scholarly journals Spectral Analysis of Electricity Demand Using Hilbert–Huang Transform

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 2912
Author(s):  
Joaquin Luque ◽  
Davide Anguita ◽  
Francisco Pérez ◽  
Robert Denda

The large amount of sensors in modern electrical networks poses a serious challenge in the data processing side. For many years, spectral analysis has been one of the most used approaches to extract physically meaningful information from a sea of data. Fourier Transform (FT) and Wavelet Transform (WT) are by far the most employed tools in this analysis. In this paper we explore the alternative use of Hilbert–Huang Transform (HHT) for electricity demand spectral representation. A sequence of hourly consumptions, spanning 40 months of electrical demand in Spain, has been used as dataset. First, by Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD), the sequence has been time-represented as an ensemble of 13 Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs). Later on, by applying Hilbert Transform (HT) to every IMF, an HHT spectrum has been obtained. Results show smoother spectra with more defined shapes and an excellent frequency resolution. EMD also fosters a deeper analysis of abnormal electricity demand at different timescales. Additionally, EMD permits information compression, which becomes very significant for lossless sequence representation. A 35% reduction has been obtained for the electricity demand sequence. On the negative side, HHT demands more computer resources than conventional spectral analysis techniques.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Arrufat-Pié ◽  
Mario Estévez-Báez ◽  
José Mario Estévez-Carreras ◽  
Calixto Machado Curbelo ◽  
Gerry Leisman ◽  
...  

AbstractConsidering the properties of the empirical mode decomposition to extract from a signal its natural oscillatory components known as intrinsic mode functions (IMFs), the spectral analysis of these IMFs could provide a novel alternative for the quantitative EEG analysis without a priori establish more or less arbitrary band limits. This approach has begun to be used in the last years for studies of EEG records of patients included in database repositories or including a low number of individuals or of limited EEG leads, but a detailed study in healthy humans has not yet been reported. Therefore, in this study the aims were to explore and describe the main spectral indices of the IMFs of the EEG in healthy humans using a method based on the FFT and another on the Hilbert-Huang transform (HHT). The EEG of 34 healthy volunteers was recorded and decomposed using a recently developed multivariate empirical mode decomposition algorithm. Extracted IMFs were submitted to spectral analysis with, and the results were compared with an ANOVA test. The first six decomposed IMFs from the EEG showed frequency values in the range of the classical bands of the EEG (1.5 to 56 Hz). Both methods showed in general similar results for mean weighted frequencies and estimations of power spectral density, although the HHT is recommended because of its better frequency resolution. It was shown the presence of the mode-mixing problem producing a slight overlapping of spectral frequencies mainly between the IMF3 and IMF4 modes.


2014 ◽  
Vol 08 (01) ◽  
pp. 1450002 ◽  
Author(s):  
ABDOLLAH BAGHERI ◽  
AMIR A. FATEMI ◽  
GHOLAMREZA GHODRATI AMIRI

One of the most important problems in the design of earthquake resistance structures at sites with no strong ground motion data is the generation and simulation of earthquake records. In this paper, an effective method based on Hilbert–Huang transform for the simulation of earthquake time histories is presented. The Hilbert–Huang transform consists of the empirical mode decomposition and Hilbert spectral analysis. Earthquake time histories decompose via empirical mode decomposition to obtain the intrinsic mode functions of earthquake time history. Any of intrinsic mode functions is simulated based on the proposed method for simulation. The ground frequency function of the presented model is estimated using Hilbert spectral analysis for the simulation of earthquake accelerograms. The proposed method has been applied to three earthquake records to demonstrate the efficiency and reliability of the approach. The obtained results of simulating method by comparison between pseudo-acceleration and pseudo-velocity response spectra of actual and the average of simulated time histories for these three earthquakes reveal that the simulated earthquake time histories well preserve the significant properties and the nonstationary characteristics of the actual earthquake records. The results indicated that there is a good accord between the response spectra of simulated and genuine time histories.


2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuxin Sun ◽  
Chungang Zhuang ◽  
Zhenhua Xiong

Due to low frequency resolution for closely spaced spectral components, i.e., the instantaneous frequencies (IFs) lie within an octave or even have intersections, the Hilbert–Huang transform (HHT) fails to separate such signals and consequently generates inaccurate time–frequency distribution (TFD). In this paper, a transform operator pair assisted HHT is proposed to improve the capability of the HHT to separate signals, especially those with IF intersections. The two operators of a pair are constructed to remove the chosen component that is clearly observed in the TFD of the signal, and then recover it from intrinsic mode functions (IMFs). With this approach, the components can be clearly separated and the intersections can also be identified in the TFD. Since a priori knowledge of the transform operator is usually not available in real applications, an iterative algorithm is presented to obtain a global transform operator. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated by analysis of numerical signals and a real signal collected from a cracked rotor–bearing system during the start-up process. Moreover, the proposed approach is shown to be superior to the normalized Hilbert transform (NHT) as well as the ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD).


