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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Front. Energy Res.</journal-id>
<journal-title>Frontiers in Energy Research</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">Front. Energy Res.</abbrev-journal-title>
<issn pub-type="epub">2296-598X</issn>
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<article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">745744</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3389/fenrg.2021.745744</article-id>
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<subject>Energy Research</subject>
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<subject>Original Research</subject>
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<article-title>Improved Genetic Algorithm and XGBoost Classifier for Power Transformer Fault Diagnosis</article-title>
<alt-title alt-title-type="left-running-head">Wu et&#x20;al.</alt-title>
<alt-title alt-title-type="right-running-head">Power Transformer Fault Diagnosis</alt-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
<name>
<surname>Wu</surname>
<given-names>Zhanhong</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="corresp" rid="c001">&#x2a;</xref>
<uri xlink:href="https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/1410415/overview"/>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Zhou</surname>
<given-names>Mingbiao</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Lin</surname>
<given-names>Zhenheng</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Chen</surname>
<given-names>Xuejun</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Huang</surname>
<given-names>Yonghua</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
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<aff id="aff1">
<label>
<sup>1</sup>
</label>Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Mechatronics and Information Engineering, Putian University, <addr-line>Putian</addr-line>, <country>China</country>
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<aff id="aff2">
<label>
<sup>2</sup>
</label>State Grid Sanming Electric Power Supply Company, <addr-line>Sanming</addr-line>, <country>China</country>
</aff>
<author-notes>
<fn fn-type="edited-by">
<p>
<bold>Edited by:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/1140513/overview">Lei Xi</ext-link>, China Three Gorges University, China</p>
</fn>
<fn fn-type="edited-by">
<p>
<bold>Reviewed by:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/835627/overview">Narottam Das</ext-link>, Central Queensland University, Australia</p>
<p>
<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/1222566/overview">Xiaoshun Zhang</ext-link>, Shantou University, China</p>
</fn>
<corresp id="c001">&#x2a;Correspondence: Zhanhong Wu, <email>zhanhong.wu@outlook.com</email>
</corresp>
<fn fn-type="other">
<p>This article was submitted to Smart Grids, a section of the journal Frontiers in Energy Research</p>
</fn>
</author-notes>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>08</day>
<month>10</month>
<year>2021</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="collection">
<year>2021</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>9</volume>
<elocation-id>745744</elocation-id>
<history>
<date date-type="received">
<day>22</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2021</year>
</date>
<date date-type="accepted">
<day>21</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2021</year>
</date>
</history>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright &#xa9; 2021 Wu, Zhou, Lin, Chen and Huang.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2021</copyright-year>
<copyright-holder>Wu, Zhou, Lin, Chen and Huang</copyright-holder>
<license xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
<p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these&#x20;terms.</p>
</license>
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<abstract>
<p>Power transformer is an essential component for the stable and reliable operation of electrical power grid. The traditional transformer fault diagnostic methods based on dissolved gas analysis are limited due to the low accuracy of fault identification. In this study, an effective transformer fault diagnosis system is proposed to improve identification accuracy. The proposed approach combines an improved genetic algorithm (IGA) with the XGBoost to form a hybrid diagnosis network. The combination of the improved genetic algorithm and the XGBoost (IGA-XGBoost) forms the basic unit of the proposed method, which decomposes and reconstructs the transformer fault recognition problem into several minor problems IGA-XGBoosts can solve. The results of simulation experiments show that the IGA performs excellently in the combined optimization of input feature selection and the XGBoost parameter, and the proposed method can accurately identify the transformer fault types with an average accuracy of 99.2%. Compared to IEC ratios, dual triangle, support vector machine and common vector approach the diagnostic accuracy of the proposed method is improved by 30.2, 47.2, 11.2, and 3.6%, respectively. The proposed method can be a potential solution to identify the transformer fault&#x20;types.</p>
</abstract>
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<kwd>transformer fault diagnosis</kwd>
<kwd>genetic algorithm</kwd>
<kwd>XGBoost</kwd>
