scholarly journals Automatic Fault Diagnostic System for Induction Motors under Transient Regime Optimized with Expert Systems

Electronics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordi Burriel-Valencia ◽  
Ruben Puche-Panadero ◽  
Javier Martinez-Roman ◽  
Angel Sapena-Bano ◽  
Manuel Pineda-Sanchez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Expert Systems ◽  
Induction Motors ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Diagnostic System ◽  
Transient Regime ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Diagnostic Systems ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Cage Induction Motor

Induction machines (IMs) power most modern industrial processes (induction motors) and generate an increasing portion of our electricity (doubly fed induction generators). A continuous monitoring of the machine’s condition can identify faults at an early stage, and it can avoid costly, unexpected shutdowns of production processes, with economic losses well beyond the cost of the machine itself. Machine current signature analysis (MCSA), has become a prominent technique for condition-based maintenance, because, in its basic approach, it is non-invasive, requires just a current sensor, and can process the current signal using a standard fast Fourier transform (FFT). Nevertheless, the industrial application of MCSA requires well-trained maintenance personnel, able to interpret the current spectra and to avoid false diagnostics that can appear due to electrical noise in harsh industrial environments. This task faces increasing difficulties, especially when dealing with machines that work under non-stationary conditions, such as wind generators under variable wind regime, or motors fed from variable speed drives. In these cases, the resulting spectra are no longer simple one-dimensional plots in the time domain; instead, they become two-dimensional images in the joint time-frequency domain, requiring highly specialized personnel to evaluate the machine condition. To alleviate these problems, supporting the maintenance staff in their decision process, and simplifying the correct use of fault diagnosis systems, expert systems based on neural networks have been proposed for automatic fault diagnosis. However, all these systems, up to the best knowledge of the authors, operate under steady-state conditions, and are not applicable in a transient regime. To solve this problem, this paper presents an automatic system for generating optimized expert diagnostic systems for fault detection when the machine works under transient conditions. The proposed method is first theoretically introduced, and then it is applied to the experimental diagnosis of broken bars in a commercial cage induction motor.

scholarly journals Smart-Sensors to Estimate Insulation Health in Induction Motors via Analysis of Stray Flux

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 1658 ◽  
Author(s):  
Israel Zamudio-Ramirez ◽  
Roque Alfredo Osornio-Rios ◽  
Miguel Trejo-Hernandez ◽  
Rene de Jesus Romero-Troncoso ◽  
Jose Alfonso Antonino-Daviu
Keyword(s):  
Induction Motors ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Smart Sensors ◽  
Discrete Wavelet ◽  
Electrical Machine ◽  
Smart Sensor ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
Winding Insulation

Induction motors (IMs) are essential components in industrial applications. These motors have to perform numerous tasks under a wide variety of conditions, which affects performance and reliability and gradually brings faults and efficiency losses over time. Nowadays, the industrial sector demands the necessary integration of smart-sensors to effectively diagnose faults in these kinds of motors before faults can occur. One of the most frequent causes of failure in IMs is the degradation of turn insulation in windings. If this anomaly is present, an electric motor can keep working with apparent normality, but factors such as the efficiency of energy consumption and mechanical reliability may be reduced considerably. Furthermore, if not detected at an early stage, this degradation could lead to the breakdown of the insulation system, which could in turn cause catastrophic and irreversible failure to the electrical machine. This paper proposes a novel methodology and its application in a smart-sensor to detect and estimate the healthiness of the winding insulation in IMs. This methodology relies on the analysis of the external magnetic field captured by a coil sensor by applying suitable time-frequency decomposition (TFD) tools. The discrete wavelet transform (DWT) is used to decompose the signal into different approximation and detail coefficients as a pre-processing stage to isolate the studied fault. Then, due to the importance of diagnosing stator winding insulation faults during motor operation at an early stage, this proposal introduces an indicator based on wavelet entropy (WE), a single parameter capable of performing an efficient diagnosis. A smart-sensor is able to estimate winding insulation degradation in IMs using two inexpensive, reliable, and noninvasive primary sensors: a coil sensor and an E-type thermocouple sensor. The utility of these sensors is demonstrated through the results obtained from analyzing six similar IMs with differently induced severity faults.

