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cost and convenience in installation and maintenance. Fig. 2. An illustration of current sensor installation outside a panel.
Current measurement is a fundamental need for power
system monitoring and diagnosis. Steady-state current infor-
mation, including root-mean-square (RMS) value and phasor, sufficient information required by the aforementioned appli-
enables multiple applications like energy use metering [1], cations. Also, field personnels are unable to break the cable
troubleshooting (e.g., identify unbalanced phase) [2], dynamic enclosure/connector or open the panel to access individual
thermal rating [3], predictive maintenance [4]. More advanced conductors, due to safety regulations. Space near cable joint
power quality applications are enabled if current waveforms is commonly limited for installing current probes, especially
are available, such as fault anticipation and diagnosis [5], inside a panel or at a space-limited facility. There is, therefore,
condition monitoring [6], end-user behavior modeling [7], etc. a need for a non-invasive instrument to identify all currents on
A power cable encloses one or more electrical conductors individual conductors in a multi-core cable, contactlessly from
held with a sheath/armor. For example, a four-conductor Teck the outside of the cable enclosure. Fig. 2 further illustrates the
cable for ABC-N phase connection is illustrated in Fig. 1. non-invasive approach of cable current measurement.
Existing current sensing device, like clamp-on current probe, For such multi-conductor systems, sensor array is used to
is designed for single conductor cases. For multi-core (also capture magnetic fields nearby and reversely determine the
known as multi-conductor or multi-phase) cables, conventional currents inside [8]. Similar concepts were practiced for current
current probe is only able to identify the net current, i.e., measurement of overhead lines [9], [10], where conductors
zero-sequence current for a three-phase system, instead of are inaccessible hence a non-invasive approach is preferred.
individual currents of each conductor. It is unable to obtain Reference [11] investigated current monitoring method for
underground multi-core cables in a substation, which is based
This work was supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation
of China (51607155, 51507121) and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation on priori knowledge of conductor geometry. However, for most
(20150004). of applications, such information is not available. This work
G. Geng is with the College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, proposes a current sensing approach to identify conductor
Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, China.
X. Yang is with the School of Energy and Power Engineering, Wuhan positions and currents of multiple conductors simultaneously,
University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China based on a non-linear least squares algorithm. Conductor
W. Hammond is with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Univer- geometry is not necessary to know beforehand.
sity of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada.
Y. Gao and W. Xu are with the Department of Electrical and Computer To verify this idea, a prototype current sensing instrument
Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada. is developed. A mounting structure is designed to clamp the
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instrument on the cable jacket. Current phasors at fundamental of sensors located at different positions around the cable is
frequency as well as harmonic currents are identified. Distur- used to establish sufficient number of equations as (2). If the
bances, like sag or swell events, are detected by the proposed number of equations is greater than or equal to the number of
approach. Based on a laboratory test bed, experiment results unknowns, the currents on each conductor can be solved.
confirm the technical feasibility to achieve the aforementioned For example, for a four-conductor Teck cable shown in
goals. Also, a field test is carried out for further validation Fig. 1, each conductor has four unknowns (xI , yI , real and
using a real-world multi-core cable in a utility facility. The imaginary part of If ). The total number of unknowns is
proposed approach is expected to enable the capability of 16. Each sensor is able to establish two equations (real and
measuring multi-core cables for state-of-the-art power quality imaginary part of Vf ). Therefore, at least eight sensors at
analyzer/monitor technology, which is commonly based on different positions have to be employed.
clamp-like current probes designed for single conductor. Once sufficient number of equations are obtained, a non-
linear least-squares (NLLS) formulation can be set up to solve
II. P RINCIPLE OF C URRENT S ENSING all the unknowns, which will be covered in the next section.
An AC current phasor If at frequency f on a straight
conductor generates an alternating magnetic field around it. III. N ON -L INEAR L EAST-S QUARES F ORMULATION
µ0 cos δ A. Basic NLLS Formulation
Bf = If (1) The idea of least-squares is to find the optimal input of a
2πr
model that best fits the measured output using an optimization
where Bf is magnetic flux density at an arbitrary location
formulation. In the problem of multi-core cable current mea-
with position and angular distance r and δ to the conductor.
surement for a given frequency f , e.g., fundamental frequency,
µ0 is magnetic permeability constant. Note that, this is valid
we are looking at the best combination of conductor positions
as long as there is no cable shield or the shield is made of
and currents that is able to best fit measured voltage signals
non-magnetic material like aluminum.
Such magnetic field can be detected by magnetic field sensor from the sensor array. For any given combination, one is able
placed at the given location, it is able to convert magnetic flux to calculate the sensor output voltage using (3). The objective
density to its output voltage. The relationship between sensor function of NLLS is to minimize the difference between the
output voltage and magnetic flux density is defined as calculated voltages and the measured voltages by finding the
best combination of conductor positions and currents.
