This book highlights an intelligent framework for detecting and classifying partial discharge in solid insulation, a quiet but persistent threat to the reliability of high-voltage power systems. It presents the complete diagnostic pipeline, from capturing discharge signals with a custom, low-cost Rogowski coil sensor to characterising their phase-resolved patterns and distilling them into informative features through statistical analysis and principal component analysis. At its core lies a hybrid classifier that pairs a feedforward backpropagation neural network with a genetic algorithm, improving accuracy, efficiency, and generalisation beyond conventional methods. Bridging high-voltage insulation engineering and machine learning, the book explains specialist concepts in accessible terms while preserving technical rigour, offering researchers, graduate students, and practising engineers a practical route toward smarter insulation diagnostics.
Mohamad Kamarol Mohd Jamil
Artificial Neural Network Cable Insulation Classification Solid Insulation Defects PD Pulse Signals Pattern Recognition Phase-Resolved Partial Discharge (PRPD) Rogowski Coil Sensing