Preventive Maintenance for Roller and Journal Bearings of Induction Motor Based on the Diagnostic Signature Analysis

1986 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Koizumi ◽  
M. Kiso ◽  
R. Taniguchi
Keyword(s):  
Preventive Maintenance ◽  
Diagnostic Procedure ◽  
Failure Modes ◽  
Induction Motors ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Diagnostic System ◽  
Journal Bearings ◽  
Diagnostic Signature ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Practical Field

This paper is concerned with the preventive maintenance of roller and journal bearings installed in induction motors. Almost all kinds of failure modes happening on both roller and journal bearings have been reproduced and classified using time and frequency domain data analysis. Diagnostic procedure also has been derived using these analyzed results and statistical method. Finally, an actual diagnostic system for the early stage detection of defected roller bearings has been developed for practical field use.

scholarly journals A New Hybrid Diagnosis of Bearing Faults Based on Time-Frequency Images and Sparse Representation

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 907-918
Author(s):  
Ilhan Aydin ◽  
Seyfullah Kaner
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Induction Motors ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Bearing Faults ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Histograms Of Oriented Gradients ◽  
Diagnosis Method ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Learning Machine

Induction motors are an essential component of many applications in industry due to their robust and simple construction. Since bearing faults are the most occurred fault type in the induction motors, it is important to implement the fault detection procedure at an early stage to prevent a sudden interruption of industrial systems. In recent years, deep learning-based techniques have become important tools for converting raw data into images and for producing high-quality images. However, deep learning-based techniques are still difficult to apply in real-time because the techniques require large training data, which slows down the learning process. In the present study, we propose a novel bearing faults diagnosis method at different operating speeds and load conditions. We obtain the time-frequency (TF) representation by applying continuous wavelet analysis to the raw vibration signals. The results of TF representation is recorded as an image. We apply co-occurrence Histograms of Oriented Gradients (coHOG) to the image to obtain features and classify the features with extreme learning machine with a sparse classifier (ELMSRC) to diagnose faults. We obtained better results in terms of time and performance compared with the proposed method of other classification and deep learning techniques.

scholarly journals Early Fault Diagnosis for Planetary Gearbox Based Wavelet Packet Energy and Modulation Signal Bispectrum Analysis

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 2908 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junchao Guo ◽  
Zhanqun Shi ◽  
Haiyang Li ◽  
Dong Zhen ◽  
Fengshou Gu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Wavelet Packet ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Rotating Machinery ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Mechanical Transmission ◽  
Planetary Gearbox ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Reconstructed Signal ◽  
Modulation Signal

The planetary gearbox is at the heart of most rotating machinery. The premature failure and subsequent downtime of a planetary gearbox not only seriously affects the reliability and safety of the entire rotating machinery but also results in severe accidents and economic losses in industrial applications. It is an important and challenging task to accurately detect failures in a planetary gearbox at an early stage to ensure the safety and reliability of the mechanical transmission system. In this paper, a novel method based on wavelet packet energy (WPE) and modulation signal bispectrum (MSB) analysis is proposed for planetary gearbox early fault diagnostics. First, the vibration signal is decomposed into different time-frequency subspaces using wavelet packet decomposition (WPD). The WPE is calculated in each time-frequency subspace. Secondly, the relatively high energy vectors are selected from a WPE matrix to obtain a reconstructed signal. The reconstructed signal is then subjected to MSB analysis to obtain the fault characteristic frequency for fault diagnosis of the planetary gearbox. The validity of the proposed method is carried out through analyzing the vibration signals of the test planetary gearbox in two fault cases. One fault is a chipped sun gear tooth and the other is an inner-race fault in the planet gear bearing. The results show that the proposed method is feasible and effective for early fault diagnosis in planetary gearboxes.