Author(s):  
Mykola Sysyn ◽  
Olga Nabochenko ◽  
Franziska Kluge ◽  
Vitalii Kovalchuk ◽  
Andriy Pentsak

Track-side inertial measurements on common crossings are the object of the present study. The paper deals with the problem of measurement's interpretation for the estimation of the crossing structural health. The problem is manifested by the weak relation of measured acceleration components and impact lateral distribution to the lifecycle of common crossing rolling surface. The popular signal processing and machine learning methods are explored to solve the problem. The Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT) method is used to extract the time-frequency features of acceleration components. The method is based on Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD) that is advantageous to the conventional spectral analysis methods with higher frequency resolution and managing nonstationary nonlinear signals. Linear regression and Gaussian Process Regression are used to fuse the extracted features in one structural health (SH) indicator and study its relation to the crossing lifetime. The results have shown the significant relation of the derived with GPR indicator to the lifetime.


2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (9) ◽  
pp. 1982-1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoying Chen ◽  
Aiguo Song ◽  
Jianqing Li ◽  
Yimin Zhu ◽  
Xuejin Sun ◽  
...  

Abstract It is important to recognize the type of cloud for automatic observation by ground nephoscope. Although cloud shapes are protean, cloud textures are relatively stable and contain rich information. In this paper, a novel method is presented to extract the nephogram feature from the Hilbert spectrum of cloud images using bidimensional empirical mode decomposition (BEMD). Cloud images are first decomposed into several intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) of textural features through BEMD. The IMFs are converted from two- to one-dimensional format, and then the Hilbert–Huang transform is performed to obtain the Hilbert spectrum and the Hilbert marginal spectrum. It is shown that the Hilbert spectrum and the Hilbert marginal spectrum of different types of cloud textural images can be divided into three different frequency bands. A recognition rate of 87.5%–96.97% is achieved through random cloud image testing using this algorithm, indicating the efficiency of the proposed method for cloud nephogram.


2019 ◽  
Vol 277 ◽  
pp. 02021
Author(s):  
Fei Wang ◽  
Xiandong Kang ◽  
Ting Yan ◽  
Ying Liu

Hilbert-Huang transform (HHT) is proposed to process the seismic response recordings in an 8-story frame-shear wall base-isolated building. Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) method is first applied to identify the time variant characteristics and the data series can be decomposed into several components. Hilbert transform is well-behaved in identifying the frequency components. The first 5 intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) are decomposed with their different frequencies. The analytical function is reconstructed and compared with the original signal. They are extremely consistent in amplitude and phase. Based on the IMFs obtained, frequencies of the original signal are inferred at 5 Hz and 1.6 Hz. The higher frequency is regarded as the vibration excited by surface waves. 1.6 Hz is suggested as the dominant frequency of the building. Analysis indicates that HHT is accurate in extracting the dynamic characteristics of structural systems.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamil Szydło ◽  
Piotr Wolszczak ◽  
Rafał Longwic ◽  
Grzegorz Litak ◽  
Mieczysław Dziubiński ◽  
...  

Abstract Purpose The comfort of lift passengers has a significant effect on their general health condition as well as stress levels during travel. This study reports the results of vibration measurements taken during travel in a passenger lift. Methods Vibration signals were analyzed by the empirical mode decomposition method and the Hilbert transform. Results Selected modes from the Hilbert spectral analysis were compared with the resonance frequencies of human body organs (range 20–90 Hz) as well as with the resonance frequencies of lift components. Conclusion The use of Hilbert spectral analysis enables the isolation of individual signal components and the determination of the dominant frequency in the signal. This, in turn, allows for the isolation of raw vibration frequencies from the signal that are particularly significant for passenger comfort assessment (resonance frequencies of human body organs) and analysis of their occurrence.