µ0 cos δ Following the idea above, we are able to set up a basic
Vf = ρf eiφf Bf = ρf eiφf If . (2)
2πr version of NLLS formulation as (4) on the bottom of this
where gain factor ρf and phase shift φf are used to describe page, where SI is the conductor set with dimension n and
the behavior (i.e., sensitivity) of a magnetic field sensor. superscript/subscript j, SS is the conductor set with dimension
Assume (xI , yI ) and (xS , yS ) as the positions of the con- m and superscript/subscript k. In this formulation, conductor
ductor and the sensor in a Cartesian coordinate system, the positions (xjI , yIj ) and currents If,j of all conductors are to
sensor output voltage Vf can be expressed by the equation be determined. Auxiliary variables Vf,k,j , representing the
as (3). Detailed formulation derivation and the method to voltage component of k-th sensor caused by j-th conductor
determine sensor parameters can be found in [12], [13]. current just as defined in (3), are also to be optimized. The
In the problem of current measurement using external accumulation of such components from all the conductors is
magnetic field sensor, sensor position (xS , yS ), frequency namely the calculated sensor voltages, whose difference with
response (ρf , φf ) and output voltage phasor Vf are all known, respect to the measured values Vf,k is minimized. Necessary
conductor position (xI , yI ) and current phasor If are to be inequality constraints are also included. First, all the conductor
determined. Moreover, for a multi-conductor system like a positions should be inside the circular sensor array with radius
multi-core cable, the sensed magnetic field is the overlap of RI . Second, each current magnitude has to be below their
individual magnetic fields generated by multiple currents on upper bound If,max , which is commonly the rated current of
different conductors. In order to solve the unknowns, an array a cable or the load it is serving.
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B. Enhanced NLLS Formulation using Harmonics established as (6). The equations of the identified harmonics
The basic NLLS formulation (4) is sufficient to identify are included in the NLLS, measuring accuracy is improved
currents at a given frequency, i.e., fundamental frequency given additional observed information.
for most of the cases. However, if currents with more than
one frequencies are observed on cable conductors, e.g., fun- C. Auxiliary Constraints
damental current with harmonics, it is possible to utilize The following auxiliary constraints may be added into the
such harmonics to further enhance the accuracy of current NLLS formulation aforementioned, in order to utilize optional
measurement, with some minor modifications based on the information to increase measuring performance.
basic NLLS formulation (4). 1) Zero-Sequence Current Constraint: For a three-phase
For a periodical AC current waveform i(t), one is able to cable serving a system without its own ground current, e.g.,
perform Fourier transformation to obtain a series of current a delta-connected load, one is able to assume zero-sequence
phasors at different discrete frequencies {I1 · · · If · · · IFmax }, current is zero. Therefore, the following constraint can be
where Fmax is the maximum harmonic order. Similar trans- added into the NLLS formualtion to provide more information.
formation can be done on sensor output voltage to obtain X
{V1 · · · Vf · · · VFmax } from its time-domain signal v(t). Each If,j = 0 ∀f ∈ SF (7)
harmonic current component generates magnetic field around j∈SI
the cable and therefore contributes to sensor output voltage 2) Cable Geometry Constraints: The cable specification
as (3), both at the corresponding frequency. Hence, one is may be available in some application scenarios, in such
able to establish more equations like (3) for various harmonic circumstance the geometry distances of conductors may be
frequencies. Note that, all these harmonics enabled equations known beforehand. Corresponding geometry constraints as (8)
share the same conductor positions (xI , yI ), they are able to (on the bottom of the page) can be used to assist optimum
significantly increase the redundancy of the established NLLS searching, where dj1 ,j2 is the reference distance between j1 -
formulation and therefore enhance the measuring accuracy. th and j2 -th conductors. ∆d is the tolerance value.
One practical issue is how to determine which harmonic
orders to be used in the additional NLLS equations. Including
IV. M ETHOD OF C URRENT M EASUREMENT
all the harmonic orders, i.e., from 1 to Fmax , is technically
infeasible because it will dramatically increase the dimension A. Trans-Impedance Matrix
of NLLS and reduce its solving efficiency. Also, for most Once the proposed NLLS formulation is solved, the rela-
of the cases, only a limited number of harmonic orders are tionship between sensor output voltage Vf,k and conductor
observed in the measured currents. Therefore, the following current If,j is established. It can be simplified by introducing
strategy is designed to determine the effective harmonic order the concept of trans-impedance matrix [Z], which regards
set SF , which indicates the best combination of harmonic the cable-sensor system as a black box with an impedance
orders that one or more cable currents may have. based circuit network, represented by an impedance matrix
|Vf,k |
[Z]. Therefore the currents and the voltages follow a linear
SF = max ≥ IHD, ∀f ∈ [1 . . . Fmax ] (5) relationship as (9), where each matrix element Zf,k,j is
k∈SS |V1,k |
evaluated as (10) on the bottom of the page.
