Connection Topology Optimization in Photovoltaic Arrays using Neural Networks

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivek Sivaraman Narayanaswamy ◽  
Raja Ayyanar ◽  
Andreas Spanias ◽  
Cihan Tepedelenlioglu ◽  
Devarajan Srinivasan
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Topology Optimization ◽  
Photovoltaic Arrays

scholarly journals An Efficient Neural Network-Based Method for Diagnosing Faults of PV Array

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6194
Author(s):  
Selma Tchoketch_Kebir ◽  
Nawal Cheggaga ◽  
Adrian Ilinca ◽  
Sabri Boulouma
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Modeling Process ◽  
Photovoltaic Arrays ◽  
Mode Of Operation ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Neural Networks ◽  
Operational Modes ◽  
Types Of Faults ◽  
Electrical Data

This paper presents an efficient neural network-based method for fault diagnosis in photovoltaic arrays. The proposed method was elaborated on three main steps: the data-feeding step, the fault-modeling step, and the decision step. The first step consists of feeding the real meteorological and electrical data to the neural networks, namely solar irradiance, panel temperature, photovoltaic-current, and photovoltaic-voltage. The second step consists of modeling a healthy mode of operation and five additional faulty operational modes; the modeling process is carried out using two networks of artificial neural networks. From this step, six classes are obtained, where each class corresponds to a predefined model, namely, the faultless scenario and five faulty scenarios. The third step involves the diagnosis decision about the system’s state. Based on the results from the above step, two probabilistic neural networks will classify each generated data according to the six classes. The obtained results show that the developed method can effectively detect different types of faults and classify them. Besides, this method still achieves high performances even in the presence of noises. It provides a diagnosis even in the presence of data injected at reduced real-time, which proves its robustness.

scholarly journals Methodology for automatic fault detection in photovoltaic arrays from artificial neural networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramón Fernando Colmenares-Quintero ◽  
Eyberth R. Rojas-Martinez ◽  
Fernando Macho-Hernantes ◽  
Kim E. Stansfield ◽  
Juan Carlos Colmenares-Quintero
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Artificial Neural Networks ◽  
Fault Detection ◽  
Photovoltaic Arrays ◽  
Artificial Neural

scholarly journals Stress Field Prediction in Cantilevered Structures Using Convolutional Neural Networks

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenguo Nie ◽  
Haoliang Jiang ◽  
Levent Burak Kara
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Topology Optimization ◽  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Stress Field ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Von Mises Stress ◽  
Channel Network ◽  
Promising Alternative ◽  
And Topology

Abstract The demand for fast and accurate structural analysis is becoming increasingly more prevalent with the advance of generative design and topology optimization technologies. As one step toward accelerating structural analysis, this work explores a deep learning-based approach for predicting the stress fields in 2D linear elastic cantilevered structures subjected to external static loads at its free end using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Two different architectures are implemented that take as input the structure geometry, external loads, and displacement boundary conditions, and output the predicted von Mises stress field. The first is a single input channel network called SCSNet as the baseline architecture, and the second is the multichannel input network called StressNet. Accuracy analysis shows that StressNet results in significantly lower prediction errors than SCSNet on three loss functions, with a mean relative error of 2.04% for testing. These results suggest that deep learning models may offer a promising alternative to classical methods in structural design and topology optimization. Code and dataset are available.2

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