VÍCTOR AUGUSTO BARRERA NÚÑEZ, PhD

- Thesis defended on 10th April 2012 -

Title: “Automatic diagnosis of voltage disturbances in power distribution networksPDF.

CIGRE member (Working group C4.112: Guidelines for Power Quality Monitoring)

“This PhD research was partially funded by the Spanish government under the project Intelligent Power Quality Monitoring i-PQM (reference project DPI2006-09370, scholarship BES-2007-14942) and ENDESA DISTRIBUCIÓN (Electric distribution company of Barcelona-Spain)”

University of Girona

Institute of Informatics and Applications

Girona, Catalonia, Spain

Email address: victor D-O-T barrera A-T udg D-O-T edu

Phone: +34 972 8391

My blog: VikBar.com

 

 

Indexed Journal publications

 

V. Barrera, J. Meléndez, S. Herraiz, “Waveform Segmentation for Intelligent Monitoring of Power Events”, Electric Power Systems Research (EPSR). DOI: 10.1016/j.epsr.2012.07.011, December 2012.

 

V. Barrera, J. Meléndez, S. Kulkarni, S. Santoso. Feature Analysis and Automatic Classification of Short-Circuit Faults Resulting from External Causes, European Transactions on Electrical Power (ETEP), DOI: 10.1002/etep.674, January, 2012.

 

V. Barrera, R. Velandia, F. Hernández, H. Vargas, J. Meléndez, “Relevant Attributes for Voltage Event Diagnosis in Power Distribution Networks”, Revista Iberoamericana de Automática e Informática Industrial, submitted in November 2010, Manuscript 11077-28049-1-SM. Paper in fourth review.

 

V. Barrera, J. Meléndez, S. Herraiz, "Evaluation of Fault Relative Location Algorithms Using Voltage Sag Data Collected at 25-kV Substations", Special Issue on Power Quality, European Transactions on Electrical Power (ETEP), DOI: 10.1002/etep.393, October, 2009.

 

N. Ortiz, J. Blanco, G. Ordoñez, V. Barrera, “Characterization of Power Quality Disturbances Resulting from Current Limiting Fuses Operation”, Revista Ingeniería e Investigación, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2011.

 

J. Blanco, R. Leal, J. Jacome, J.F. Petit, G. Ordóñez and V. Barrera, “Propagation of Voltage Sags: Influence of Transformers, Induction Motors and Fault Resistance”, Revista Ingeniería e Investigación, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2011.

 

V. Barrera, X. Berjaga, G. Ordóñez, J. Meléndez, “Estrategias para la localización relativa de la fuente de huecos de tensión en sistemas de distribución de energía eléctrica”, Revista Facultad de Ingeniería Universidad de Antioquía, N.° 50 pp. 159-169, Diciembre, 2009.

 

J. Mora, V. Barrera, G. Carrillo, “Fault Location in Power Distribution Systems Using a Learning Algorithm for Multivariable Data Analysis”. IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 22, no. 3, July 2007, pp. 1715-1721.

 

Research stays

 

2011


 

National University of Colombia, Electric and Electronic Department, PAAS Research Group, Bogotá, Colombia.

Supervisor: Andrés Pavas Martinez and Horacio Torres Sánchez.

Subject: It was focused on the analysis of the power quality database of the main electricity Utility of Bogota (CODENSA), identifying from 280 substations those with power quality problems and proposing novel statistical methodologies for substation ranking according to their electric power quality.

Date: February 3 to April 30, 2011.

 

2010


 

Chalmers University of Technology, Signal Processing Department, Goteborg, Sweden.

Supervisor: Math Bollen and Irene Yu Hua-Gu, Signal Processing Research group.

Subject: The research topic is on signal processing methods for power system disturbance analysis and classification. More specifically, investigating the underlying causes of voltage dips and developing novel and efficient analysis methods for diagnostic purposes.

Date: March 1 to May 31, 2010.

 

2009


 

The University of Texas at Austin, Electrical and Computer Engineering Deparment, Austin, Texas.

Supervisor: Ph. D Surya Santoso, LASPIRES Research group

Subject: It was focused on examining voltage sag phenomena and developing analytical tools to determine the root cause of the events (Lightning-induced, animal-contact, tree-contact or cable fault events). EPRI provided the real-world data.

Date: September 1 to December 15, 2009.

 

2008


 

Industrial University of Santander, Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Colombia.

Supervisor: Ph. D Gabriel Ordóñez Plata, GISEL Research group.

Subject: Diagnosis of voltage sag events captured power distribution networks.

Date: August 15 to October 15, 2008.

 

Conference Publications during PhD studies

 

2011


 

 

V. Barrera, A. Pavas, J. Meléndez. “Power quality assessment of the Bogotá distribution network focused on voltage sags analysis”, International Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe 2011 (ISGT) , IEEE PES, Manchester-England, paper number 159, 6-9 December 2011.

