Early fault detection and diagnosis of grid-connected photovoltaic systems (GCPS) is imperative to improve their performance and reliability. Low-cost edge devices have emerged as innovative solutions for real-time monitoring, reducing latency, and improving response times. In this work, a lightweight Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is designed and fine-tuned using Energy Valley Optimizer (EVO) for fault diagnosis. The CNN input consists of two-dimensional scalograms generated using Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT). The proposed diagnosis technique demonstrated superior performance compared to benchmark architectures, namely MobileNet, NASNetMobile, and InceptionV3, achieving higher test accuracies and lower losses on binary and multi-fault classification tasks on balanced, unbalanced, and noisy datasets. Further, a quantitative comparison is conducted with similar recent studies. The obtained results indicate good performance and high reliability of the proposed fault diagnosis method.

Applied Automation and Industrial Diagnostics Laboratory LAADI University of Djelfa Djelfa Algeria

Center for Information Analytical and Technical Support of Nuclear Power Facilities Monitoring of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Akademika Palladina Avenue 34 A Kyiv Ukraine

Department of Electrical Engineering College of Engineering Taif University 21944 Taif Saudi Arabia

Department of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Science and Technology University of Djelfa Djelfa Algeria

Department of Electrical Engineering Graphic Era Dehradun 248002 India

Department of Theoretical Electrical Engineering and Diagnostics of Electrical Equipment Institute of Electrodynamics National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Peremogy 56 Kyiv 57 03680 Ukraine

Graphic Era Hill University Dehradun 248002 India

Hourani Center for Applied Scientific Research Al Ahliyya Amman University Amman Jordan

Telecommunications and Smart Systems Laboratory University of Djelfa PO Box 3117 17000 Djelfa Algeria

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