This invention belongs to the field of
positioning technology, specifically relating to a transient traveling wave positioning method for broken strand faults in overhead insulated conductors. The method includes: acquiring a single-end
transient current signal of the line, obtaining a reconstructed
signal through
bandpass filtering, and performing an initial time-
frequency domain transformation to obtain an initial time-frequency distribution; calculating the power spectrum and constructing a parallel time-varying parameter oscillator array to obtain multiple
narrowband enhanced signals; performing a second time-
frequency domain transformation on the enhanced signals to construct a fused time-frequency
energy matrix; extracting the
modulus maxima propagation path from the matrix; determining the arrival times of the initial traveling wave and the reverse polarity fault reflection wave based on the moment when the singularity characteristic index first enters the abrupt change threshold interval; and calculating the fault
distance based on the calibrated traveling
wave velocity and the single-end traveling wave
ranging principle. This method effectively suppresses
noise and enhances weak features, significantly improving the accuracy of
wavefront identification and the reliability of single-end positioning.