Reduced KPCA based Ensemble Learning Approach for Fault Diagnosis of Grid-Connected PV Systems.

The main objective of this work is to develop novel fault diagnosis techniques using ensemble learning and multivariate statistical techniques. The proposed methods are capable of identifying and classifying PV faults. First, an ensemble learning (EL) method that combines several base models is proposed. Next, kernel principal components analysis (KPCA) and reduced KPCA are proposed to extract and select the pertinent characteristics from raw data. Then, the extracted significant characteristics are transmitted to the EL model for classification purposes. The main idea behind these proposals is to provide the best accuracy and also improve the results in terms of computation time. The diagno-sis results demonstrated the efficiency of the proposed frameworks.