<kwd>dissolved gas analysis</kwd>
<kwd>performance measures</kwd>
</kwd-group>
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<sec id="s1">
<title>1 Introduction</title>
<p>Power transformers are one of the most expensive, complex, and momentous equipment in electrical power systems. The faults of any power transformer online could cause considerable damage to the power system and lead to the interruption of the power supply. Therefore, the early detection of faults in transformers is vital to improving the reliability of the power system. Suffered the electrical and thermal stress during the operation, the transformer oil and organic insulating inside the transformer will be decomposed and generate different gases. Commonly, these dissolved gases include hydrogen (<italic>H</italic>
<sub>2</sub>), methane (<italic>CH</italic>
<sub>4</sub>), acetylene (<italic>C</italic>
<sub>2</sub>
<italic>H</italic>
<sub>2</sub>), ethylene (<italic>C</italic>
<sub>2</sub>
<italic>H</italic>
<sub>4</sub>), ethane (<italic>C</italic>
<sub>2</sub>
<italic>H</italic>
<sub>6</sub>) and can provide abundant information about the internal states of the transformer. Based on the gas chromatography methods, the composition of the dissolved gases can be qualitatively and quantitatively measured and then used for the identification of the latent fault. There are three main kinds of chromatographic analysis method (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">Cheng and Yu, 2018</xref>) of dissolved gases namely the characteristic gas method (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B14">Fu et&#x20;al., 2012</xref>), the gas production rate method (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B28">Nogami et&#x20;al., 1995</xref>; Xi <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">Chen et&#x20;al., 2010</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B45">Zeng et&#x20;al., 2011</xref>), and the three-ratio method (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B16">Jiang et&#x20;al., 2014</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B9">Dhote and Helonde, 2012</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B22">Liu et&#x20;al., 2020</xref>). The above methods generally utilize the concentration of a specific gaseous molecule or the ratios of several different molecules indicate the state of a power transformer (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B30">Shang et&#x20;al., 2019</xref>). In addition, several improved methods have been proposed and applied for transformer fault diagnosis, including the Roger method (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B15">Ghoneim et&#x20;al., 2016</xref>), the basic triangular diagram (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B31">Singh and Bandyopadhyay, 2010</xref>), the dual triangle method (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B30">Shang et&#x20;al., 2019</xref>), etc. However, these methods have their inherent shortcomings. For example, most of these traditional diagnosis&#x20;methods only make a limited contribution to a transformer&#x2019;s fault diagnosis due to low diagnostic accuracy (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B39">Yadaiah and Ravi, 2011</xref>). Meanwhile, the three-ratio and improved three-ratio methods have disadvantages of incomplete coding and excessively absolute coding boundary (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">Cheng and Yu, 2018</xref>). Therefore, due to these defects of traditional methods, it is necessary to investigate new transformer fault diagnosis methods.</p>
<p>With the rapid development of computer science and artificial intelligence algorithms, many models are conducted by combining intelligence techniques with DGA methods to accurately detect fault types. The utilization of artificial neural network (ANN) (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B7">Colorado et&#x20;al., 2011</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">Bhalla et&#x20;al., 2012</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B41">Yi et&#x20;al., 2016</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B17">Meng et&#x20;al., 2010</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">Castro and Miranda, 2005</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B24">Miranda and Castro, 2005</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B32">Souahlia et&#x20;al., 2012</xref>), expert system (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B20">Lin et&#x20;al., 1993</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B35">Wang et&#x20;al., 2000</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B29">Saha and Purkait, 2004</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B23">Mani and Jerome, 2014</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B19">Li et&#x20;al., 2009</xref>), fuzzy theory (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B40">Huang et&#x20;al., 1997</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B25">Mofizul Islam et&#x20;al., 2000</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B38">Zhou et&#x20;al., 1997</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B11">Fan et&#x20;al., 2017</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B26">Naresh et&#x20;al., 2008</xref>), grey system (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B10">Dong et&#x20;al., 