This invention discloses a distributed photovoltaic (PV)
power quality assessment method based on an improved
Volterra series and adaptive interval type-two
fuzzy logic. The method involves acquiring and preprocessing raw
voltage signals from key nodes of the distributed PV
system to obtain real-time PV operating parameters, calculating a
light intensity weighting factor, and then calculating the Volterra output and extracting core features based on the
light intensity weighting factor, the preprocessed
voltage signals, and pre-calculated first-order and symmetric second-order kernels. These core features are mapped to IT2FS, and the Mamdani
inference method is used to obtain the IT2FS
inference results from a
PV power quality rule base. The
centroid method is then used to reduce the type of perturbation and its
severity level for the core features. The source of the perturbation is determined based on the feature threshold and the core feature value. This invention achieves accurate assessment of the type,
severity level, and source of
power quality perturbations in distributed PV systems.