The application of artificial intelligence to power systems has result
ed in an overall improvement of solutions in many generators based imp
lementations. This paper presents a new approach to the prediction (de
tection) of out-of-step synchronous, on artificial neural networks (AN
Ns). The paper describes the ANN architecture adopted as well as the s
election of input features for training the ANN. A feedforward model o
f the neural network based on the stochastic back-propagation training
algorithm has been used. The capabilities of the developed algorithm
for the prediction of the out-of-step condition have been tested throu
gh computer simulation for a typical case study. The results of using
the proposed algorithm reveal a high classification performance.