 

V. Barrera, J. Meléndez, S. Herraiz, A. Ferreira, A. Muñoz. “Analysis of the influence of weather factors on outages in Spanish distribution networks”, International Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe 2011 (ISGT), IEEE PES, Manchester-England, paper number 269, 6-9 December 2011.

 

V. Barrera, J. Meléndez, S. Herraiz. “Feature analysis for voltage disturbances resulting from external causes”, 21st International Conference on Electricity Distribution (CIRED), Frankfurt-Germany, paper number 1151, 5-7 June 2011.

 

2010


 

V. Barrera, I. Yu-Hua Gu, M. H.J Bollen, J. Meléndez, J. Meléndez, “Feature Characterization of Power Quality Events According to Their Underlying Causes”, 14th IEEE International Conference on Harmonics and Quality of Power (ICHQP), September 26-29, 2010, Bergamo, Italy.

 

V. Barrera, S. Kulkarni, S. Santoso, J. Meléndez, “SVM-Based Classification Methodology for Overhead Distribution Fault Events”, 14th IEEE International Conference on Harmonics and Quality of Power (ICHQP), September 26-29, 2010, Bergamo, Italy.

 

V. Barrera, S. Kulkarni, S. Santoso, J. Meléndez, “Feature Analysis and Classification Methodology for Overhead Distribution Fault Events”, IEEE Power & Energy Society, 2010 General Meeting, July 25-29, 2010, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. (Submission ID 2010GM0586).

 

J. Jagua, V. Barrera, G. Carrillo, J. Melendez;Waveform Segmentation Based On Tensor Analysis”, IEEE Andean Conference, Exhibition and Industry Forum (IEEE ANDESCON), September 15-17, 2010, Colombia.

 

S. Ortiz L.; H.Torres S.; V. Barrera; C. Duarte; G. Ordoñez; S. Herraiz; "Analysis of Voltage Events Segmentation Using Kalman Filter and Wavelet Transform", IEEE Andean Conference, Exhibition and Industry Forum (IEEE ANDESCON), September 15-17, 2010, Colombia.

 

2009


 

V. Barrera, J. Meléndez, S. Herraiz, J. Sánchez, “A New Sag Source Relative Location Algorithm Based On The Sequence Current Magnitude”, Simposio Internacional sobre la Calidad de la Energía Eléctrica – SICEL’09, Bogotá, Colombia, August 4-6, 2009.

 

S. Ortiz, A. Torres, V. Barrera, C. Duarte, G. Ordoñez, S. Herraiz, “Estrategias para la Segmentación de Huecos de Tensión con Componentes de Alta Frecuencia", Simposio Internacional sobre la Calidad de la Energía Eléctrica – SICEL’09, Bogotá, Colombia, August 4-6, 2009.

 

J. Blanco S., J. Jagua G., L. Jaimes R., V. Barrera, J. Meléndez F, “Metodología para el Diagnóstico de la Causa de Huecos de Tensión” , Simposio Internacional sobre la Calidad de la Energía Eléctrica – SICEL’09, Bogotá, Colombia, August 4-6, 2009.

 

B. López, V. Barrera, J. Meléndez, C. Pous, J. Brunet, J. Sanz, “Subgroup Discovery for Weight Learning in Breast Cancer Diagnosis”, Conferencia de la Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial – CAEPIA’09, Sevilla, Spain, Noviembre 9-13, 2009.

 

 

B. López, V. Barrera, J. Meléndez, C. Pous, J. Brunet, J. Sanz, “Subgroup discovery for Feature Selection in Breast Cancer Diagnosis”, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine – AIME’09, Verona, Italy 18-22, 2009.

 

2008


 

V. Barrera, J. Meléndez, S. Herraiz, J. Sánchez, “Unusual Voltage Sag Event Detection in Power Systems”, 2008 IEEE/PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition: Latin America, Bogota, Colombia, August 13th to 15th, 2008.

 

V. Barrera, J. Meléndez, S. Herraiz, “A Survey on Voltage Sag Events in Power Systems”, IEEE/PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition: Latin America, Bogota, Colombia, August 13th to 15th, 2008.

 

J. Meléndez, X. Berjaga, S. Herraiz, V. Barrera, J. Sánchez and M. Castro, “Classification of sags according to their origin based on the waveform similarity”, IEEE/PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition: Latin America, Bogota, Colombia - August 13th to 15th, 2008.

 

V. Barrera, X. Berjaga, J. Melendez, S. Herraiz, J. Sánchez and M. Castro, “Two New Methods for Voltage Sag Source Location”, ICHQP 2008 - 13th International Conference on Harmonics & Quality of Power, 28th September – 1st October, Australia.