scholarly journals BASIC ALGORITHM FOR INDUCTION MOTORS ROTOR FAULTS PRE-DETERMINATION

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 254
Author(s):  
Aleksei Petrov ◽  
Anton Rassolkin ◽  
Toomas Vaimann ◽  
Anouar Belahcen ◽  
Ants Kallaste ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Induction Motors ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Diagnostic Techniques ◽  
Electrical Machine ◽  
Basic Algorithm ◽  
Rotor Faults ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
Squirrel Cage ◽  
Squirrel Cage Induction Motor ◽  
Cage Induction Motor

Due to importance of squirrel cage induction motor in today’s industry, the fault detection on that type of motors has become a highly developed area of interest for researchers. The electrical machine is designed for stable operations with minimum noise and vibrations under the normal conditions. When the fault emerges, some additional distortions appear. The necessity to detect the fault in an early stage, to prevent further damage of the equipment due to fault propagation, is one of the most important features of any condition monitoring or diagnostic techniques for electrical machines nowadays. In this paper possible induction motors faults classified and basic algorithm for rotor faults pre-determination is presented.

Analysis of Time, Frequency and Wavelet Based Features of Vibration and Current Signals for Fault Diagnosis of Induction Motors Using SVM

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Purushottam Gangsar ◽  
Rajiv Tiwari
Keyword(s):  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Frequency Domain ◽  
Induction Motors ◽  
Classification Performance ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Mechanical Faults ◽  
Severity Levels ◽  
Electrical Faults

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the time, frequency and time-frequency domain based features of the vibration and current signals for identifying various faults in induction motors (IMs) using support vector machine (SVM). Four mechanical faults (bearing fault, unbalanced rotor, bowed rotor and misaligned rotor), and three electrical faults (broken rotor bars, stator winding fault with two severity levels and phase unbalance with two severity levels) are considered in the present study. The proposed fault diagnosis consists of three steps. In the first step, the vibration in three orthogonal directions and the current in three phases are acquired from the healthy and faulty motors using a machine fault simulator (MFS). In second step, useful statistical features are extracted from the time, frequency and time-frequency domain (continuous wavelet transform (CWT)) of the signal. For the effective fault diagnosis, SVM parameters are optimally selected based on the grid-search method along with 5-fold cross-validation, and the effective fault features are selected based on the wrapper model. Finally, the fault diagnosis of IM is performed using optimal SVM parameters and effective features as input to the SVM. The classification performance of all methodologies developed in three domains is compared for various operating conditions of IMs. The test results showed that the developed methodology could isolate ten IM fault conditions successfully based on features from all three domains at all IM operating conditions; however, time-frequency features give the best results.

scholarly journals Study on Fault Diagnosis of Rolling Bearing Based on Time-Frequency Generalized Dimension

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Yuan ◽  
Xing Zhao ◽  
Jiyou Fei ◽  
Yulong Zhao ◽  
Jiahui Wang
Keyword(s):  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Frequency Domain ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Fractal Theory ◽  
Rolling Bearing ◽  
Mechanical Equipment ◽  
Rolling Bearings ◽  
Common Component ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Multifractal Method

The condition monitoring technology and fault diagnosis technology of mechanical equipment played an important role in the modern engineering. Rolling bearing is the most common component of mechanical equipment which sustains and transfers the load. Therefore, fault diagnosis of rolling bearings has great significance. Fractal theory provides an effective method to describe the complexity and irregularity of the vibration signals of rolling bearings. In this paper a novel multifractal fault diagnosis approach based on time-frequency domain signals was proposed. The method and numerical algorithm of Multi-fractal analysis in time-frequency domain were provided. According to grid typeJand order parameterqin algorithm, the value range ofJand the cut-off condition ofqwere optimized based on the effect on the dimension calculation. Simulation experiments demonstrated that the effective signal identification could be complete by multifractal method in time-frequency domain, which is related to the factors such as signal energy and distribution. And the further fault diagnosis experiments of bearings showed that the multifractal method in time-frequency domain can complete the fault diagnosis, such as the fault judgment and fault types. And the fault detection can be done in the early stage of fault. Therefore, the multifractal method in time-frequency domain used in fault diagnosis of bearing is a practicable method.

