Research on Classification of Daily Load Curve of Distribution Network Based on Improved SSA-FCM

Abstract In the analysis of three-phase unbalance in distribution network, the accuracy of daily load curve classification results determines the size of three-phase unbalance. Aiming at the shortcomings of Fuzzy C-Means (FCM), a fuzzy C-Means clustering algorithm (SSA-FCM) optimized based on Sparrow Search Algorithm (SSA) is proposed. The cluster validity evaluation index is introduced to get the optimal quantity of clusters, and the SSA is used to search for the initial cluster center, which solves the problem that the FCM algorithm relies on the initial value and is easy to converge to local optimal solution. The simulation results show that, compared with the FCM algorithm, the load curves classified into the same category by SSA-FCM are closer together.