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Fault Diagnosis for PV Modules Based on AlexNet and Symmetrized Dot Pattern

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  • Meng-Hui Wang

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Taichung 411, Taiwan)

  • Chun-Chun Hung

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan)

  • Shiue-Der Lu

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Taichung 411, Taiwan)

  • Zong-Han Lin

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Taichung 411, Taiwan)

  • Cheng-Chien Kuo

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan)

Abstract

Faults in solar photovoltaic (PV) modules often result from component damage, leading to voltage fluctuations and decreased stability in the power system. In this study, the original voltage signals of different PV modules show little variation. Therefore, a solution that combines symmetrized dot pattern (SDP) and AlexNet for fault detection in PV modules was proposed. This solution investigates three common faults: poor welding, cracking, and bypass diode failure, which can be applied to fault-free modules. First, a high-frequency signal was input into the PV module, and the raw signal was captured using an NI PXI-5105 high-speed data acquisition card. Next, we used SDP to process the signal and create images with specific snowflake-like features. These images were used as a basis for fault diagnosis. Finally, deep-learning algorithms were used to perform status detection on the PV module. This research also used 3200 training samples and 800 test samples (200 for each type) to evaluate a new method for diagnosing faults in PV modules. The results show that the accuracy of the new method reached 99.8%, surpassing traditional convolutional neural networks (CNN) and extension neural networks (ENN), whose accuracies were 99.5% and 91.75%, respectively. Furthermore, this study compares the proposed method with more traditional numerical fault diagnosis methods. SDP effectively extracts fault signals and presents them as images. With AlexNet used for fault identification, the method excels in accuracy, training time, and testing time, thereby enhancing the stability and reliability of future energy systems.

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  • Meng-Hui Wang & Chun-Chun Hung & Shiue-Der Lu & Zong-Han Lin & Cheng-Chien Kuo, 2023. "Fault Diagnosis for PV Modules Based on AlexNet and Symmetrized Dot Pattern," Energies, MDPI, vol. 16(22), pages 1-15, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:16:y:2023:i:22:p:7563-:d:1279503
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