BiPLS-RF: A hybrid wavelength selection strategy for laser induced fluorescence spectroscopy of power transformer oil

Abstract

In this paper, a method for indirect diagnosis of transformer faults based on the fluorescence spectrum and characteristic wavelength screening of transformer oil has been proposed. Specifically, a hybrid strategy (BiPLS-RF) for establishing the fluorescence spectrum feature screening of transformer oil using backward interval partial least squares (BiPLS) and random forest (RF) has been proposed. Aiming at the problem of transformer fault diagnosis, the laser induced fluorescence (LIF) spectroscopy of transformer oil in different states was first collected, and it is found that the fluorescence spectrum intensity of normal transformer oil was stronger than that of faulty transformer oil. Then the characteristic bands of the original fluorescence spectra were screened by BiPLS. It is found that when the original fluorescence spectra were divided into 15 sub-intervals, the minimum root mean squares error of cross-validation can be obtained by selecting 3 sub-intervals (including 411 wavelengths). On this basis, RF was employed to further screen the characteristic wavelengths and realized the identification of the fluorescence spectrum. It is found that in the RF model composed of 54 trees, the selected 196 characteristic wavelengths of the fluorescence spectrum can minimize the analysis error (0.56%). In addition, the selected characteristic wavelength information was fed into other common classifiers to construct a fluorescence spectrum identification model, which further proved the effectiveness of BiPLS-RF for wavelength selection for LIF spectroscopy of power transformer oil. The results show that it is feasible to use BiPLS-RF to screen the characteristic wavelength of LIF spectroscopy and apply it to transformer fault diagnosis, which provides a new solution for transformer fault diagnosis.