Abstract:To address the difficulty of fine-grained switchgear insulation condition discrimination in an expanded parameter space, the support provided by electric-field measurement features for distinguishing insulation conditions was examined. A total of 10000 simulation samples covering five equivalent insulation conditions were constructed. Twenty-six traceable electric-field features, a fixed training/validation/test split and a random forest model were used, together with correlation analysis, confusion matrices, permutation importance and repeated stratified-sampling experiments. The 26-feature model achieved Macro-F1 values of 0.3379 on the test set and 0.3479 on the validation set. Ten repeated training experiments using 2000 samples drawn by stratified sampling from the training set yielded Macro-F1 values of 0.2820±0.0056 and 0.2915±0.0110 on the test and validation sets, respectively. The main confusions involved surface contamination versus internal void and floating particles versus the normal condition. Multidimensional electric-field statistics provide some information for distinguishing insulation conditions, but substantial feature overlap remains in the expanded parameter space; these results should not be interpreted as high-level field diagnostic capability.