A Novel Motor Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Generative Adversarial Learning with Distribution Fusion of Discrete Working Conditions

Many kinds of electrical equipment are used in civil and building engineering.The motor is one of the main power components of this electrical equipment,which can provide stable power output.During the long-term use of motors,various motor faults may occur,which affects the normal use of electrical equipment and even causes accidents.It is significant to apply fault diagnosis for the motors at the construction site.Aiming at the problem that signal data of faulty motor lack diversity,this research designs a multi-layer perceptron Wasserstein generative adversarial network,which is used to enhance training data through distribution fusion.A discrete wavelet decomposition algorithm is employed to extract the low-frequency wavelet coefficients from the original motor current signals.These are used to train themulti-layer perceptron Wasserstein generative adversarial model.Then,the trainedmodel is applied to generate fake current wavelet coefficients with the fused distribution.A motor fault classification model consisting of a feature extractor and pattern recognizer is built based on perceptron.The data augmentation experiment shows that the fake dataset has a larger distribution than the real dataset.The classification model trained on a real dataset,fake dataset and combined dataset achieves 21.5%,87.2%,and 90.1%prediction accuracy on the unseen real data,respectively.The results indicate that the proposed data augmentation method can effectively generate fake data with the fused distribution.The motor fault classification model trained on a fake dataset has better generalization performance than that trained on a real dataset.

Unsupervised Electric Motor Fault Detection by Using Deep Autoencoders

Fault diagnosis of electric motors is a fundamental task for production line testing, and it is usually performed by experienced human operators. In the recent years, several methods have been proposed in the literature for detecting faults automatically. Deep neural networks have been successfully employed for this task, but, up to the authors' knowledge, they have never been used in an unsupervised scenario. This paper proposes an unsupervised method for diagnosing faults of electric motors by using a novelty detection approach based on deep autoencoders. In the proposed method, vibration signals are acquired by using accelerometers and processed to extract LogMel coefficients as features. Autoencoders are trained by using normal data only, i.e., data that do not contain faults. Three different autoencoders architectures have been evaluated: the multilayer perceptron(MLP) autoencoder, the convolutional neural network autoencoder, and the recurrent autoencoder composed of long short-term memory(LSTM) units. The experiments have been conducted by using a dataset created by the authors, and the proposed approaches have been compared to the one-class support vector machine(OC-SVM) algorithm. The performance has been evaluated in terms area under curve(AUC) of the receiver operating characteristic curve, and the results showed that all the autoencoder-based approaches outperform the OCSVM algorithm. Moreover, the MLP autoencoder is the most performing architecture, achieving an AUC equal to 99.11 %.

An Adaptive EMD Technique for Induction Motor Fault Detection

Reliable induction motor (IM) fault detection techniques are very useful in industries to diagnose IM defects and improve operational performance. An adaptive empirical mode decomposition (EMD) technology is proposed in this paper for rotor bar fault detection in IMs. As the characteristic fault frequency will change with operating conditions related to load and speed, the proposed adaptive EMD technique correlates fault features over different frequency bands and intrinsic mode function (IMF) sidebands. The adaptive EMD technique uses the first IMF to detect the fault type and the second IMF as an indicator to predict the fault severity. It can overcome the problems of the sensitivity of sideband frequencies related to the speed and load oscillations. The effectiveness of the proposed adaptive EMD technique is verified by experimental tests under different motor conditions.

Development of Magnetic Field Sensor and Motor Fault Monitoring Application

For the purpose of motor fault real-time monitoring, this research developed a nano-silicon ni- tride film based magnetic field (MF) sensor, and applied this sensor in MF detection of two common faults. Through experiment, it turned out that arc discharge and slot discharge occur in motor fault produce MF with certain laws. This result proved the feasibility of the sensor and sensing method in MF analysis, and revealed possibility of a new method in fault detection.

