ADGWN: adaptive dual-channel graph wavelet neural network for topology identification of low-voltage distribution grid

Abstract

Maintaining accurate topology of the low-voltage distribution grid (LVDG) are critical to the operations and maintenance of power distribution systems. However, this goal is hard to achieve due to the fast-changing LVDG topology. To this end, we focus on the abnormal customer-transformer relationships identification in the LVDG and propose an identification method based on an Adaptive Dual-channel Graph Wavelet Neural Network (ADGWN) consisting of two identical GWNs connected with the attention mechanism. In the proposed ADGWN, two GWNs learn customer embedding simultaneously from the LVDG topology graph and the feature graph that is constructed from customer electricity consumption data with the k-Nearest Neighbor algorithm. The topology identification results of these two GNNs are then adaptively fused to form the ultimate identification result with the attention mechanism by dynamically balancing the aforementioned two types of information. To validate the performance of our proposed method, we further build a real benchmarking dataset from customer electricity consumption data collected from a certain substation in Shanghai, China. Experimental results show that the proposed ADGWN achieves 100.0% LVDG topology identification accuracy and significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art. Our proposed method can help operators of power distribution systems maintain the accurate topology in a timely and economic manner.