Towards Multi-Scenario Power System Stability Analysis: An Unsupervised Transfer Learning Method Combining DGAT and Data Augmentation

Abstract

With the expansion of power system simulation scale, intelligent stability analysis based on simulation data becomes more and more important. However, the changeable operating conditions and fault conditions will seriously affect the performance of the intelligent analysis model. This paper proposes an advanced unsupervised transfer learning (UTL) method combining dynamic graph attention network (DGAT) and data augmentation to identify the instability mode towards multiple known and unknown scenarios. For the pre-training stage, the DGAT model with data augmentation is used for instability mode identification based on the basic dataset. For the transfer learning stage, it starts when faced with new operating conditions or fault conditions different from the basic dataset. The UTL scheme takes the distribution differences among different categories of source domain and target domain as the loss to fine-tune the pre-trained model. Moreover, considering the difficulty of sample-labeling, the UTL scheme can make the pre-trained model adapt to them without additional labeled samples. Case studies are conducted on 8-machine 36-bus system and Northeast China Power Grid. The results verify the superiority of the DGAT model with data augmentation and confirm the UTL scheme can help the model adapt to multiple unknown scenarios.