Fault Diagnosis of Power Transformer Based on Adaptive Differential Evolution and Least Square Support Vector Machine

Abstract

Least square support vector machine (LS-SVM) can solve small sample, high-dimensional and non-linear multi-classification problem well, so it is applicable to the power transformer fault diagnosis. However, the parameters of LS-SVM have significant effect on the classification results.In this paper, the adaptive differential evolution algorithm (ADE) is applied to optimize the parameters of LS-SVM. The scaling factor and crossover rate are adjusted dynamically in the whole evolution process, so the robustness of the algorithm is improved greatly. The optimized LS-SVM is applied to fault diagnosis of power transformer, the results obtained demonstrate superiority of the proposed approach.