Approche interactive d'extraction de variables interprétables et explicatives pour la gestion des contraintes du réseau électrique français
Abstract
Electrical power networks are heavily monitored systems, requiring operators to perform
intricate information synthesis before understanding the underlying network state. Our study
aims at helping this synthesis step by automatically creating features from sensor data. We
propose a feature extraction approach using a grammar-guided evolution, which outputs interpretable
and physically consistent features. Operations restrictions on physical units are introduced
in the learning process through interactively-built context-free grammars. They ensure
coherence with physical laws, dimensional-consistency and also introduce technical expertise
in the created features. We compare our approach to other state-of-the-art feature extraction
methods on a real dataset taken from the French electrical network sensors and evaluate interpretability
on human and functional levels.