2003</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">Cheng et&#x20;al., 2018</xref>), support vector machine (SVM) (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B13">Fei and Zhang, 2009</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B12">Fei et&#x20;al., 2009</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B21">Liu et&#x20;al., 2016</xref>; Niu <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B27">Wu et&#x20;al., 2010</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B42">Yin et&#x20;al., 2011</xref>) and other theories have significantly improved the accuracy of fault identification. However, deficiencies occur together with these intelligent diagnostic approaches. Based on the ANN method, the intelligent fault diagnostic method is susceptible to be overfitting and may get a local optimum (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B43">Yuan et&#x20;al., 2019</xref>). As for the expert system, the accuracy of this diagnostic method depends on the completeness of the expert knowledge, and this method cannot learn from new data samples automatically (Weigen <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B36">Chen et&#x20;al., 2009</xref>). In addition, fuzzy theory depends exceedingly on the experience of the researcher and is difficult to acquire an appropriate relationship between the input and output variables (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B44">&#x17d;arkovi&#x107; and Stojkovi&#x107;, 2017</xref>). SVM is originally a binary classification algorithm which makes it difficult to determine the parameters for multi-classification problem (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B48">Zhu et&#x20;al., 2018</xref>). A single intelligent approach for transformer fault diagnosis has various shortcomings and can not reflect all the operation status of the transformer. Various intelligent algorithms can be combined to form a hybrid network for mutual complementation to solve complex problems, which has been applied in electricity. Researchers in (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B37">Xi et&#x20;al., 2020</xref>) proposed a deep-reinforcement-learning-based three-network double-delay actor-critic (TDAC) control strategy for the automatic generation control (AGC) to deal with the strong random disturbance issues caused by renewable energy. Researchers in (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B47">Zhang et&#x20;al., 2020</xref>) proposed a predictive control (MPC) based model combined with real-time optimal mileage based dispatch (OMD) for generating company responding to AGC dispatch signals in real-time. The above hybrid networks perform excellently in dealing with complex problems. As for the transformer fault diagnosis, a diagnostic method can be conducted with a hybrid network that combines different algorithms.</p>
<p>To achieve the objective of improving the accuracy of transformer fault diagnosis, a machine learning algorithm named XGBoost was employed as the classifier for the transformer fault identification in this paper, which is a scalable end-to-end tree boosting system (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">Chen and Guestrin, 2016</xref>). An improved genetic algorithm (IGA) is used for input feature selection and the XGBoost&#x2019;s optimization. Then an intelligent diagnostic method based on the combination of the IGA and the XGBoost classifier (IGA-XGBoost) is built. The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. <xref ref-type="sec" rid="s2">Section 2</xref> presents the details of the proposed method, and <xref ref-type="sec" rid="s3">section 3</xref> shows the experimental results and performance analysis. <xref ref-type="sec" rid="s4">Section 4</xref> is the conclusion of this&#x20;paper.</p>
</sec>
<sec id="s2">
<title>2 Proposed Methods</title>
<p>In this section, the proposed method for power transformer faults detection and recognition is explained in detail. Different methods based on the artificial intelligence algorithms and DGA methods have been proposed to classify transformer faults, and the most significant issue which impacts the accuracy of fault classification is the appropriate selection of input features and classifiers (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B34">Tightiz et&#x20;al., 2020</xref>). Consideration has been given to these two aspects in the proposed method.</p>
<sec id="s2-1">
<title>2.1 Candidate Input Features</title>
<p>Intelligent transformer faults diagnosis methods proposed by other researchers commonly combine DGA methods with artificial intelligence algorithms in the last decades. The gas ratios or gas concentrations used in DGA methods are adopted as the inputs of these intelligent fault diagnosis methods. Nonetheless, not all the gas ratios or gas concentrations have the same significance for fault identification. Using uninformative features as inputs leads to artificial noise and poor performance in transformer faults diagnosis. Hence, effective features should be selected as the input, and uninformative features must be removed. In this study, following the traditional DGA methods, the concentrations of the dissolved gases or the ratios of several different gases are collected as candidate feature set for the input feature selection, as shown in <xref ref-type="table" rid="T1">Table&#x20;1</xref>. In <xref ref-type="table" rid="T1">Table&#x20;1</xref>, <italic>TH</italic> &#x3d; <italic>CH</italic>