Recent Techniques to Identify the Stator Fault Diagnosis in Three Phase Induction Motor

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 106-120
Author(s):  
K. Vinoth Kumar ◽  
S. Suresh Kumar ◽  
A. Immanuel Selvakumar ◽  
R. Saravana Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Life Span ◽  
Induction Motors ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Decomposition Technique ◽  
Maintenance Schedule ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Symmetrical Component ◽  
Stator Fault ◽  
Financial Losses

Induction motors have gained its popularity as a suitable industrial workhorse, due to its ruggedness and reliability. With time, these workhorses are susceptible to faults, some are incipient and some are major. Such fault can be catastrophic, if unattended and may develop serious problems that may lead to shutdown to the machine causing production and financial losses. To avoid such breakdown, an early stage prognosis can help in preparing the maintenance schedule, which will lead to an improve life span. Scientist and engineers worked with different scheme to diagnose the machine faults. The authors diagnose the turn-to-turn faults condition of the stator through symmetrical component analysis. The results of the analysis are also verified through Power Decomposition Technique (PDT) in Matlab /SIMULINK. The results are compatible with the published results for known faults.

scholarly journals Fault Diagnosis of Induction Machines in Transient Regime Using Current Sensors with an Optimized Slepian Window

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordi Burriel-Valencia ◽  
Ruben Puche-Panadero ◽  
Javier Martinez-Roman ◽  
Angel Sapena-Baño ◽  
Manuel Pineda-Sanchez
Keyword(s):  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Induction Machines ◽  
Transient Regime ◽  
Sequence Length ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Stator Current ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Analysis Window ◽  
Computational Resources ◽  
Short Time

The aim of this paper is to introduce a new methodology for the fault diagnosis of induction machines working in transient regime, when time-frequency analysis tools are used. The proposed method relies on the use of the optimized Slepian window for performing the short time Fourier transform (STFT) of the stator current signal. It is shown that for a given sequence length of finite duration the Slepian window has the maximum concentration of energy, greater than can be reached with a gated Gaussian window, which is usually used as analysis window. In this paper the use and optimization of the Slepian window for fault diagnosis of induction machines is theoretically introduced and experimentally validated through the test of a 3.15 MW induction motor with broken bars during the start-up transient. The theoretical analysis and the experimental results show that the use of the Slepian window can highlight the fault components in the current's spectrogram with a significant reduction of the required computational resources.

scholarly journals Fault Diagnosis of Induction Machines in Transient Regime Using Current Sensors with an Optimized Slepian Window

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordi Burriel-Valencia ◽  
Ruben Puche-Panadero ◽  
Javier Martinez-Roman ◽  
Angel Sapena-Bañó ◽  
Manuel Pineda-Sanchez
Keyword(s):  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Induction Machines ◽  
Transient Regime ◽  
Sequence Length ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Stator Current ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Analysis Window ◽  
Computational Resources ◽  
Short Time

The aim of this paper is to introduce a new methodology for the fault diagnosis of induction machines working in transient regime, when time-frequency analysis tools are used. The proposed method relies on the use of the optimized Slepian window for performing the short time Fourier transform (STFT) of the stator current signal. It is shown that for a given sequence length of finite duration the Slepian window has the maximum concentration of energy, greater than can be reached with a gated Gaussian window, which is usually used as analysis window. In this paper the use and optimization of the Slepian window for fault diagnosis of induction machines is theoretically introduced and experimentally validated through the test of a 3.15 MW induction motor with broken bars during the start-up transient. The theoretical analysis and the experimental results show that the use of the Slepian window can highlight the fault components in the current's spectrogram with a significant reduction of the required computational resources.

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