2020 journal article

FeederGAN: Synthetic Feeder Generation via Deep Graph Adversarial Nets

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SMART GRID, 12(2), 1163–1173.

By: M. Liang  n, Y. Meng  n, J. Wang n, D. Lubkeman n  & N. Lu n 

author keywords: Topology; Generative adversarial networks; Directed graphs; Deep learning; Network topology; Gallium nitride; Integrated circuit modeling; Deep learning; distribution system; generative adversarial networks (GAN); graph convolutional networks (GCN); graph theory; synthetic feeder
TL;DR: This article presents a novel, automated, generative adversarial networks (GAN) based synthetic feeder generation mechanism, abbreviated as FeederGAN, which resembles the actual feeder in both topology and attributes verified by visual inspection and by empirical statistics obtained from actual distribution feeders. (via Semantic Scholar)
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This article presents a novel, automated, generative adversarial networks (GAN) based synthetic feeder generation mechanism, abbreviated as FeederGAN. FeederGAN digests real feeder models represented by directed graphs via a deep learning framework powered by GAN and graph convolutional networks (GCN). Information of a distribution feeder circuit is extracted from its model input files so that the device connectivity is mapped onto the adjacency matrix and the device characteristics, such as circuit types (i.e., 3-phase, 2-phase, and 1-phase) and component attributes (e.g., length and current ratings), are mapped onto the attribute matrix. Then, Wasserstein distance is used to optimize the GAN and GCN is used to discriminate the generated graphs from the actual ones. A greedy method based on graph theory is developed to reconstruct the feeder using the generated adjacency and attribute matrices. Our results show that the GAN generated feeders resemble the actual feeder in both topology and attributes verified by visual inspection and by empirical statistics obtained from actual distribution feeders.