Open AccessLightning Location and Peak Current Estimation From Lightning-Induced Voltages on Transmission Lines With a Machine Learning ApproachOpen Access
Author(s)
Martino Nicora,
Mauro Tucci,
Sami Barmada,
Massimo Brig,
Renato Procopio
Publication year2024
Publication title
ieee transactions on electromagnetic compatibility
Resource typeMagazines
PublisherIEEE
In this article, a machine-learning-based model for the regression of cloud-to-ground lightning location and peak current from time-domain waveforms of lightning-induced voltage measurements on overhead transmission lines is presented. A principal component analysis (PCA) procedure is applied for extracting significant features and decreasing the dimension of the input vector. Then, a shallow neural network is trained with the results of the PCA. The obtained results show that the proposed approach can be the base for a tool able to regress lighting location with an accuracy comparable to or even better than traditional methods [i.e., lightning location system (LLS)] and provide a peak current estimate more accurate than LLS and more actual and widespread than direct tower measurements (which are limited to a reduced number of recorded events in some specific regions). Such a tool would also have significant advantages in terms of costs, since it would not require a dedicated instrumentation.
Subject(s)engineered materials, dielectrics and plasmas , fields, waves and electromagnetics
Keyword(s)Lightning, Voltage measurement, Current measurement, Transmission line measurements, Sensors, Mathematical models, Databases, Lightning-induced effects, lightning location, machine learning (ML), neural networks (NNs), transients on transmission lines
Language(s)English
SCImago Journal Rank0.655
H-Index91
eISSN1558-187X
pISSN0018-9375
DOI10.1109/temc.2024.3375452
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