Design and Architecture for Anti-Hidden Faults Multiagent Protection System in Smart Grids

The sensitivity of modern day smart devices and the continuously evolving power system into smart grid has raised the level of requirements from protection systems to zero-tolerance for hidden faults. Researchers have continuously proposed various protection schemes to enhance the performance of pro...

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Main Authors: Tamer Eliyan, Saad F. Al-Gahtani, Z. M. S. Elbarbary, Fady Wadie
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Published: IEEE 2025-01-01
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description The sensitivity of modern day smart devices and the continuously evolving power system into smart grid has raised the level of requirements from protection systems to zero-tolerance for hidden faults. Researchers have continuously proposed various protection schemes to enhance the performance of protection systems. However, high resistance hidden faults could still pass undetected for most of the proposed schemes or could be detected but suffer from high requirements of phasor measurement units (PMUs) or low confidence in the scheme decision. In this paper, an Anti-hidden fault multiagent protection system (AHF-MPS) is proposed that detects hidden faults with minimal PMU requirements and high confidence level in the detection decision. The AHF-MPS employs PMUs as primary agents which detects the periodic change in the phase angle of positive sequence currents that arises due to fault incidents. The second step of AHF-MPS is to initiate an accelerating factor to overcurrent protection devices acting as secondary agents. The system was tested upon IEEE 34 testing system and the results showed successful detection of hidden faults with operating times ranging from 77 ms up to 432 ms depending on fault location. That proved its ability in detecting hidden faults with minimal requirements proving its superiority to its peers.
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spelling doaj-art-9bda6d9ff67f4b119da85d9b0e51298a2025-08-20T03:07:28ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362025-01-0113553325534410.1109/ACCESS.2025.355548710943215Design and Architecture for Anti-Hidden Faults Multiagent Protection System in Smart GridsTamer Eliyan0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8979-2299Saad F. Al-Gahtani1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7686-871XZ. M. S. Elbarbary2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1750-9244Fady Wadie3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9088-9952Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at Shoubra, Benha University, Cairo, EgyptDepartment of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi ArabiaMechatronics and Robotics Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Egyptian Russian University, Badr City, EgyptThe sensitivity of modern day smart devices and the continuously evolving power system into smart grid has raised the level of requirements from protection systems to zero-tolerance for hidden faults. Researchers have continuously proposed various protection schemes to enhance the performance of protection systems. However, high resistance hidden faults could still pass undetected for most of the proposed schemes or could be detected but suffer from high requirements of phasor measurement units (PMUs) or low confidence in the scheme decision. In this paper, an Anti-hidden fault multiagent protection system (AHF-MPS) is proposed that detects hidden faults with minimal PMU requirements and high confidence level in the detection decision. The AHF-MPS employs PMUs as primary agents which detects the periodic change in the phase angle of positive sequence currents that arises due to fault incidents. The second step of AHF-MPS is to initiate an accelerating factor to overcurrent protection devices acting as secondary agents. The system was tested upon IEEE 34 testing system and the results showed successful detection of hidden faults with operating times ranging from 77 ms up to 432 ms depending on fault location. That proved its ability in detecting hidden faults with minimal requirements proving its superiority to its peers.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10943215/Smart gridsprotection systemshidden faultsphasor measurement unit
spellingShingle Tamer Eliyan
Saad F. Al-Gahtani
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Fady Wadie
Design and Architecture for Anti-Hidden Faults Multiagent Protection System in Smart Grids
IEEE Access
Smart grids
protection systems
hidden faults
phasor measurement unit
title Design and Architecture for Anti-Hidden Faults Multiagent Protection System in Smart Grids
title_full Design and Architecture for Anti-Hidden Faults Multiagent Protection System in Smart Grids
title_fullStr Design and Architecture for Anti-Hidden Faults Multiagent Protection System in Smart Grids
title_full_unstemmed Design and Architecture for Anti-Hidden Faults Multiagent Protection System in Smart Grids
title_short Design and Architecture for Anti-Hidden Faults Multiagent Protection System in Smart Grids
title_sort design and architecture for anti hidden faults multiagent protection system in smart grids
topic Smart grids
protection systems
hidden faults
phasor measurement unit
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10943215/
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