Enhancing accuracy while reducing computation complexity for Voltage-Sag-based distribution fault location

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1202-1212

  Dong, Yimai ^a   Zheng, Ce ^a   Kezunovic, Mladen ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision trees (DTs); fault location; optimal sensor placement; power distribution; voltage sags

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION COMPLEXITY; DECISION TREES (DTS); DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL SENSOR PLACEMENT; POWER DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIAL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; VARIABLE IMPORTANCES; VOLTAGE SAGS;

DECISION TREES; ELECTRIC FAULT LOCATION; FORESTRY; OPTIMIZATION; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT; VOLTAGE STABILIZING CIRCUITS;

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; OPTIMIZATION; SENSORS; TREES;

EID: 84875652829     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2013.2247639     Document Type: Article

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