<sub>4</sub> &#x2b; <italic>C</italic>
<sub>2</sub>
<italic>H</italic>
<sub>4</sub> &#x2b; <italic>C</italic>
<sub>2</sub>
<italic>H</italic>
<sub>2</sub> and <italic>TH</italic>1 &#x3d; <italic>CH</italic>
<sub>4</sub> &#x2b; <italic>C</italic>
<sub>2</sub>
<italic>H</italic>
<sub>4</sub> &#x2b; <italic>C</italic>
<sub>2</sub>
<italic>H</italic>
<sub>2</sub>&#x20;&#x2b;&#x20;<italic>C</italic>
<sub>2</sub>
<italic>H</italic>
<sub>6</sub>.</p>
<table-wrap id="T1" position="float">
<label>TABLE 1</label>
<caption>
<p>The candidate feature set for intelligent fault diagnosis methods. Gas concentrations (ppm) and ratio of gas concentrations in the&#x20;table.</p>
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<thead valign="top">
<tr>
<th colspan="6" align="center">Feature set</th>
</tr>
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<tr>
<td align="left">
<italic>H</italic>
<sub>2</sub>
</td>
<td align="left">
<italic>CH</italic>
<sub>4</sub>
</td>
<td align="left">
<italic>C</italic>
<sub>2</sub>
<italic>H</italic>
<sub>6</sub>
</td>
<td align="left">
<italic>C</italic>
<sub>2</sub>
<italic>H</italic>
<sub>4</sub>
</td>
<td align="left">
<italic>C</italic>
<sub>2</sub>
<italic>H</italic>
<sub>2</sub>
</td>
<td align="left">
<italic>CH</italic>
<sub>4</sub>/<italic>H</italic>
<sub>2</sub>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">
<italic>C</italic>
<sub>2</sub>
<italic>H</italic>
<sub>4</sub>/<italic>C</italic>
<sub>2</sub>
<italic>H</italic>
<sub>6</sub>
</td>
<td align="left">
<italic>C</italic>
<sub>2</sub>
<italic>H</italic>
<sub>2</sub>/<italic>C</italic>
<sub>2</sub>
<italic>H</italic>
<sub>4</sub>
</td>
<td align="left">
<italic>C</italic>
<sub>2</sub>
<italic>H</italic>
<sub>2</sub>/<italic>C</italic>
<sub>2</sub>
<italic>H</italic>
<sub>6</sub>
</td>
<td align="left">
<italic>TH</italic>
</td>
<td align="left">
<italic>CH</italic>
<sub>4</sub>/<italic>TH</italic>
</td>
<td align="left">
<italic>C</italic>
<sub>2</sub>
<italic>H</italic>
<sub>4</sub>/<italic>TH</italic>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">
<italic>C</italic>
<sub>2</sub>
<italic>H</italic>
<sub>2</sub>/<italic>TH</italic>
</td>
<td align="left">
<italic>TH</italic>1</td>
<td align="left">
<italic>CH</italic>
<sub>4</sub>/<italic>TH</italic>1</td>
<td align="left">
<italic>C</italic>
<sub>2</sub>
<italic>H</italic>
<sub>6</sub>/<italic>TH</italic>1</td>
<td align="left">
<italic>C</italic>
<sub>2</sub>
<italic>H</italic>
<sub>4</sub>/<italic>TH</italic>1</td>
<td align="left">
<italic>C</italic>
<sub>2</sub>
<italic>H</italic>
<sub>2</sub>/<italic>TH</italic>1</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</table-wrap>
</sec>
<sec id="s2-2">
<title>2.2 Genetic Algorithm</title>
<sec id="s2-2-1">
<title>2.2.1 Tradtional Genetic Algorithm and Improved Genetic Algorithm</title>
<p>It is common practice to separate the process of input feature selection from the classifier optimization process, which neglects interaction between the feature selection and the classifier optimization may lead to unreliable results (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B8">Daelemans et&#x20;al., 2003</xref>). Combined optimization of the feature selection and the classifier&#x2019; parameters can be achieved by genetic algorithm within a single approach. Since the traditional genetic algorithm (TGA) is prone to get trapped in the local optimal and fails to find the optimal global solution. In this paper, some improvements have been made to the TGA to enhance its global search capability, and an IGA is obtained. The IGA is utilized to combine the feature selection process with the classifier optimization process and assess which combination of input features and classifier&#x2019;s parameters substantially impact the accuracy of fault diagnosis to gain the optimal input features and the classifier&#x2019;s parameters. The difference between the TGA and the IGA is shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">Figure&#x20;1</xref>. <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">Figure&#x20;1A</xref> shows the structure of the TGA, and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">Figure&#x20;1B</xref> shows the structure of the IGA. From 1A, it can be found that the main processes of the TGA include the population selection process and the population reproduction process. Two modifications make the IGA differ from the TGA: the high mutation rate of 0.3, and the other is the addition of elitist selection in the population selection process.</p>
<fig id="F1" position="float">
<label>FIGURE 1</label>
<caption>
<p>The structures of the TGA and the IGA, <bold>(A)</bold> is TGA&#x2019;s structure, <bold>(B)</bold> is IGA&#x2019;s structure. The IGA differs from GA with two modifications: the high mutation rate of 0.3, and the other is the addition of elitist selection in the population selection process.</p>
</caption>
<graphic xlink:href="fenrg-09-745744-g001.tif"/>
</fig>
