of characteristic curves and convolutional neural network with CBAM modules

Jiaqi Qu, Qiang Sun, Zheng Qian, Lu Wei and Hamidreza Zareipour

Applied Energy, 2024, vol. 355, issue C, No S0306261923016161

Abstract: Various faults can occur during the operation of photovoltaic (PV) arrays, and both dust-affected operating conditions and various diode configurations complicate the faults. However, current methods for fault diagnosis based on I-V characteristic curves usually do not effectively use all the distinguishable information contained in the I-V curves or often rely on calibrating the field characteristic curves to standard test conditions (STC). It is difficult to apply these methods in practice and accurately identify multiple complex faults with similarities in different blocking diode configurations of PV arrays under the influence of dust. Therefore, a novel fault-diagnosis method for PV arrays that considers the impact of dust is proposed. In the pre-processing stage, the Isc-Voc normalized Gramian angular difference field (GADF) method is presented, which normalizes and transforms the resampled PV array characteristic curves from the field, including I-V and P-V, to obtain transformed graphical feature matrices. Subsequently, in the fault diagnosis stage, the convolutional neural network (CNN) model with convolutional block attention modules (CBAM) is designed to classify faults, which identifies complex fault types from the transformed graphical matrices containing complete discriminative fault information. In addition, the performances of different graphical feature transformation and CNN-based classification methods are compared using case studies. The results indicate that the developed method for PV arrays with different blocking diode configurations under various operating conditions has high fault diagnosis accuracy and reliability.

Keywords: Photovoltaic; Fault diagnosis; Dust impact; Graphical feature transformation; Characteristic curves (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.122252

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