Research on motor rotation anomaly detection based on improved VMD algorithm

Purpose–The electromechanical brake system is leading the latest development trend in railway braking technology.The tolerance stack-up generated during the assembly and production process catalyzes the slight geometric dimensioning and tolerancing between the motor stator and rotor inside the electromechanical cylinder.The tolerance leads to imprecise brake control,so it is necessary to diagnose the fault of the motor in the fully assembled electromechanical brake system.This paper aims to present improved variational mode decomposition(VMD)algorithm,which endeavors to elucidate and push the boundaries of mechanical synchronicity problems within the realm of the electromechanical brake system.Design/methodology/approach–The VMD algorithm plays a pivotal role in the preliminary phase,employing mode decomposition techniques to decompose the motor speed signals.Afterward,the error energy algorithm precision is utilized to extract abnormal features,leveraging the practical intrinsic mode functions,eliminating extraneous noise and enhancing the signal’s fidelity.This refined signal then becomes the basis for fault analysis.In the analytical step,the cepstrum is employed to calculate the formant and envelope of the reconstructed signal.By scrutinizing the formant and envelope,the fault point within the electromechanical brake system is precisely identified,contributing to a sophisticated and accurate fault diagnosis.Findings–This paper innovatively uses the VMD algorithm for the modal decomposition of electromechanical brake(EMB)motor speed signals and combines it with the error energy algorithm to achieve abnormal feature extraction.The signal is reconstructed according to the effective intrinsic mode functions(IMFS)component of removing noise,and the formant and envelope are calculated by cepstrum to locate the fault point.Experiments show that the empirical mode decomposition(EMD)algorithm can effectively decompose the original speed signal.After feature extraction,signal enhancement and fault identification,the motor mechanical fault point can be accurately located.This fault diagnosis method is an effective fault diagnosis algorithm suitable for EMB systems.Originality/value–By using this improved VMD algorithm,the electromechanical brake system can precisely identify the rotational anomaly of the motor.This method can offer an online diagnosis analysis function during operation and contribute to an automated factory inspection strategy while parts are assembled.Compared with the conventional motor diagnosis method,this improved VMD algorithm can eliminate the need for additional acceleration sensors and save hardware costs.Moreover,the accumulation of online detection functions helps improve the reliability of train electromechanical braking systems.

Fault Detection and Identification Using Deep Learning Algorithms in Induction Motors

Owing to the 4.0 industrial revolution condition monitoring maintenance is widely accepted as a useful approach to avoiding plant disturbances and shutdown.Recently,Motor Current Signature Analysis(MCSA)is widely reported as a condition monitoring technique in the detection and identification of individual andmultiple Induction Motor(IM)faults.However,checking the fault detection and classification with deep learning models and its comparison among them selves or conventional approaches is rarely reported in the literature.Therefore,in this work,wepresent the detection and identification of induction motor faults with MCSA and three Deep Learning(DL)models namely MLP,LSTM,and 1D-CNN.Initially,we have developed the model of Squirrel Cage induction motor in MATLAB and simulated it for single phasing and stator winding faults(SWF)using Fast Fourier Transform(FFT),Short Time Fourier Transform(STFT),and Continuous Wavelet Transform(CWT)to detect and identify the healthy and unhealthy conditions with phase to ground,single phasing and in multiple fault conditions using Motor Current Signature Analysis.The faults impact on stator current is presented in the time and frequency domain(i.e.,power spectrum).The simulation results show that the scalogram has shown good results in time-frequency analysis for fault and showing its impact on the energy of current during individual fault and multiple fault conditions.This is further investigated with three deep learning models(i.e.,MLP,LSTM,and 1D-CNN)for checking the fault detection and identification(i.e.,classification)improvement in a three-phase induction motor.By simulating the three-phase induction motor in various healthy and unhealthy conditions in MATLAB,we have collected current signature data in the time domain,labeled them accordingly and created the 50 thousand samples dataset for DL models.All the DL models are trained and validated with a suitable number of architecture layers.By simulation,the multiclass confusion matrix,precision,recall,and F1-score are obtained in several conditions.The result shows that the stator current signature of the motor can be used to detect individual and multiple faults.Moreover,deep learning models can efficiently classify the induction motor faults based on time-domain data of the stator current signature.In deep learning(DL)models,the LSTM has shown better accuracy among all other three models.These results show that employing deep learning in fault detection and identification of induction motors can be very useful in predictive maintenance to avoid shutdown and production cycle stoppage in the industry.

