@Article{cmc.2026.085939,
AUTHOR = {Zihao Jia, Jingrui Zhang},
TITLE = {An Improved Res-Swin Fusion Network for Partial Discharge Pattern Recognition in Power Cables},
JOURNAL = {Computers, Materials \& Continua},
VOLUME = {},
YEAR = {},
NUMBER = {},
PAGES = {{pages}},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/cmc/online/detail/28239},
ISSN = {1546-2226},
ABSTRACT = {Accurate partial discharge (PD) pattern recognition is essential for assessing power cable insulation, yet it remains challenging due to complex discharge features and limited data availability in practical engineering. To address these issues, this paper first establishes a high-voltage experimental platform with four carefully designed physical defect models to construct a highly authentic Phase-Resolved Partial Discharge (PRPD) dataset. Subsequently, an improved Res-Swin fusion framework is proposed. It integrates a ResNet branch to decouple fine-grained local discharge textures and a Swin Transformer branch to model global phase-amplitude topologies. To alleviate overfitting in data-scarce scenarios, a multi-stage parameter freezing strategy is implemented. Furthermore, an Adaptive Chaotic Lévy-flight Sand Cat Swarm Optimization (ACLSCSO) algorithm is introduced to globally optimize branch-wise initial learning rates for the heterogeneous network. Extensive cross-validation experiments demonstrate that the proposed method achieves an average accuracy of 97.54%. The freezing strategy significantly reduces training time by 11.5%, while the synergistic optimization resolves the confusion between morphologically similar patterns, reducing the misclassification rate of “No Partial Discharge” as “Void Discharge” from 6.2% to 2.1%. Finally, attention visualizations show that the network’s focal regions are broadly consistent with characteristic PRPD regions, providing qualitative interpretability evidence for insulation condition assessment.},
DOI = {10.32604/cmc.2026.085939}
}