Fault Prediction of Hydropower Station Based on CNN-LSTM-GAN with Biased Data

Fault prediction of hydropower station is crucial for the stable operation of generator set equipment, but the traditional method struggles to deal with data with an imbalanced distribution and untrustworthiness. This paper proposes a fault detection method based on a convolutional neural network (CNNs) and long short-term memory network (LSTM) with a generative adversarial network (GAN). Firstly, a reliability mechanism based on principal component analysis (PCA) is designed to solve the problem of data bias caused by multiple monitoring devices. Then, the CNN-LSTM network is used to predict time series data, and the GAN is used to expand fault data samples to solve the problem of an unbalanced data distribution. Meanwhile, a multi-scale feature extraction network with time–frequency information is designed to improve the accuracy of fault detection. Finally, a dynamic multi-task training algorithm is proposed to ensure the convergence and training efficiency of the deep models. Experimental results show that compared with RNN, GRU, SVM, and threshold detection algorithms, the proposed fault prediction method improves the accuracy performance by 5.5 % , 4.8 % , 7.8 % , and 9.3 % , with at least a 160 % improvement in the fault recall rate.