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Should PV system fault detection methods be based on onsite fault detection?

Future research directions are recommended for both industry and academia to advance PV fault detection methods. PV systems are prone to external environmental conditions that affect PV system operations. Visual inspection of the impacts of faults on PV system is considered a better practice rather than onsite fault detection mechanisms.

How do PV systems detect faults?

PV systems are affected by environmental conditions, making visual inspection of faults easy. Electroluminescence (EL), infrared thermography (IRT), and photoluminescence (PL) technologies are used to visualize faults. DL algorithms have shown promising results in visual PV fault detection.

Can fault detection model predict a well-operating PV system as a faulty state?

Therefore, a normal fault detection model can falsely predict a well-operating PV system as a faulty state and vice versa. In this paper, an intelligent fault diagnosis model is proposed for the fault detection and classification in PV systems.

What is a fault detection model in a PV system?

The most important parameters in a PV system are current and voltage. A fault detection model only trained with these two input features can equally be robust as the other models trained with more input datasets. No single fault detection technique is capable of detecting, diagnosing, and locating all types of faults in the PV system.

Can reflectometry detect faults in PV systems?

Likewise, reflectometry methods have also been used for fault detection in PV systems. A time domain reflectometry (TDR) method was used to detect short circuit and insulation defects [12, 13], and recently, a spread spectrum TDR (SSTDR) method was investigated to detect ground faults and aging-related impedance variations in a PV system .

Do data-based fault detection models for PV systems give false predictions?

However, data-based fault detection models for PV systems can sometimes give false predictions, especially when the environmental parameters are not taken into consideration. This paper developed an intelligent fault detection model for PV arrays based on PNN for accurately classifying the fault types.