To further improve fault diagnosis accuracy, a new hybrid feature selection approach combined with a genetic algorithm (GA) and support vector machine (SVM) is presented in this study. Adaptive synthetic technique and arctangent transformation method are adopted to improve the statistical property of the training set (IEC TC10 dataset). Five filter methods based on different evaluation metrics are employed to rank 48 input features derived from dissolved gas analysis (DGA). Then, feature combination methods are applied to aggregate feature ranks and form a lower‐dimension candidate feature subset. The GA–SVM model is implemented to optimise parameters and select optimal feature subsets. 5‐fold cross‐validation accuracy of the GA‐SVM is used to evaluate fault diagnosis capability of feature subsets and finally, a novel subset is determined as the optimal feature subset. Accuracy comparison manifests the superiority of the optimal feature subsets over that of conventional approaches. Besides, generalisation and robustness of the optimal subset are validated by testing DGA samples from the local power utility. Results indicate that the optimal feature subset obtained by the proposed method can significantly improve the accuracies of power transformer fault diagnosis.

Forecasting dissolved gas content in power transformers plays a significant role in detecting incipient faults and maintaining the safety of the power system. Though various forecasting models have been developed, there is still room to further improve prediction performance. In this paper, a new forecasting model is proposed by combining mixed kernel function-based support vector regression (MKF-SVR) and genetic algorithm (GA). First, forecasting performance of SVR models constructed with a single kernel are compared, and then Gaussian kernel and polynomial kernel are retained due to better learning and prediction ability. Next, a mixed kernel, which integrates a Gaussian kernel with a polynomial kernel, is used to establish a SVR-based forecasting model. Genetic algorithm (GA) and leave-one-out cross validation are employed to determine the free parameters of MKF-SVR, while mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) and squared correlation coefficient (r²) are applied to assess the quality of the parameters. The proposed model is implemented on a practical dissolved gas dataset and promising results are obtained. Finally, the forecasting performance of the proposed model is compared with three other approaches, including RBFNN, GRNN and GM. The experimental and comparison results demonstrate that the proposed model outperforms other popular models in terms of forecasting accuracy and fitting capability.

This article puts forward a facial expression recognition (FER) algorithm based on multi-feature fusion and convolutional neural network (CNN) to solve the problem that FER is susceptible to interference factors such as non-uniform illumination, thereby reducing the recognition rate of facial expressions. It starts by extracting the multi-layer representation information (asymmetric region local binary pattern [AR-LBP]) of facial expression images and cascading them to minimize the loss of facial expression texture information. In addition, an improved algorithm called divided local directional pattern (DLDP) is used to extract the original facial expression image features, which not only retains the original texture information but also reduces the time consumption. With a weighted fusion of the features extracted from the above two facial expressions, new AR-LBP-DLDP facial local features are then obtained. Later, CNN is used to extract global features of facial expressions, and the local features of AR-LBP-DLDP obtained by weighted fusion are cascaded and fused with the global features extracted by the CNN, thereby producing the final facial expression features. Ultimately, the final facial expression features are input into Softmax for training and classification. The results show that the proposed algorithm, with good robustness and real-time performance, effectively improves the recognition rate of facial expressions.