Simulation Research of Fault Model of Detecting Rotor Dynamic Eccentricity in Brushless DC Motor Based on Motor Current Signature Analysis

基于Ansoft／Maxwell设置动态偏心故障，建立求解电机电感和磁链的有限元模型，通过仿真，证明了将感应电机动态偏心故障的特征频率经过简化后，同样适用于无刷直流电动机。基于Ansoft／Simplorer建立无刷直流电动机系统的仿真模型。在电机稳态运行下，对定子电流进行傅里叶分析，研究并建立基于定子电流监测动态偏心故障的仿真模型：动态偏心故障与特征频率的关系、动态偏心故障程度与特征频率幅值的关系。进而研究了无刷直流电动机稳态运行时转速波动对偏心故障监测的影响。仿真结果表明，转子偏心程度加大，特征频率的幅值增加。

Fourier and wavelet transformations application to fault detection of induction motor with stator current

Fault detection of an induction motor was carried out using the information of the stator current. After synchronizing the actual data, Fourier and wavelet transformations were adopted in order to obtain the sideband or detail value characteristics under healthy and various faulty operating conditions. The most reliable phase current among the three phase currents was selected using an approach that employs the fuzzy entropy measure. Data were trained with a neural network system, and the fault detection algorithm was verified using the unknown data. Results of the proposed approach based on Fourier and wavelet transformations indicate that the faults can be properly classified into six categories. The training error is 5.3×10-7, and the average test error is 0.103.

On-Line Broken-Bar Fault Diagnosis System of Induction Motor

Induction motor faults including mechanical and electrical faults are reviewed.The fault diagnosis methods are summarized.To analyze the influence of stator current,torque,speed and rotor current on faulted bars,a time-stepping transient finite element(FE)model of induction motor with bars faulted is created in this paper.With wavelet package analysis method and FFT method, the simulation result of finite element is analyzed.Based on the simulation analysis,the on-line fault diagnosis system of induction motor with bars faulted is developed.With the speed of broken bars motor changed from 1 478 r/min to 1 445 r/min,the FFT power spectra and the wavelet package decoupling factors are given.The comparison result shows that the on-line diagnosis system can detect broken-bar fault efficiently.

Fault detection method with PCA and LDA and its application to induction motor

A feature extraction and fusion algorithm was constructed by combining principal component analysis(PCA) and linear discriminant analysis(LDA) to detect a fault state of the induction motor.After yielding a feature vector with PCA and LDA from current signal that was measured by an experiment,the reference data were used to produce matching values.In a diagnostic step,two matching values that were obtained by PCA and LDA,respectively,were combined by probability model,and a faulted signal was finally diagnosed.As the proposed diagnosis algorithm brings only merits of PCA and LDA into relief,it shows excellent performance under the noisy environment.The simulation was executed under various noisy conditions in order to demonstrate the suitability of the proposed algorithm and showed more excellent performance than the case just using conventional PCA or LDA.

Diagnosis of stator faults in induction motor based on zero sequence voltage after switch-off

To improve the accuracy of the stator winding fault diagnosis in induction motor,a new diagnostic method based on the Hilbert-Huang transform(HHT)was proposed.The ratio of fundamental zero sequence voltage to positive sequence voltage after switch-off was selected as the stator fault characteristic,which could effectively avoid the influence of the supply unbalance and the load fluctuation,and directly represent the asymmetry in the stator.Using the empirical mode decomposition(EMD)based on HHT,the zero sequence voltage after switch-off was decomposed and the fundamental component was extracted.Then,the fault characteristic can be acquired.Experimental results on a 4-kW induction motor demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of this method.

