Classification of Power Quality Events Using Optimal Time-Frequency Representations—Part 2: Application

Classification of power-quality (PQ)-related voltage and current waveform disturbances is a key task for power system monitoring. A new method based on the optimized time-frequency representation (TFR) has been proposed in the first paper [1] of this two-paper series. This paper (the second paper) presents a case study of PQ event classification with the proposed method. The classification algorithm has been successfully tested with 860 real world PQ events that cover five classes, achieving a recognition rate of 98%. The algorithm is implemented on a digital signal processor (DSP) based hardware system and optimized according to the DSP architecture to meet the hard real-time constraints. The DSP-based system is capable of processing a five-cycle (83.3 ms) PQ waveform within 11.2 ms. The real-time computing capability of the algorithm has been verified with this result. The scalability of this method is also discussed.