Title
A Smoothing Technique For The Multifractal Analysis Of A Medium Voltage Feeders Electric Current
Abstract
The current paper presents a data-driven detrending technique allowing to smooth complex sinusoidal trends from a real-world electric load time series before applying the Detrended Multifractal Fluctuation Analysis (MFDFA). The algorithm we call Smoothed Sort and Cut Fourier Detrending (SSC-FD) is based on a suitable smoothing of high power periodicities operating directly in the Fourier spectrum through a polynomial fitting technique of the DFT. The main aim consists of disambiguating the characteristic slow varying periodicities, that can impair the MFDFA analysis, from the residual signal in order to study its correlation properties. The algorithm performances are evaluated on a simple benchmark test consisting of a persistent series where the Hurst exponent is known, with superimposed ten sinusoidal harmonics. Moreover, the behavior of the algorithm parameters is assessed computing the MFDFA on the well-known sunspot data, whose correlation characteristics are reported in literature. In both cases, the SSC-FD method eliminates the apparent crossover induced by the synthetic and natural periodicities. Results are compared with some existing detrending methods within the MFDFA paradigm. Finally, a study of the multifractal characteristics of the electric load time series detrendended by the SSC-FD algorithm is provided, showing a strong persistent behavior and an appreciable amplitude of the multifractal spectrum that allows to conclude that the series at hand has multifractal characteristics.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1142/S021812741750211X
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIFURCATION AND CHAOS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Detrended multifractal fluctuation analysis, electric load, smoothed Fourier detrending
Residual,Polynomial,Mathematical analysis,Hurst exponent,Voltage,Fourier transform,Harmonics,Smoothing,Multifractal system,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
27
14
0218-1274
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
4
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Enrico De Santis1505.92
Alireza Sadeghian226925.59
Antonello Rizzi336341.68