Robustness of Deep Learning Models for PV Power Forecasting under NWP Forecast Errors: A Spatiotemporal and Physically Interpretable Analysis· 光伏功率预测中深度学习模型的鲁棒性分析
Engineering use of AI forecasting models requires not only high nominal accuracy but also predictable behavior under uncertain inputs. In photovoltaic (PV) forecasting, this requirement is especially challenging because numerical weather prediction (NWP) errors are temporally correlated, state dependent, and physically coupled across variables. Existing evaluations, however, often rely on perfect forecast assumptions or simplistic perturbations that do not reflect these characteristics. This study presents a physically constrained robustness evaluation framework based on simulation, using virtual PV power as a controlled response variable to isolate the propagation of input uncertainty from confounders at the plant level. Six representative machine learning and deep sequence models, including PatchTST, GRU, N-HITS, and LightGBM, are evaluated under dynamic NWP perturbations with heteroscedasticity modulated by clear-sky conditions and Erbs reconstruction that preserves radiation consistency. The results show that sequence models provide stronger noise filtering and temporal resilience than a strong tabular baseline under medium to high disturbance regimes. SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) and Integrated Gradients (IG) further support a feature reallocation tendency at the case level, in which predictive reliance shifts from corrupted future forecasts toward more stable historical observations and deterministic physical priors. A Pareto analysis of accuracy under clean conditions, robustness, and computational latency then translates these findings into engineering implications for robustness assessment and model selection under forecast uncertainty.
分析深度学习模型在光伏功率预测中的鲁棒性
- 核心方法
- 构建基于仿真的物理约束鲁棒性评估框架,使用虚拟光伏功率作为控制变量,评估六种模型在动态NWP扰动下的表现
- 适合谁读
- 研究者、工程师
- 要解决的问题
- 评估深度学习模型在光伏功率预测中处理数值天气预测误差的能力
- 关键实验
- 对PatchTST、GRU、N-HITS、LightGBM等六种模型进行动态NWP扰动实验,扰动程度由晴空条件和Erbs重建调节
- 主要贡献
- 提出了一种新的鲁棒性评估方法,显示出序列模型相比传统模型在中高扰动下的优势,并使用SHAP和IG分析特征重要性转移
- 意义与局限
- 为工程应用提供了一种评估模型鲁棒性和选择模型的方法,帮助提高光伏功率预测的可靠性和效率,但限于特定的天气和地理条件