The application relates to the technical field of
power cable insulation state monitoring and fault positioning, and discloses a buried cable
partial discharge three-dimensional
positioning system and method based on a UHF
phased array. The technical scheme of the application receives the ultra-
high frequency electromagnetic wave signals radiated by a buried cable
partial discharge source through a UHF
phased array antenna, carries out synchronous sampling and
digital conversion on the signals by using multi-channel high-speed synchronous acquisition, corrects the
signal propagation speed in the array manifold matrix in combination with soil
dielectric characteristic parameters, solves the initial three-dimensional coordinates according to the
time difference of signals in each channel, and carries out
spatial spectrum estimation and spectrum peak search in the neighborhood, so that the problems that the existing single-channel UHF detection can only qualitatively judge whether there is
partial discharge but cannot accurately position the
discharge source position, and that on-site operation and maintenance still needs large-area excavation to find the
discharge source, leading to low efficiency and high cost, are solved, the three-dimensional coordinates of the buried cable partial
discharge source are quickly and accurately acquired, the fault checking time is shortened, and the operation and maintenance cost is reduced.