A Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Wavelet Singular Entropy and SVM for VSC-HVDC Converter

The converter is the core component of voltage source converter-high voltage direct current(VSC-HVDC),which is related to the stable operation of the system.The converter has a complex structure where the accuracy of feature extraction is low,and the computation speed of traditional fault diagnosis strategies is slow.To solve this problem,a fault diagnosis strategy based on wavelet singular entropy(WSE)and support vector machine(SVM)was proposed.This method includes fault and label setting,converter fault feature extraction based on wavelet singular entropy,and converter fault classification based on support vector machine.The DC-side voltage signal was used as the detection signal,and the wavelet singular entropy was used for feature extraction to avoid noise interference.The classification is based on SVM.The experimental verification in PSCAD simulation proved that the method has better fault diagnosis ability for various faults and meets the needs of converter fault diagnosis.