A Neural Network Approach to Physical Information Embedding for Optimal Power Flow

Chenyuchuan Liu, Yan Li () and Tianqi Xu
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Chenyuchuan Liu: School of Electrical and Information Technology, Yunnan Minzu University, Kunming 650504, China
Yan Li: School of Electrical and Information Technology, Yunnan Minzu University, Kunming 650504, China
Tianqi Xu: School of Electrical and Information Technology, Yunnan Minzu University, Kunming 650504, China

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 17, 1-16

Abstract: With the increasing share of renewable energy in the power system, traditional power flow calculation methods are facing challenges of complexity and efficiency. To address these issues, this paper proposes a new framework for AC optimal power flow analysis based on a physics-informed convolutional neural network (PICNN) approach, which enables the neural network to learn solutions that follow physical laws by embedding the power flow equations and other physical constraints into the loss function of the network. Compared with the traditional power flow calculation method, the calculation speed of this method is improved by 10–30 times. Compared to traditional neural network models, the method provides higher accuracy, with an average increase in accuracy of up to 2.5–10 times. In addition, this paper introduces a methodology to extract worst-case guarantees for violations of the neural network’s predicted power generation constraints, determining the worst possible violation that could result from any neural network output across the entire input domain, and taking appropriate measures to reduce the violation. The method is experimentally shown to be highly accurate and reliable for the AC optimal power flow (AC-OPF) analysis problem, while reducing the dependence on a large amount of labelled data.

Keywords: AC-OPF; physics-informed convolutional neural network; worst-case guarantees (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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