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Record W4407307115 · doi:10.3390/machines13020125

Power Transformer Prognostics and Health Management Using Machine Learning: A Review and Future Directions

2025· review· en· W4407307115 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueMachines · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicPower Transformer Diagnostics and Insulation
Canadian institutionsHydro-Québec
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPrognosticsTransformerReliability engineeringComputer scienceEngineeringMachine learningElectrical engineeringVoltage

Abstract

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Power transformers (PTs) play a vital role in the electrical power system. Assessing their health to predict their remaining useful life is essential to optimise maintenance. Scheduling the right maintenance for the right equipment at the right time is the ultimate goal of any power system utility. Optimal maintenance has a number of benefits: human and social, by limiting sudden service interruptions, and economic, due to the direct and indirect costs of unscheduled downtime. PT now produces large amounts of easily accessible data due to the increasing use of IoT, sensors, and connectivity between physical assets. As a result, power transformer prognostics and health management (PT-PHM) methods are increasingly moving towards artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, with several hundreds of scientific papers published on the topic of PT-PHM using AI techniques. On the other hand, the world of AI is undergoing a new evolution towards a third generation of AI models: large-scale foundation models. What is the current state of research in PT-PHM? What are the trends and challenges in AI and where do we need to go for power transformer prognostics and health management? This paper provides a comprehensive review of the state of the art in PT-PHM by analysing more than 200 papers, mostly published in scientific journals. Some elements to guide PT-PHM research are given at the end of the document.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.972
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.301
Teacher spread0.282 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it