Fault detection in electrical power systems using attention-GRU-based fault classifier (AGFC-Net)

Abstract Fault detection is essential in guaranteeing the reliability, security, and productivity of contemporary technological and industrial systems. Faults that go unnoticed may result in disastrous failures as well as prohibitive downtimes in industries as varied as healthcare, manufacturing, an...

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Main Authors: Deepen Khandelwal, Prateek Anand, Mayukh Ray, Sangeetha R. G.
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Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-07-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-06493-w
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description Abstract Fault detection is essential in guaranteeing the reliability, security, and productivity of contemporary technological and industrial systems. Faults that go unnoticed may result in disastrous failures as well as prohibitive downtimes in industries as varied as healthcare, manufacturing, and autonomous functioning. Conventional fault detection technologies tend to possess low accuracy rates, weak feature extraction, as well as limitations in generalizability across variegated faults. To overcome these shortcomings, this paper puts forward an Attention-GRU-Based Fault Classifier (AGFC-Net), which employs a sophisticated attention mechanism for improved feature extraction and correlation learning. Through the fusion of attention layers with Gated Recurrent Units (GRU), AGFC-Net is able to focus on key fault features, learn temporal dependencies, and provide better classification performance even under noisy conditions. Experimental results show that AGFC-Net attains a fault detection accuracy of 99.52%, better than conventional machine learning and deep learning algorithms. The suggested method presents a stronger, adaptive, and scalable solution for autonomous fault diagnosis, opening the door to intelligent and trustworthy fault detection systems in future power grids and industrial applications.
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spelling doaj-art-a22ca83e62884409b5941c13e14d14d22025-08-20T03:45:53ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222025-07-0115111410.1038/s41598-025-06493-wFault detection in electrical power systems using attention-GRU-based fault classifier (AGFC-Net)Deepen Khandelwal0Prateek Anand1Mayukh Ray2Sangeetha R. G.3School of Electronics Engineering, Vellore Institute of TechnologySchool of Electronics Engineering, Vellore Institute of TechnologySchool of Electronics Engineering, Vellore Institute of TechnologySchool of Electronics Engineering, Vellore Institute of TechnologyAbstract Fault detection is essential in guaranteeing the reliability, security, and productivity of contemporary technological and industrial systems. Faults that go unnoticed may result in disastrous failures as well as prohibitive downtimes in industries as varied as healthcare, manufacturing, and autonomous functioning. Conventional fault detection technologies tend to possess low accuracy rates, weak feature extraction, as well as limitations in generalizability across variegated faults. To overcome these shortcomings, this paper puts forward an Attention-GRU-Based Fault Classifier (AGFC-Net), which employs a sophisticated attention mechanism for improved feature extraction and correlation learning. Through the fusion of attention layers with Gated Recurrent Units (GRU), AGFC-Net is able to focus on key fault features, learn temporal dependencies, and provide better classification performance even under noisy conditions. Experimental results show that AGFC-Net attains a fault detection accuracy of 99.52%, better than conventional machine learning and deep learning algorithms. The suggested method presents a stronger, adaptive, and scalable solution for autonomous fault diagnosis, opening the door to intelligent and trustworthy fault detection systems in future power grids and industrial applications.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-06493-wElectrical CircuitAGFC-NetGRUAttention Mechanism
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AGFC-Net
GRU
Attention Mechanism
title Fault detection in electrical power systems using attention-GRU-based fault classifier (AGFC-Net)
title_full Fault detection in electrical power systems using attention-GRU-based fault classifier (AGFC-Net)
title_fullStr Fault detection in electrical power systems using attention-GRU-based fault classifier (AGFC-Net)
title_full_unstemmed Fault detection in electrical power systems using attention-GRU-based fault classifier (AGFC-Net)
title_short Fault detection in electrical power systems using attention-GRU-based fault classifier (AGFC-Net)
title_sort fault detection in electrical power systems using attention gru based fault classifier agfc net
topic Electrical Circuit
AGFC-Net
GRU
Attention Mechanism
url https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-06493-w
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