Abstract:Arc grounding faults in distribution network are a great threat to system safety and personal safety, and fast and accurate detection means are one of the important technologies to prevent the risk. In order to achieve a high level of detection speed and accuracy for different voltage levels and system configurations, an arc grounding fault detection method based on time-frequency domain characteristics is proposed. The zero-sequence current is decomposed into single component sub-signals of different frequency bands by singular value decomposition and variational mode decomposition, and the obtained sub-signals have different band and center frequency, and it avoids the errors caused by mode mixing, which ensures the refine analysis of different harmonic components. And then, the instantaneous amplitude, phase and frequency of sub-signals are obtained by using Hilbert transform, and the instantaneous characteristics are taken as the main basis for detection. In order to ensure the classification accuracy of sequence signals during online calculation, a fault classifier based on long short-term memory (LSTM) network is designed to distinguish arc grounding from other cases. Finally, the performance of the proposed method is verified by the fault data of arc grounding in an actual distribution network.