Analytics of Waveform Distortion Variations in Railway Pantograph Measurements by Deep Learning

• Waveform distortion in general represent a widespread problem in electrified transports due to interference, service disruption, increased losses and ageing of components. Given the multitude of moving sources and the extremely variable operating conditions, short time records must be considered for analysis, and this increases in turn its complexity, from which the need for effective automated processing, as offered by a deep learning (DL) approach. This paper proposes an application of unsupervised DL to measurements of railway pantograph quantities to identify waveform distortion patterns. Data consists of pantograph current from a Swiss 15 kV 16.7 Hz railway system. Three DL input types are considered: waveforms, harmonic spectra, and supraharmonic spectra. The applied DL method applied is the deep autoencoder (DAE) followed by feature clustering, using techniques to define a suitable number of clusters. Short-term distortion is evaluated over sub-10 min intervals of harmonic and supraharmonic spectra down to sub-second intervals. Results are explained among others by connecting the distribution of the clusters (determined by self-supervised method) to the dynamic operating conditions of the rolling stock. Resulting DAE performance are superior in terms of accuracy and comprehensiveness of spectral components compared to a more traditional principal component analysis (PCA) that was chosen as reference for comparison.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Annan elektroteknik och elektronik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering (hsv//eng)

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Autoencoder

clustering

deep learning (DL)

pattern analysis

power quality (PQ)

power system harmonics

unsupervised learning

Electric Power Engineering

Elkraftteknik

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