 

V. Barrera, B. López, J. Meléndez, J. Sánchez, “Voltage Sag Source Location From Extracted Rules Using Subgroup Discovery”, “Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications”, Edited by Teresa Alsinet, Josep Puyol-Gruart, Carme Torras, Vol. 128, p.p.: 225-235, ISBN 978-1-58603-925-7, October 2008.

 

MS Publications

 

2007


 

Barrera, Víctor; Carrillo, Gilberto, Ordoñez, Gabriel "Hybrid system to improvement of the power supply continuity indexes" PPT Slides. CIRED – Leading Forum where the Electricity Distribution Community Meets”, Vienna, Austria, May 21-24, 2007.

 

Flórez, Félix; Billar, Ronald; Barrera Víctor; Ordóñez, Gabriel. “Herramienta Informática ATP-Matlab para Estudios de Calidad en Sistemas de Energía Eléctrica”. Congreso de Computación Aplicada CAIP 2007, Mayo de 2007, Uruguay.

 

2006


 

V. Barrera; G. Carrillo, G. Ordóñez, "Sistemas de distribución: localización de fallas mediante la aplicación de inteligencia artificial" (Master thesis). Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia. 2006.

 

V. Barrera, G. Carrillo, J. Mora, "Una solución económica a los problemas de calidad del servicio prestado". Revista Ingeniería y Ciencia”. ISSN 1794-9165, Vol. 2, No 4, p.p: 95-123, Septiembre, 2006.

 

V. Barrera, G. Carrillo, J. Mora, "Una aplicación de la técnica LAMDA a los índices de continuidad del suministro de energía eléctrica". Revista UIS Ingenierías. Vol. 5, No. 1, ISSN 1657-4583, Colombia, 2006.

 

V. Barrera, C. Jaramillo, G. Ordóñez, "Diseño e implementación de un sistema para la recolección de medidas eléctricas remotas utilizando Java". ANDESCON 2006. Innovación tecnológica: Un reto para América Latina, 8-10 de Noviembre, Quito-Ecuador.

 

2005


 

V. Barrera, J. Cormane, J. Rodriguez, "Metodología para el mejoramiento de los índices de continuidad del suministro de energía eléctrica", III Simposio Internacional Calidad de la Energía Eléctrica (SICEL), Colombia (Bogotá D.C), 16-18 Noviembre de 2005..

 

V. Barrera, G. Carrillo, J. Mora, "Una aplicación de la técnica LAMDA a los índices de continuidad del suministro de energía eléctrica". III Simposio Internacional sobre Calidad de la Energía Eléctrica. SICEL IEEE. Bogota D.C- Colombia. Nov. 16-18 de 2005.

 

Degree Publications

 

2004


 

V. Barrera, J. Cormane, G. Ordóñez, "Predicción de corrientes armónicas en ventanas de carga residenciales mediante modelos neuronales artificiales". Revista UIS Ingenierías. Volumen 3, Numero 3, 2004. ISSN 1657-4583, Colombia, 2004.

 

2003


 

V. Barrera, J. Cormane, G. Ordóñez, "Predicción de corrientes armónicas en ventanas de carga residenciales mediante modelos neuronales artificiales" (Degree thesis). Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia. 2003.

 

Supervised thesis

2011


 

N. Ortiz, G. Ordóñez, V. Barrera, “Caracterización de perturbaciones eléctricas causadas por la operación de fusibles”, Degree thesis, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia, 2010 (Currently).

 

2010


 

S. Ortiz, A. Torres, C. Duarte, V. Barrera, “Estrategias para la segmentación de huecos de tensión con componentes de alta frecuencia”, Degree thesis, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia, 2010.

 

R. Velandia, F. Hernández, H. Vargas, V. Barrera, “Evaluación de algoritmos de extracción de reglas de decisión para el diagnóstico de huecos de tensión”, Degree thesis, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia, 2010.

 

R. Leal, J. Jacome, J. Petit, V. Barrera, “Causas de huecos de tensión: Análisis de propagación”, Degree thesis, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia, 2010.

 

2009


 

J. Blanco, J. Jagua, L. Jaimes, V. Barrera, “Metodología para el Diagnóstico de la Causa de Huecos de Tensión: Análisis de Fallas”, Degree thesis, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia, 2009.

 

2006


 

F. Flórez, R. Billar, V. Barrera, G. Ordóñez, "Caracterización de circuitos de distribución para estudios de calidad en sistemas de energía eléctrica", Degree thesis, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia. 2006.

 

C. Rojas, J. Gutierrez, V. Barrera, G. Ordóñez, "Localización de fallas: clasificación de huecos de tensión en sistemas de distribución utilizando la técnica LAMDA", Degree thesis, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia. 2006.