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Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0009-0003-0762-7455

Date Available

7-20-2025

Year of Publication

2025

Document Type

Master's Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE)

College

Engineering

Department/School/Program

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Faculty

Yuan Liao

Faculty

Caicheng Lu

Abstract

This thesis proposes a multi-task fault diagnosis framework for distribution systems based on Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) and an enhanced Graph Attention Network (GATv2). By representing the power grid as a graph with electrical features and topological connections, the model simultaneously performs fault type classification and fault location prediction. The architecture incorporates residual connections, multi-head attention, and a Jumping Knowledge module to capture multi-scale structural patterns, while dynamic loss weighting ensures balanced task optimization under noise and sparsity. Experimental results on the IEEE 123-node test feeder demonstrate a fault classification accuracy of 96.43%, and fault localization accuracies of 84.64% (strict), 96.83% (1-hop), and 98.49% (2-hop). The model exhibits strong robustness and offers a potential solution for intelligent fault diagnosis in real-world power systems.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.13023/etd.2025.266

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