ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING | POWER GRID RELIABILITY
Improved 3DCNN-based Tripping Prediction Method Due to Lightning Strikes on Transmission Lines Under Unbalanced Samples
Lightning strikes pose a significant threat to power grid reliability, causing costly transmission line trips. Traditional prediction models struggle to capture complex spatial-temporal lightning patterns and handle imbalanced datasets. This research introduces an innovative improved 3DCNN method that accurately predicts lightning-induced transmission line tripping, enhancing grid stability and reducing economic losses through proactive operational adjustments.
Executive Impact: Mitigating Grid Disruptions
This advanced AI solution provides power grid operators with unprecedented foresight into lightning-induced tripping events, enabling proactive measures to safeguard infrastructure and maintain continuous power supply. Key benefits include:
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Advanced 3DCNN Architecture for Spatial-Temporal Prediction
Our method leverages an improved 3D Convolutional Neural Network (3DCNN), specifically designed to capture complex spatial and temporal patterns of lightning activity. Unlike traditional 2D CNNs, the 3DCNN processes data across dimensions of space (latitude, longitude) and time (sequential 5-minute intervals). The architecture incorporates Resnet layer-jumping connections to prevent degradation and facilitate optimization, allowing the network to learn residual mappings more effectively. Furthermore, Squeeze-and-Excitation (SE) modules are integrated to dynamically recalibrate channel-wise feature responses, enabling the model to pay focused attention to the most salient lightning characteristics. This robust design ensures high prediction accuracy while maintaining computational efficiency.
Intelligent Data Matrix Construction & Imbalance Compensation
To effectively feed the 3DCNN, we developed a novel high-dimensional input matrix construction method. This involves gridding the geographical area and dividing lightning activity data into 5-minute segments over a 15-minute window. For each grid and time segment, key features like the number of lightning strikes, maximum current amplitude, and average current amplitude are extracted and z-score standardized to normalize scales. A critical challenge in real-world power grid data is the imbalance between tripping and non-tripping samples. To address this, our model incorporates a focal loss function during training. Focal loss dynamically down-weights easy-to-classify samples, thereby increasing the relative importance of hard, misclassified samples (i.e., the rare tripping events), significantly enhancing the model's ability to learn from and accurately predict these critical occurrences.
Rigorous Validation & Superior Performance
The proposed improved 3DCNN model was rigorously validated using real-world data from a southern China power grid (2016-2020), including 961 normal and 364 tripping samples. Performance was assessed using Overall Prediction Accuracy (PACC) and F1-score, which are crucial for evaluating models on imbalanced datasets. Our model achieved a remarkable 94.16% PACC on unbalanced samples, significantly outperforming traditional 3DCNN (54.17%) and 2DCNN (31.67%) models. This improvement is coupled with substantial efficiency gains: a 53.06% reduction in parameters and a 43.43% reduction in time complexity compared to standard 3DCNN. The introduction of focal loss proved instrumental, boosting accuracy on unbalanced samples by several percentage points compared to models trained with cross-entropy loss.
Enterprise Process Flow: Lightning Trip Prediction
LLS Monitoring Data + Trip Records
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High-Dimensional Input Matrix Construction
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Improved 3DCNN Model Training (Resnet, SE, Focal Loss)
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Real-time Prediction (Trip Determination & Location)
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Proactive Grid Operation Adjustments
Key Performance Indicator
94.16% Overall Prediction Accuracy on Unbalanced Samples| Network structure | Parameter quantity /MB | Time complexity/ms | PACC/% | F1-score/% |
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| Paper model | 12.82 | 241 | 94.16 | 94.12 |
| 3DCNN | 27.31 | 526 | 54.17 | 49.50 |
| 2DCNN | 3.50 | 190 | 31.67 | 24.91 |
Real-world Impact: Southern China Power Grid Reliability
Our improved 3DCNN model was rigorously tested and validated using real-world monitoring data from a major power grid in Southern China spanning 2016 to 2020. This dataset included 364 lightning-induced circuit breaker trips across 110kV, 220kV, and 500kV transmission lines, alongside 961 normal operation samples. The model's ability to learn from this diverse and often unbalanced data proved critical. By accurately predicting tripping events within a 5-minute window, the system provides grid operators with invaluable lead time to adjust operational modes, preventing outages, and significantly reducing the economic impact of lightning strikes. This deployment demonstrates the practical, tangible benefits of advanced AI in enhancing power grid resilience.
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