<p>In the population selection process of the TGA, the generation of candidate solutions after initialization is called the population. Each individual of the generated population has its chromosome coding to represent the parameters of the classifier and the input features extracted from DGA data, as shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F2">Figure&#x20;2</xref>. Each chromosome coding contains n bit strings, of which L1 to Ln-1 represent the classifier&#x2019;s parameters, and the Ln bit string is used for the input feature selection. For feature selection, the bit with the value &#x201c;1&#x201d; in the Ln bit string represents the corresponding DGA feature is selected, and &#x201c;0&#x201d; means no selection. For the parameters setting of the classifier, the bit strings of parameters would be converted from the binary value to decimal value with a specific range by <xref ref-type="disp-formula" rid="e1">Eq. 1</xref>.<disp-formula id="e1">
<mml:math id="m1">
<mml:mi>p</mml:mi>
<mml:mo>&#x3d;</mml:mo>
<mml:mi>m</mml:mi>
<mml:mi>i</mml:mi>
<mml:msub>
<mml:mrow>
<mml:mi>n</mml:mi>
</mml:mrow>
<mml:mrow>
<mml:mi>p</mml:mi>
</mml:mrow>
</mml:msub>
<mml:mo>&#x2b;</mml:mo>
<mml:mfrac>
<mml:mrow>
<mml:mi>m</mml:mi>
<mml:mi>a</mml:mi>
<mml:msub>
<mml:mrow>
<mml:mi>x</mml:mi>
</mml:mrow>
<mml:mrow>
<mml:mi>p</mml:mi>
</mml:mrow>
</mml:msub>
<mml:mo>&#x2212;</mml:mo>
<mml:mi>m</mml:mi>
<mml:mi>i</mml:mi>
<mml:msub>
<mml:mrow>
<mml:mi>n</mml:mi>
</mml:mrow>
<mml:mrow>
<mml:mi>p</mml:mi>
</mml:mrow>
</mml:msub>
</mml:mrow>
<mml:mrow>
<mml:msup>
<mml:mrow>
<mml:mn>2</mml:mn>
</mml:mrow>
<mml:mrow>
<mml:mi>l</mml:mi>
</mml:mrow>
</mml:msup>
<mml:mo>&#x2212;</mml:mo>
<mml:mn>1</mml:mn>
</mml:mrow>
</mml:mfrac>
<mml:mo>&#xd7;</mml:mo>
<mml:mi>d</mml:mi>
</mml:math>
<label>(1)</label>
</disp-formula>Here <italic>p</italic> represents chromosome coding of parameter, min<sub>
<italic>p</italic>
</sub> represents minimum value of the parameter, max<sub>
<italic>p</italic>
</sub> represents maximum value of the parameter, <italic>d</italic> represents decimal value of bit string, and <italic>l</italic> represents length of bit string.</p>
<fig id="F2" position="float">
<label>FIGURE 2</label>
<caption>
<p>Structure of chromosome coding. Chromosome coding contains n bit strings, of which L1 to Ln-1 represent the classifier&#x2019;s parameters, and the Ln bit string represents the DGA data used for the input feature.</p>
</caption>
<graphic xlink:href="fenrg-09-745744-g002.tif"/>
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<p>The individuals of the population will then be selected for propagation by weighing their fitness values. The fitness values measure the population&#x2019;s performance. The fitness function described in <xref ref-type="disp-formula" rid="e2">Eq. 2</xref> uses the average accuracy of cross-validation for evaluation, and the higher the fitness value represents a better individual.<disp-formula id="e2">
<mml:math id="m2">
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<p>In the roulette wheel selection method, the greater the individual&#x2019;s fitness is, the higher the possibility of such an individual would survive, but the optimal individual of each iteration still has a certain probability of being eliminated. Also, the process of crossover and mutation may lead to the disappearance of the optimal individual. Compared with TGA, the optimal individual of each iteration is added directly into the new generation in the IGA to avoid the disappearance of each iteration&#x2019;s optimal individual as shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">Figure&#x20;1B</xref>, which is called elitist selection. Besides, the mutation rate is set at 0.3 instead of the conventional low value to make the IGA jump out of the local optimum. These two modifications can effectively improve the global search capability of the IGA and the accuracy of transformer fault identification, as will be discussed in the Simulation Result.</p>
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<title>2.3 Transformer Fault Diagnosis System</title>
<p>The XGBoost is a scalable tree boosting system that has been successfully applied in world-class machine learning and data mining competition because it is robust enough to avoid overfitting (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B46">Zhang and Zhan, 2017</xref>). In addition, the XGBoost algorithm can take advantage of the original data directly without normalization. Thus, the XGBoost is utilized as the classifier of the transformer fault diagnosis system in this study. The DGA data is not fed directly into the classifier in the proposed method. Since 18 features are collected from DGA methods, as shown in <xref ref-type="table" rid="T1">Table&#x20;1</xref>, the application of complete input data is too time-consuming and could lower the accuracy of faults classification due to the artificial noise. <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F3">Figure&#x20;3</xref> shows the structure of the IGA-XGBoost. The IGA selects the input features fed to the XGBoost to decrease the input volume from 18 to a smaller number in the IGA-XGBoost. In addition, at the same time as input feature selection, the parameters of the XGBoost are decided by the IGA. The parameters of the XGBoost being decided by the IGA include eta, max_depth, min_child_weight, n_estimators, and n_gamma. The transformer fault diagnosis system described in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F4">Figure&#x20;4</xref> is developed based on the IGA-XGBoost. Transformer states are classified into six categories, which contain normal (N), partial discharge (PD), high-energy discharge (D1), low-energy discharge (D2), low and middle-temperature overheat (T1&#x26;T2), and high-temperature overheating (T3). The fault recognition problem is decomposed and reconstructed into several more minor problems that can be solved one by one. Four IGA-XGBoost classifiers are used to detect and identify transformer faults. The IGA-XGBoost1 is trained to separate the normal samples from the fault samples. The selected fault samples by the IGA-XGBoost1 are fed to the trained IGA-XGBoost2 and classified as PD, D, and T. Then, the IGA-XGBoost3 and the IGA-XGBoost4 are used to identify the D1, D2, T1&#x26;2, and&#x20;T3.</p>