Rotor broken bar fault diagnosis for induction motors based on double PQ transformation

A new rotor broken bar fault diagnosis method for induction motors based on the double PQ transformation is pre-sented. By distinguishing the different patterns of the PQ components in the PQ plane,the rotor broken bar fault can be detected. The magnitude of power component directly resulted from rotor fault is used as the fault indicator and the distance between the point of no-load condition and the center of the ellipse as its normalization value. Based on these,the fault severity factor which is completely independent of the inertia and load level is defined. Moreover,a method to reliably discriminate between rotor faults and periodic load fluctuation is presented. Experimental results from a 4 kW induction motor demonstrated the validity of the proposed method.

Fault detection and diagnosis of permanent-magnetic DC motors based on current analysis and BP neural networks

In order to guarantee quality during mass serial production of motors, a convenient approach on how to detect and diagnose the faults of a permanent-magnetic DC motor based on armature current analysis and BP neural networks was presented in this paper. The fault feature vector was directly established by analyzing the armature current. Fault features were extracted from the current using various signal processing methods including Fourier analysis, wavelet analysis and statistical methods. Then an advanced BP neural network was used to finish decision-making and separate fault patterns. Finally, the accuracy of the method in this paper was verified by analyzing the mechanism of faults theoretically. The consistency between the experimental results and the theoretical analysis shows that four kinds of representative faults of low power permanent-magnetic DC motors can be diagnosed conveniently by this method. These four faults are brush fray, open circuit of components, open weld of components and short circuit between armature coils. This method needs fewer hardware instruments than the conventional method and whole procedures can be accomplished by several software packages developed in this paper.

A Fault Diagnosis Expert System for a Heavy Motor Used in a Rolling Mill

A fault diagnosis expert system for a heavy motor used in a rolling mill is established in this paper. The fault diagnosis knowledge base was built, and its knowledge was represented by production rules. The knowledge base includes daily inspection system, brief diagnosis system and precise diagnosis system. A pull down menu was adopted for the management of the knowledge base. The system can run under the help of expert system development tools. Practical examples show that the expert system can diagnose faults rapidly and precisely.

Application of the fault diagnosis strategy based on hierarchical information fusion in motors fault diagnosis

This paper has analyzed merits and demerits of both neural network technique and of the information fusion methods based on the D-S (dempster-shafer evidence) Theory as well as their complementarity, proposed the hierarchical information fusion fault diagnosis strategy by combining the neural network technique and the fused decision diagnosis based on D-S Theory, and established a corresponding functional model. Thus, we can not only solve a series of problems caused by rapid growth in size and complexity of neural network structure with diagnosis parameters increasing, but also can provide effective method for basic probability assignment in D-S Theory. The application of the strategy to diagnosing faults of motor bearings has proved that this method is of fairly high accuracy and reliability in fault diagnosis.

Wavelet Transform and Neural Networks in Fault Diagnosis of a Motor Rotor

In the motor fault diagnosis technique, vibration and stator current frequency components of detection are two main means. This article will discuss the signal detection method based on vibration fault. Because the motor vibration signal is a non-stationary random signal, fault signals often contain a lot of time-varying, burst proper- ties of ingredients. The traditional Fourier signal analysis can not effectively extract the motor fault characteristics, but are also likely to be rich in failure information but a weak signal as noise. Therefore, we introduce wavelet packet transforms to extract the fault characteristics of the signal information. Obtained was the result as the neural network input signal, using the L-M neural network optimization method for training, and then used the BP net- work for fault recognition. This paper uses Matlab software to simulate and confirmed the method of motor fault di- agnosis validity and accuracy

