The invention relates to a single-end fault positioning method suitable for a multi-
branch power distribution network, which belongs to the technical field of fault positioning of a power distribution line, and comprises the following steps of: 1, calibrating a fault reflection
head wave arrival time tf1 through a reflection wave
arrival time sequence after injecting a
signal; step 2, performing time-frequency transformation on the pure reflected wave
signal by adopting WVD to obtain a time-energy curve of the main frequency f0 of the
head wave reflected by the fault point, determining the central position and the interval range of a time-frequency window Wi, and constructing an
energy distribution vector of each reflected wave in sequence by sliding the time-frequency area Wi; 3, introducing
cosine similarity to carry out quantitative evaluation on similarity between
energy distribution vectors of the fault reflection
head wave and other reflection
waves, and screening fault characteristic reflection
waves through a similarity threshold value
delta; 4, calculating the relative position of a fault point through the
propagation time difference, and judging a fault
branch in combination with the topology of the power distribution network.