Euclidean Distance-Based Tree Algorithm for Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Photovoltaic Systems

Youssouf Mouleloued, Kamel Kara, Aissa Chouder, Abdelhadi Aouaichia and Santiago Silvestre ()
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Youssouf Mouleloued: Laboratoire des Systèmes Electriques et Télécommande, Faculté de Technologie, Université Blida 1, BP 270, Blida 09000, Algeria
Kamel Kara: Laboratoire des Systèmes Electriques et Télécommande, Faculté de Technologie, Université Blida 1, BP 270, Blida 09000, Algeria
Aissa Chouder: Electrical Engineering Laboratory (LGE), University Mohamed Boudiaf of M’sila, BP 166, M’sila 28000, Algeria
Abdelhadi Aouaichia: Laboratoire des Systèmes Electriques et Télécommande, Faculté de Technologie, Université Blida 1, BP 270, Blida 09000, Algeria
Santiago Silvestre: Department of Electronic Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 08034 Barcelona, Spain

Energies, 2025, vol. 18, issue 7, 1-24

Abstract: In this paper, a new methodology for fault detection and diagnosis in photovoltaic systems is proposed. This method employs a novel Euclidean distance-based tree algorithm to classify various considered faults. Unlike the decision tree, which requires the use of the Gini index to split the data, this algorithm mainly relies on computing distances between an arbitrary point in the space and the entire dataset. Then, the minimum and the maximum distances of each class are extracted and ordered in ascending order. The proposed methodology requires four attributes: Solar irradiance, temperature, and the coordinates of the maximum power point (Impp, Vmpp). The developed procedure for fault detection and diagnosis is implemented and applied to classify a dataset comprising seven distinct classes: normal operation, string disconnection, short circuit of three modules, short circuit of ten modules, and three cases of string disconnection, with 25%, 50%, and 75% of partial shading. The obtained results demonstrate the high efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed methodology, with a classification accuracy reaching 97.33%. A comparison study between the developed fault detection and diagnosis methodology and Support Vector Machine, Decision Tree, Random Forest, and K-Nearest Neighbors algorithms is conducted. The proposed procedure shows high performance against the other algorithms in terms of accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score.

Keywords: fault detection and diagnosis; FDD; supervision algorithm; binary classification; short circuits; partial shading; PV systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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