Uncertain Fault Diagnosis of Grid-Connected PV Systems based Improved Data-Driven Paradigms

The main idea behind this work is to diagnose Grid-Connected Photovoltaic (PV) systems. The uncertainty was treated by using the interval-valued data representation. The main interventions are threefold: first, interval ensemble techniques based on the combination of several models (SVM, KNN, and tree) into one improved model are proposed in order to isolate the different PV systems operating modes using interval raw data. Then, feature extraction and selection steps are proposed to improve the fault diagnosis results. Therefore, the interval KPCA (IKPCA) method is performed in order to extract and select the important characteristics. The proposed techniques were used to diagnose the GCPV system under different operating modes. The results demonstrated the superiority of the proposed methods.