Inventors:
Steven A. Kunsman - Allentown PA, US
Ismail I. Jouny - Easton PA, US
Stephen Kaprielian - Worcester MA, US
International Classification:
G06F 19/00, H02H 3/42, G01R 31/08
US Classification:
700293, 700 22, 702 58, 361 79, 324525
Abstract:
An apparatus, system, and method for detecting high impedance faults in electrical power lines using a composite high impedance fault detection system having a voter logic that samples the logical outputs from a plurality of independent high impedance detection systems and determines a high impedance fault if any two of the plurality of independent high impedance detection systems indicates a high impedance fault. Preferably, the plurality of high impedance detection systems include a wavelet based high impedance fault detection system having a first logical output, a higher order statistics based high impedance fault detection system having a second logical output, and a neural net based high impedance fault detection system having a third logical output. Preferably, each of the plurality of high impedance fault detection systems includes an independent high impedance fault detection application that independently detects a high impedance fault on the electrical power line.