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<label>FIGURE 3</label>
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<p>Structure of the IGA-XGBoost. The IGA is used for the combined optimization of the input features and the XGBoost parameters, and the trained XGBoost is used to identify the fault&#x20;types.</p>
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<p>Structure of the transformer fault diagnosis system based on the IGA-XGBoost. Transformer states are classified into six categories, and four IGA-XGBoost classifiers are used to diagnose the fault type step by step in the transformer fault diagnosis system.</p>
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<title>3 Simulation Result</title>
<p>The DGA data set employed in this study is originated from Ref (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B18">Kirkbas et&#x20;al., 2020</xref>). The data is divided into the training data set (125 samples) and the test data set (25 samples). These samples correspond to six states of the transformer. For each fault state, the number of samples used for the training and test process is shown in <xref ref-type="table" rid="T2">Table&#x20;2</xref>.</p>
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<p>Numbers of DGA data used in the training and test process.</p>
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<th align="center">Number of training samples</th>
<th align="center">Number of test samples</th>
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<td align="left">NF</td>
<td align="center">21</td>
<td align="center">5</td>
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<td align="center">16</td>
<td align="center">3</td>
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<td align="center">18</td>
<td align="center">4</td>
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<td align="center">23</td>
<td align="center">6</td>
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<td align="center">3</td>
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<td align="center">4</td>
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<title>3.1 Performance of the Proposed Method</title>
<p>The proposed method is used for transformer fault diagnosis and compared with another transformer fault diagnosis system based on the TGA and the XGBoost, which has the same structure as the proposed method shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F4">Figure&#x20;4</xref>. The only difference between these two methods is that one uses the TGA while the other uses the IGA. To ensure the validity of the selected features and classifier parameters by IGA in the training process, the average accuracy of 8-fold cross-validation is taken as the fitness value. Therefore, the fitness curve is the average accuracy curve of cross-validation. The maximum generation number was 200. The initial population scale was set at 200, and the fitness of each iteration&#x2019;s best individual was collected to form the best fitness curve shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F5">Figure&#x20;5</xref>. <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F5">Figure&#x20;5</xref> portrays the operation of the proposed method in five different independent implementations. <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F6">Figure&#x20;6</xref> compares the proposed method and the transformer fault diagnosis system based on the TGA and the XGBoost for the global best fitness value in the training process.</p>
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<p>Performance of the transformer fault diagnosis system in training process, <bold>(A)</bold> is the best fitness curves of the IGA-XGBoost1 for N-F identification, <bold>(B)</bold> is the best fitness curves of the IGA-XGBoost2 for PD-D-T identification, <bold>(C)</bold> is the best fitness curves of the IGA-XGBoost3 for D1-D2 identification, <bold>(D)</bold> is the best fitness curves of the IGA-XGBoost4 for T1&#x26;2-T3 identification.</p>
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<p>The comparison of the global best fitness value among methods, <bold>(A)</bold> is the global best fitness value of the TGA, <bold>(B)</bold> is the global best fitness value of the IGA. The higher the global fitness value represents a better solution.</p>