2011 ◽  
Vol 03 (04) ◽  
pp. 509-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. FALTERMEIER ◽  
A. ZEILER ◽  
A. M. TOMÉ ◽  
A. BRAWANSKI ◽  
E. W. LANG

The analysis of nonlinear and nonstationary time series is still a challenge, as most classical time series analysis techniques are restricted to data that is, at least, stationary. Empirical mode decomposition (EMD) in combination with a Hilbert spectral transform, together called Hilbert-Huang transform (HHT), alleviates this problem in a purely data-driven manner. EMD adaptively and locally decomposes such time series into a sum of oscillatory modes, called Intrinsic mode functions (IMF) and a nonstationary component called residuum. In this contribution, we propose an EMD-based method, called Sliding empirical mode decomposition (SEMD), which, with a reasonable computational effort, extends the application area of EMD to a true on-line analysis of time series comprising a huge amount of data if recorded with a high sampling rate. Using nonlinear and nonstationary toy data, we demonstrate the good performance of the proposed algorithm. We also show that the new method extracts component signals that fulfill all criteria of an IMF very well and that it exhibits excellent reconstruction quality. The method itself will be refined further by a weighted version, called weighted sliding empirical mode decomposition (wSEMD), which reduces the computational effort even more while preserving the reconstruction quality.


2009 ◽  
Vol 01 (03) ◽  
pp. 425-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. BABJI ◽  
P. GORAI ◽  
A. K. TANGIRALA

Two of the most important sources of degradation of control loop performance are (i) valve stiction and (ii) tight controller tuning, both of which lead to oscillations in closed–loop outputs. A factor that distinguishes these two sources is the nonlinear signature of the valve stiction; a tightly tuned controller produces oscillations due to a linear source. Detection and isolation of nonlinear fault sources is essential to correctly determine the cause of poor loop performance of control loops. Despite a rich research activity in this area, there is hardly a method which can isolate the simultaneous effects of these two sources. Moreover, the traditional spectral analysis based on Fourier Transforms is largely restricted by the assumption of stationarity in the data to detect and quantify valve nonlinearities. In this work, Hilbert–Huang Transform (HHT) is used to (i) detect valve nonlinearities and (ii) isolate linear and nonlinear fault sources. The key characteristic of HHT is that it represents nonlinearities as intra-wave frequency modulations allowing it to distinguish it from linearities which do not exhibit such modulations. The advantages of HHT-based methods are that (i) nonlinearities translate to a unique signature (ii) nonstationarities in data can be handled in a natural way. It is observed that nonlinearity is captured by a Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMF) obtained from the Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) of the process output. The Hilbert–Huang spectrum of these IMFs exhibits intra-wave frequency modulation. The power spectrum of the IMFs shows the presence of harmonics which is used to characterize the valve stiction nonlinearity. Subsequent to detection, quantification is done using the power spectrum of the IMFs. The proposed method is sensitive enough to detect low levels of valve stiction nonlinearities. Results from simulation using one-parameter valve stiction model are presented in support of the proposed methodology. The results demonstrate the advantage and potential of the HHT-based method.


Author(s):  
Norden E. Huang ◽  
Kun Hu ◽  
Albert C. C. Yang ◽  
Hsing-Chih Chang ◽  
Deng Jia ◽  
...  

The Holo-Hilbert spectral analysis (HHSA) method is introduced to cure the deficiencies of traditional spectral analysis and to give a full informational representation of nonlinear and non-stationary data. It uses a nested empirical mode decomposition and Hilbert–Huang transform (HHT) approach to identify intrinsic amplitude and frequency modulations often present in nonlinear systems. Comparisons are first made with traditional spectrum analysis, which usually achieved its results through convolutional integral transforms based on additive expansions of an a priori determined basis, mostly under linear and stationary assumptions. Thus, for non-stationary processes, the best one could do historically was to use the time–frequency representations, in which the amplitude (or energy density) variation is still represented in terms of time. For nonlinear processes, the data can have both amplitude and frequency modulations (intra-mode and inter-mode) generated by two different mechanisms: linear additive or nonlinear multiplicative processes. As all existing spectral analysis methods are based on additive expansions, either a priori or adaptive, none of them could possibly represent the multiplicative processes. While the earlier adaptive HHT spectral analysis approach could accommodate the intra-wave nonlinearity quite remarkably, it remained that any inter-wave nonlinear multiplicative mechanisms that include cross-scale coupling and phase-lock modulations were left untreated. To resolve the multiplicative processes issue, additional dimensions in the spectrum result are needed to account for the variations in both the amplitude and frequency modulations simultaneously. HHSA accommodates all the processes: additive and multiplicative, intra-mode and inter-mode, stationary and non-stationary, linear and nonlinear interactions. The Holo prefix in HHSA denotes a multiple dimensional representation with both additive and multiplicative capabilities.


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