Fast voltage collapse evaluation via fuzzy decision tree method

Abstract

Voltage stability is considered to be a complex field of study since it has a number of contributing factors. Due to this, numerous studies or research has been made to look into various methods of analysis, detection and mitigation. In general, these methods would involve either complex computation for accurate results but suffers from high computation time. Some methods may also be simple and fast but then has the disadvantage of inaccuracy. This paper presents an alternative method of analysing the voltage stability problem by incorporating machine learning techniques, i.e. fuzzy decision tree method. The author proposed a general overview on how the algorithm is created. The algorithm is then tested using an IEEE 300 bus test system to test the algorithm's capability. Results presented show that the proposed FDT has a lot of future potential as an online tool for voltage stability analysis. © 2003 IEEE.