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<p>It can be seen from <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F5">Figure&#x20;5</xref> that the proposed method can achieve the same fitness value for the normal or fault (N-F) identification in different independent experiments using the IGA-XGBoost1. The global best fitness value can reach 99.22%. When detecting PD, D, or T fault (PD-D-T), the IGA-XGBoost2 also can gain the same high global fitness value of 99.04%. Besides, the proposed method can even 100% distinguish D1 and D2 faults (D1-D2) using the IGA-XGBoost3. Although the global fitness value was not as high as that of other faults identification when detecting T1&#x26;2 or T3 fault (T1&#x26;2-T3), most of them reached 97.92%, with only one fitness value reaching 95.83%. Compared with the method based on the traditional GA and the XGBoost, as can be seen from <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F6">Figure&#x20;6A</xref>, the global fitness value of the method based on the traditional GA and the XGBoost varies with independent implementations, and its global best fitness value is also significantly lower than that of the proposed method (see <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F6">Figure&#x20;6B</xref>). For N-F identification, the global best fitness value of the method based on the TGA ranged from 92.8 to 98.4%. As for T1&#x26;2-T3 identification, the global best fitness value of the method based on the TGA ranged from 86.5 to 98.1%. It can be seen from the above results that the IGA can achieve better solutions.</p>
<p>Performance measures such as average fitness value, likelihood of evolution leap, and likelihood of optimality have been taken into consideration to measure the enhancement of the IGA in the optimization problem. <xref ref-type="table" rid="T3">Table&#x20;3</xref> shows the average fitness value in the 100th and 200th generations for both the TGA and the IGA. <xref ref-type="table" rid="T4">Table&#x20;4</xref> shows the likelihood of evolution leap in the 100th and 200th generations for both the TGA and the IGA. <xref ref-type="table" rid="T5">Table&#x20;5</xref> shows the likelihood of optimality in the 100th and 200th generations for both TGA and the IGA. As can be seen from <xref ref-type="table" rid="T3">Table&#x20;3</xref>, compared with TGA, the average fitness values of IGA after 200 generations have increased 2.4, 1.7, 6.6% when detecting N-F, PD-D-T, and T1&#x26;2-T3, respectively. Besides, the average fitness values of IGA after 100 generations are higher than that of TGA after 200 generations, which proves that IGA has better search capability than the TGA. <xref ref-type="table" rid="T4">Table&#x20;4</xref> shows the average number of evolution leaps of the IGA is higher than the TGA, which indicates that the IGA has a continuous change in solution from one generation to the next. <xref ref-type="table" rid="T5">Table&#x20;5</xref> shows the probability of obtaining the optimal solution, the average likelihood of optimality of the IGA is 95%, compared to 30% of the TGA, which guarantees a feasible solution. The above results show that the IGA can get the optimal solution stably and reliably. For the test, <xref ref-type="table" rid="T6">Table&#x20;6</xref> shows the recognition accuracy of different methods for the test samples. The results in <xref ref-type="table" rid="T6">Table&#x20;6</xref> show that the proposed method has the best performance in transformer fault diagnosis with an average identification accuracy of 99.2%, compared to 94.4% of the method based on the TGA and XGBoost. Combined with the results of the test samples and the above results, it is shown that the proposed method can effectively and reliably identify transformer faults.</p>
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<p>Average fitness value f(k).</p>
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<td align="center">0.973</td>
<td align="center">0.973</td>
<td align="center">0.987</td>
<td align="center">0.99</td>
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<td align="center">1</td>
<td align="center">1</td>
<td align="center">1</td>
<td align="center">1</td>
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<td align="center">0.908</td>
<td align="center">0.908</td>
<td align="center">0.967</td>
<td align="center">0.974</td>
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<p>Likelihood of evolution leap Lel(k).</p>
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<th colspan="2" align="center">Traditional GA mutation rate &#x3d; 0.01</th>
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<td align="center">After 100 generations</td>
<td align="center">After 100 generations</td>
<td align="center">After 100 generations</td>
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<td align="center">0.44</td>
<td align="center">0.48</td>
<td align="center">0.72</td>
<td align="center">0.72</td>
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<td align="center">0.64</td>
<td align="center">0.64</td>
<td align="center">0.88</td>
<td align="center">1</td>
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<td align="center">0.2</td>
<td align="center">0.2</td>
<td align="center">0.2</td>
<td align="center">0.2</td>
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<td align="center">0.48</td>
<td align="center">0.48</td>
<td align="center">1.12</td>
<td align="center">1.2</td>
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<p>Likelihood of optimality <italic>Lopt(k</italic>).</p>
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<tr>
<td colspan="1" align="left">Fault type</td>
<th colspan="2" align="center">Traditional GA mutation rate &#x3d; 0.01</th>
<th colspan="2" align="center">Improved GA</th>
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<td align="center">After 100 generations</td>
<td align="center">After 100 generations</td>
<td align="center">After 100 generations</td>
