Matlab application of Kohonen Self-Organizing Map to classify consumers' load profiles

Abstract

This paper proposes a Matlab object oriented application based on Kohonen Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) able to classify consumers' daily load profile. Firstly, the characteristics of Kohonen self-organizing maps are briefly described in order to underline the advantages and disadvantages of these types of neural networks in classifications approaches. In the second part, data used for classification of load daily profiles is processed using statistical methods and Matlab. The result of these computations is a data base composed of daily load profiles used for SOM training. In the third part, the proposed software is tested on several scenarios in order to classify different consumers' load profiles. © 2014 Published by Elsevier B.V.