Comparison of different approaches to arc fault location on power transmission lines

This paper presents a three different fault location approaches: one-end Takagi algorithm, two-end algorithm considering natural fault loops and neural network. It is assumed that three-phase voltages and currents from both ends of the line measured asynchronously are the input signals of the fault locator. In addition to natural fault loop signals also use of symmetrical components (positive and negative or incremental positive sequence components) to fault location were considered as well. Results of evaluation study have been included, analyzed and discussed. Influence of filtration have been also considered.