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Application of Single Channel Blind Source Separation Based-EEMD- PCA and Improved FastICA algorithm on Non-intrusive Appliances Load identification

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Abstract

The deployment of NILM systems and others embedded systems in the residential sector provides a large amount of data to better understand the electricity consumption habits of occupants in order to provide energy optimization solutions. The Fast Fixed-Point Algorithm for Independent Component Analysis (FastICA) can be used in the identification of loads through the separation of aggregated current and voltage waveforms from devices in the operating conditions that ensure the time and/or frequency independence between the sources. However, in addition to being less suitable for under-determined systems, the FastICA algorithm is sensitive to the initial weight vector, which affects the convergence of the algorithm. In order to solve this problem, a combination of Signal processing methods has been proposed to extract individual current curves representing load profiles from the single channel observation. First, the current mixed signal was decomposed using the EEMD algorithm to obtain IMFs for use in the BSS. As the number of IMFs is very large, the PCA algorithm was used to reduce the number of IMFs from n to r. Selected principal components were whitened and an over-relaxation factor was incorporated into the iterative Newton algorithm to process the randomly generated initial weight vector. The improved FastICA algorithm was used to separate the source components, selected the best current source from the mixed observation. Finally, the individual current analyzes and compares to the original signal. The advantage of this approach lies in the fact that it applies perfectly to NILM applications where very often only one observation is available, which is the aggregated signal. Moreover, it reveals the importance of the data sampling frequency for an accurate characterization of the load profile.

Published in Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Volume 10, Issue 3)
DOI 10.11648/j.jeee.20221003.16
Page(s) 114-120
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Keywords

Desegregation, RobustICA, Non-intrusive Load Monitoring, Smart Grid, Bling Source Separation, FastICA, EEMD, PCA

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  • Department of Electrical Engineering, Douala Advanced Vocational Center of Technology, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon

  • Philippe RAVIER, Orleans Polytechnics School, PRISME Laboratory, University of Orleans, Orleans, France

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