According to this strategy, the harmonic orders with suf-
ficiently large sensor voltage individual harmonic distortion Vf,1 Zf,1,1 . . . Zf,1,nI If,1
.. .. .. .. ..
(IHD) (greater than a threshold IHD) are selected. The fol- = . (9)
. . . .
lowing enhanced NLLS formulation with harmonics can be Vf,nS Zf,nS ,1 ... Zf,nS ,nI If,nI
X 2
min ψ(xjI , yIj , If,j , Vf,k,j )
P
= Vf,k − j∈SI Vf,k,j
f ∈SF ,j∈SI ,k∈SS k∈SS ,f ∈SF
j 2 j 2 2
(xI ) + (y I ) ≤ R I
|If,j | ≤ If,max
(6)
s.t. h i
µ0 ρf,k eiφf,k If,j (xkS cos θk − ySk sin θk )(xkS − xjI ) + (ySk cos θk + xkS sin θk )(ySk − yIj )
Vf,k,j = q h i
2π (xk )2 + (y k )2 (xk − xj )2 + (y k − y j )2
S S S I S I
2 2
(dj1 ,j2 − ∆d) ≤ (xjI1 − xjI2 )2 + (yIj1 − yIj2 )2 ≤ (dj1 ,j2 + ∆d) , ∀j1 , j2 ∈ SI , j1 6= j2 (8)
h i
µ0 ρf,k eiφf,k xkS cos θk − ySk sin θk xkS − xjI + ySk cos θk + xkS sin θk ySk − yIj
Zf,k,j = q 2 2 (10)
k
2 k
2 k j k j
2π xS + yS xS − xI + yS − yI
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Fourier Transformation
Output: Currents in time domain i(t) Fig. 4. A close-up view of the sensor array and its PCBs.
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TABLE I 90
120 6 60
C URRENT P HASOR M EASUREMENT R ESULT OF BALANCED C ASES
Y Axis (mm)
TABLE III
M EASURING R ESULTS AFTER R EMOVING M ULTIPLE S ENSORS
0
Number of Sensors (nS ) E (A) E%
24 0.680 4.602%
23 0.702 4.922% -10
22 0.701 4.913%
21 0.696 4.883%
20 0.821 5.761% -20 Sensor
Conductor
The cable was randomly placed at three positions inside -20 -10 0 10 20
X Axis (mm)
the cable holder for this test. Balanced and unbalanced three-
phase currents were used to emulate possible cable loading Fig. 10. Conductor positions of a typical four-conductor problem.
conditions. For balanced cases, currents ranging from 2A to
16A were tested as Table I, where neutral currents were zeros 90
120 15 60
and only three conductors were measured. For unbalanced
cases, eight combinations of three-phase load currents were
10
tested as Table II (numbers in current combination column 150 30
indicate resistor branches used in each phase), where neutral
5
currents were non-zero and four conductor currents were
identified. The error for balanced and unbalanced cases are
180 0 0
less than 5% and 8%, respectively.
Take an unbalanced case as an example, the sensor output
voltage phasor is illustrated in Fig. 9, which are the input
of the proposed method shown in Fig. 3. The calculated 210 330
conductor positions and current phasors are shown in Fig. 10
and 11, respectively. Acceptable error is observed between Reference Current (A)
the reference currents measured by current probes and the 240 300
Calculated Current (A)
270
calculated currents using the proposed method.
As the designed sensor array has sufficient redundancy, it Fig. 11. Current phasors of a typical four-conductor problem.
is able to achieve robust measurement accuracy when one
or more sensors are incidentally failed or removed due to
limited install space. Table III shows the measuring results in this scheme to quantify the difference between of reference
after removing multiple sensors from the array. and calculated current waveforms with harmonics. Smaller
value of Et indicates better current measurement accuracy.
C. Scheme 2: Harmonic Analysis
XZ T
Instead of fundamental frequency phasor based error indices Et = ij (t) − ij (t) dt (16)
as (14)(15), we use the index of time-domain error Et as (16) j∈SI 0
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Reference Current 15
8 Calculated Current
Current (A) 10
6
5
Current (A)
4
0
2
-5
0
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 -10
Harmonic Order Reference Current
-15 Calculated Current
Fig. 12. Frequency spectrum of currents with harmonics. 0 0.05 0.1 0.15
Time (sec)
30
Phase A Phase B Phase C Neutral Fig. 14. Reference and calculated currents in event detection.
20
10
Current (A)
-10
-20
Reference Current
Calculated Current
-30
0 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04 0.05 0.06 0.07 0.08
Time (sec)
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, United States and Department of
The authors would like to thank ATCO Electric for techni- Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB,
Canada. His research interest includes power system measurement and power
cal communications, and Utilities Department, University of system dynamics.
Alberta Facilities and Operations for on-site assistance in the
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communication and information systems from Wuhan University, Wuhan,
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