<td align="center">After 100 generations</td>
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<td align="left">N-F</td>
<td align="center">0.2</td>
<td align="center">0.2</td>
<td align="center">1</td>
<td align="center">1</td>
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<td align="center">0</td>
<td align="center">0</td>
<td align="center">0.6</td>
<td align="center">1</td>
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<td align="center">1</td>
<td align="center">1</td>
<td align="center">1</td>
<td align="center">1</td>
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<td align="center">0</td>
<td align="center">0.4</td>
<td align="center">0.8</td>
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<td align="center">0.25</td>
<td align="center">0.3</td>
<td align="center">0.75</td>
<td align="center">0.95</td>
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<p>Accuracy of different methods for the test samples.</p>
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<tr>
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<th align="center">Accuracy</th>
<td align="center">&#x2014;</td>
<td align="center">&#x2014;</td>
<th align="center">Accuracy</th>
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<td align="center">25/25</td>
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<td align="center">Run 2</td>
<td align="center">24/25</td>
<td align="center">Run 2</td>
<td align="center">25/25</td>
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<td align="center">24/25</td>
<td align="center">Run 3</td>
<td align="center">24/25</td>
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<td align="center">Run 4</td>
<td align="center">23/25</td>
<td align="center">Run 4</td>
<td align="center">25/25</td>
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<td align="center">23/25</td>
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<td align="center">Run 5</td>
<td align="center">25/25</td>
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<title>3.2 Comparison With Other Methods</title>
<p>In <xref ref-type="table" rid="T7">Table&#x20;7</xref>, the performance of the proposed method is also compared with other methods. The compared methods include DGA methods and intelligent transformer fault diagnosis methods, including IEC ratios, dual triangle, support vector machine, and common vector approach. The common vector approach has been recently introduced for the transformer fault diagnosis, and the support vector machine is a commonly used algorithm for transformer fault diagnosis. The result shows that the accuracy of DGA methods is relatively low, such as IEC ratios with an accuracy of 60% and the dual triangle method with an accuracy of 52%. In contrast to the DGA methods, intelligent transformer fault diagnosis methods based on intelligence algorithms and DGA methods have remarkable performance. The accuracy of the transformer fault identified by the proposed method is the highest, reaching 99.2%. Compared to 88% for support vector machines and 96% for CVA, the diagnostic accuracy of the proposed method was improved by 11.2 and 3.6%, respectively. The result proves that the proposed method can effectively improve the accuracy of transformer fault identification.</p>
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<p>Result comparison with other methods.</p>
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<th align="center">Dual triangle (%)</th>
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<td align="left">Accuracy</td>
<td align="center">60</td>
<td align="center">52</td>
<td align="center">88</td>
<td align="center">96</td>
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<title>4 Conclusion</title>
<p>A novel and effective transformer fault diagnosis system based on the IGA-XGBoost is conducted to diagnose transformer fault types and verified in this paper. The modifications improve the global search capability of the IGA, and the IGA can get the optimal combined solution of input feature selection and the XGBoost classifier optimization reliably and stably. Based on the IGA, the IGA-XGBoost can accurately deal with different recognition problems, including N-F, PD-D-T, D1-D2, and T1&#x26;2-T3. Due to the excellent performance of the IGA-XGBoost, the average accuracy of the proposed transformer fault diagnosis system has been improved to 99.2%. Compared to IEC ratios, Dual triangle, SVM, and CVA, the simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method can be a reliable solution for transformer fault diagnosis.</p>
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<p>Publicly available datasets were analyzed in this study. This data can be found here: doi: <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsr.2020.106346">10.1016/j.epsr.2020.106346</ext-link>.</p>
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<title>Author Contributions</title>
<p>The individual contributions of authors are as follows: data curation, MZ; methodology, ZL; supervision, XC; validation, YH; writing (original draft), ZW. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.</p>
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<title>Funding</title>
<p>This research is supported by Fujian Province Young and Middle-aged Teacher Education and Research Project (Grant No. JAT190592), China.</p>
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