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Signal Processing and Robust Statistics for Fault Detection in Photovoltaic Arrays

abstract: Photovoltaics (PV) is an important and rapidly growing area of research. With the advent of power system monitoring and communication technology collectively known as the "smart grid," an opportunity exists to apply signal processing techniques to monitoring and control of PV arrays. In this paper a monitoring system which provides real-time measurements of each PV module's voltage and current is considered. A fault detection algorithm formulated as a clustering problem and addressed using the robust minimum covariance determinant (MCD) estimator is described; its performance on simulated instances of arc and ground faults is evaluated. The algorithm is found to perform well on many types of faults commonly occurring in PV arrays. Among several types of detection algorithms considered, only the MCD shows high performance on both types of faults. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.S. Electrical Engineering 2012

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:14796
Date January 2012
ContributorsBraun, Henry Carlton (Author), Tepedelenlioglu, Cihan (Advisor), Spanias, Andreas (Advisor), Turaga, Pavan (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher)
Source SetsArizona State University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeMasters Thesis
Format73 pages
Rightshttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved

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