Qi Liu

Dr. Qi Liu

Department of Electrical and Computer and Energy Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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Academic Career Length

9Years (2018-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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24 August 2018 in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy
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YZYingying Zhao
Yingying Zhao
Qi LiuQi Liu
Qi Liu
DLDongsheng Li
Dongsheng Li
DKDahai Kang
Dahai Kang
QLQin Lv
Qin Lv
LSLi Shang
Li Shang
Operation anomalies are common phenomena in large-scale solar farms. Effective anomaly detection and classification is essential for improving operation reliability and electricity generation. However, this is a challenging task due to the high complexity and wide variety of frequently occurring anomalies. Furthermore, existing pre-installed supervisory control and data acquisition systems (SCADA) can only provide a limited amount of information regarding the healthy condition of solar farms, making accurate anomaly detection and classification difficult. This paper presents a data-driven anomaly detection and classification solution, which can accurately detect and classify diverse photovoltaic system anomalies. The proposed solution does not require additional equipment or non-SCADA data collection. More specifically, the proposed work consists of two methods: (1) a hierarchical context-aware anomaly detection method using unsupervised learning, and (2) a multimodal anomaly classification method. The proposed solution has been deployed in two large-scale solar farms (39.36 MWp and 21.62 MWp). Multi-month operation demonstrates the effectiveness, robustness, as well as cost- and computation-efficiency of the proposed solution.