Morphological undecimated wavelet decomposition for fault location on power transmission lines

This paper presents a novel morphological undecimated wavelet (MUDW) decomposition scheme for fault location on power transmission lines. The MUDW scheme is developed based on the morphological wavelet (MW) theory for both the extraction of transient features and noise reduction in signal processing. The analysis operators and the synthesis operator of MUDW strictly satisfy the pyramid condition. In this paper, the MUDW scheme is used to extract features from noise imposed fault-generated transient voltage and/or current signals of power transmission lines. The efficiency of the MUDW scheme used for noise reduction and the extraction of sudden changes in the transient signals are evaluated in simulation studies. The simulation results show that the fault location can be accurately detected in noisy environments