Active Diverse Learning Neural Network Ensemble Approach for Power Transformer Fault Diagnosis

An ensemble learning algorithm was proposed in this paper by analyzing the error function of neural network ensembles, by which, individual neural networks were actively guided to learn diversity. By decomposing the ensemble error function, error correlation terms were included in the learning criterion function of individual networks. And all the individual networks in the ensemble were leaded to learn diversity through cooperative training. The method was applied in Dissolved Gas Analysis based fault diagnosis of power transformer. Experiment results show that, the algorithm has higher accuracy than IEC method and BP network. In addition, the performance is more stable than conventional ensemble method, i.e., Bagging and Boosting.