AI automates substation control

An overview is given on the possibility of controlling the status of circuit breakers (CB) in a substations with the use of a knowledge base that relates some of the operation magnitudes, mixing status variables with time variables and fuzzy sets. It is shown that even when all the magnitudes to be controlled cannot be included in the analysis, it is possible to control the desired status while supervising some important magnitudes as the voltage, power factor, and harmonic distortion, as well as the present status.

Keywords

Artificial intelligence, Automation, Electric power factor correction, Electric power factor measurement, Electric substations, Fuzzy control, Harmonic analysis, Human computer interaction, Knowledge based systems, Response time (computer systems), Voltage control, Automatic rule extraction, Data acquisition card, Inference module, Substation control, Computer control systems