Broken Rotor Bar Fault Detection of Induction Motors Using a Joint Algorithm of Trust Region and Modified Bare-bones Particle Swarm Optimization

A precise detection of the fault feature parameter of motor current is a new research hotspot in the broken rotor bar(BRB) fault diagnosis of induction motors. Discrete Fourier transform(DFT) is the most popular technique in this field, owing to low computation and easy realization. However, its accuracy is often limited by the data window length, spectral leakage, fence e ect, etc. Therefore, a new detection method based on a global optimization algorithm is proposed. First, a BRB fault current model and a residual error function are designed to transform the fault parameter detection problem into a nonlinear least-square problem. Because this optimization problem has a great number of local optima and needs to be resolved rapidly and accurately, a joint algorithm(called TR-MBPSO) based on a modified bare-bones particle swarm optimization(BPSO) and trust region(TR) is subsequently proposed. In the TR-MBPSO, a reinitialization strategy of inactive particle is introduced to the BPSO to enhance the swarm diversity and global search ability. Meanwhile, the TR is combined with the modified BPSO to improve convergence speed and accuracy. It also includes a global convergence analysis, whose result proves that the TR-MBPSO can converge to the global optimum with the probability of 1. Both simulations and experiments are conducted, and the results indicate that the proposed detection method not only has high accuracy of parameter estimation with short-time data window, e.g., the magnitude and frequency precision of the fault-related components reaches 10^(-4), but also overcomes the impacts of spectral leakage and non-integer-period sampling. The proposed research provides a new BRB detection method, which has enough precision to extract the parameters of the fault feature components.

Broken Rotor Bar Fault Diagnosis of Induction Motors Using a Hybrid Bare-bones Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm

在传统定子电流频谱分析中,感应电机转子断条故障特征经常被基波分量淹没而无法准确检测。针对该问题,提出一种基于混合骨干微粒群优化算法的转子断条故障诊断新方法。该方法首先根据电流信号与单位余弦基函数的内积最大准则,利用混合骨干微粒群算法强大的全局搜索能力,准确估计出基波波形参数;然后利用波形参数构造出基波表达式,并将其从原电流信号中剔除,达到突出故障特征的目的。针对微粒群算法在进化后期收敛缓慢的缺点,通过K–均值聚类方式,引入单纯形法对其进行改进,使整个算法的广度探索与深度开发能力得到了有效均衡。最后,对模拟数据和实测信号进行实验,结果验证了所提方法的有效性和优越性。

Fault Tolerant Neuro-Robust Position Control of DC Motors

DC motors are widely used in industry such as mechanics, robotics, and aerospace engineering. In this paper, we present a high performance control method for position control of DC motors. Fault-tolerant control model are also addressed to combine with neuro-robust control approach. It is shown that with the proposed control algorithms, external disturbances and coupled dynamics inherent in the system are effectively compensated using neural network unit in which no analytical estimation on the upper bound of the reconstruction error and uncertainties is needed. Simulations on various flight conditions also confirm the effectiveness of the proposed methods.

基于相位差的轴向磁通无铁心电机早期轻微匝间短路故障诊断

针对轴向磁通定子无铁心电机早期匝间短路故障问题,提出一种基于零序分量和定子电流分量相位差的轴向磁通定子无铁心电机的早期匝间短路故障诊断和定位方法。首先,根据定子绕组电感极小的特点建立了匝间短路故障数学模型;其次,对故障前后的短路电流、相电流、零序分量等进行了傅里叶分析,通过零序电压基波幅值变化对匝间短路故障进行识别;最后,通过对比零序电压基波与定子三相电流初相位差来进行故障相定位。结果表明,匝间短路故障相的相电流基波初始相位与零序电压基波初相位差的绝对值近似180°,而健康相的相位差与180°相差较大。基于相位差可以实现轴向磁通无铁心电机早期匝间短路故障的诊断与定位,为永磁电机的匝间短路故障诊断提供了参考。