To address the challenges in precise fault identification and diagnostic reliability enhancement for photovoltaic (PV) arrays
this study develops an integrated fault diagnosis framework incorporating Adaptive Sparrow Search Algorithm (ASFSSA)-optimized Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD) with a hybrid Convolutional Neural Network-Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (CNN-BiLSTM) architecture. The framework comprises three principal phases: Initially
ASFSSA-driven parameter optimization is implemented for VMD's critical parameters (modal components and penalty coefficient )
enhancing computational efficiency and decomposition precision. Subsequently
the optimized VMD algorithm performs multiscale decomposition of PV array fault signals to selectively extract discriminative feature components. Ultimately
these processed features are fed into the CNN-BiLSTM network for hierarchical feature abstraction and multi-class fault pattern recognition. Comprehensive experimental evaluations demonstrate the framework's superior performance
achieving 98.97% mean diagnostic accuracy on benchmark datasets and 99.30% accuracy on operational PV plant fault data
surpassing benchmark models in both controlled and real-world scenarios. These quantitative outcomes substantiate the technical viability and diagnostic effectiveness of the proposed intelligent fault diagnosis system.
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