Potential applications of expert systems to power system protection

Working Group D10 Applications of Expert Systems to Power System Protection of the Line Protection Subcommittee, Power System Relaying Committee, was organized in 1989 with the following assignment as finally adopted: "Survey expert system technology to identify suitable and significant applications to power system protection. Write a technical paper that introduces protection engineers to expert systems and describes several potential applications". This paper represents the work performed by the Working Group in fulfilling its assignment. The paper is divided into sections that describe a number of potential applications thought to be significant by the members of the Working Group. >