Analysis of multiple-faults of high-voltage circuit breakers based on non-negative matrix decomposition

High-voltage circuit breakers are the core equipment in power networks,and to a certain extent,are related to the safe and reliable operation of power systems.However,their core components are prone to mechanical faults.This study proposes a component separation method to detect multiple mechanical faults in circuit breakers that can achieve online real-time monitoring.First,a model and strategy are presented for obtaining mechanical voiceprint signals from circuit breakers.Subsequently,the component separation method was used to decompose the voiceprint signals of multiple faults into individual component signals.Based on this,the recognition of the features of a single-fault voiceprint signal can be achieved.Finally,multiple faults in high-voltage circuit breakers were identified through an experimental simulation and verification of the circuit breaker voiceprint signals collected from the substation site.The research results indicate that the proposed method exhibits excellent performance for multiple mechanical faults,such as spring structures and loose internal components of circuit breakers.In addition,it provides a reference method for the real-time online monitoring of high-voltage circuit breakers.

Multiple fault diagnosis of down-hole conditions of sucker-rod pumping wells based on Freeman chain code and DCA

It is important to achieve continuous, stable and efficient pumping well operation in actual oilfield operation. Down-hole pumping well working conditions can be monitored in real-time and a reasonable production scheme can be designed when computer diagnosis is used. However, it is difficult to make a comprehensive analysis to supply efficient technical guidance for operation of the pumping well with multiple faults of down-hole conditions, which cannot be effectively dealt with by the common methods. To solve this problem, a method based on designated component analysis （DCA） is used in this paper. Freeman chain code is used to represent the down-hole dynamometer card whose important characteristics are extracted to construct a designated mode set. A control chart is used as a basis for fault detection. The upper and lower control lines on the control chart are determined from standard samples in normal working conditions. In an incompletely orthogonal mode, the designated mode set could be divided into some subsets in which the modes are completely orthogonal. The observed data is projected into each designated mode to realize fault detection according to the upper and lower control lines. The examples show that the proposed method can effectively diagnose multiple faults of down-hole conditions.

Robust fault diagnosis with disturbance rejection and attenuation for systems with multiple disturbances

The fault diagnosis problem is investigated for a class of nonlinear neutral systems with multiple disturbances.Time-varying faults are considered and multiple disturbances are supposed to include the unknown disturbance modeled by an exo-system and norm bounded uncertain disturbance.A nonlinear disturbance observer is designed to estimate the modeled disturbance.Then,the fault diagnosis observer is constructed by integrating disturbance observer with disturbance attenuation and rejection performances.The augmented Lyapunov functional approach,which involves the tuning parameter and slack variable,is applied to make the solution of inequality more flexible.Finally,applications for a two-link robotic manipulator system are given to show the efficiency of the proposed approach.

Evaluation of fault diagnosability for nonlinear uncertain systems with multiple faults occurring simultaneously

Up to present,the problem of the evaluation of fault diagnosability for nonlinear systems has been investigated by many researchers.However,no attempt has been done to evaluate the diagnosability of multiple faults occurring simultaneously for nonlinear systems.This paper proposes a method based on differential geometry theories to solve this problem.Then the evaluation of fault diagnosability for affine nonlinear systems with multiple faults occurring simultaneously is achieved.To deal with the effect of control laws on the evaluation results of fault diagnosability,a design scheme of the evaluation of fault diagnosability is proposed.Then the influence of uncertainties on the evaluation results of fault diagnosability for affine nonlinear systems with multiple faults occurring simultaneously is analyzed.The numerical simulation results are obtained to show the effectiveness of the proposed evaluation scheme of fault diagnosability.

A New Method for the Detections of Multiple Faults Using Binary Decision Diagrams

With the complexity of integrated circuits is continually increasing, a local defect in circuits may cause multiple faults. The behavior of a digital circuit with a multiple fault may significantly differ from that of a single fault. A new method for the detection of multiple faults in digital circuits is presented in this paper, the method is based on binary decision diagram （BDD）. First of all, the BDDs for the normal circuit and faulty circuit are built respectively. Secondly, a test BDD is obtained by the XOR operation of the BDDs corresponds to normal circuit and faulty circuit. In the test BDD, each input assignment that leads to the leaf node labeled 1 is a test vector of multiple faults. Therefore, the test set of multiple faults is generated by searching for the type of input assignments in the test BDD. Experimental results on some digital circuits show the feasibility of the approach presented in this paper.

FAULT DETECTION FOR MULTIPLE-VALUED LOGIC CIRCUITS WITH FANOUT-FREE

The single fault and multiple fault detections for multiple-valued logic circuits are studied in this paper. Firstly, it is shown that the cardinality of optimal single fault test set for fanout-free m-valued circuits with n primary inputs is not more than n + 1, for linear tree circuits is two, and for multiplication modulo circuits is two if n is an odd number or if n is an even number and m ＞ 3, where the optimal test set of a circuit has minimal number of test vectors. Secondly,it is indicated that the cardinality of optimal multiple fault test set for linear tree circuits with n primary inputs is 1 + [n/(m - 1)], for multiplication modulo circuits is n+ 1, for fanout-free circuits that consist of 2-input linear tree circuits and 2-input multiplication modulo circuits is not greater than n+ 1, where [x] denotes the smallest integer greater than or equal to x. Finally,the single fault location approaches of linear tree circuits and multiplication modulo circuits are presented, and all faults in the two types of circuits can be located by using a test set with n + 1 vectors.

Unconfined compressive strength and failure behaviour of completely weathered granite from a fault zone

Understanding the strength characteristics and deformation behaviour of the tunnel surrounding rock in a fault zone is significant for tunnel stability evaluation.In this study,a series of unconfined compression tests were conducted to investigate the mechanical characteristics and failure behaviour of completely weathered granite(CWG)from a fault zone,considering with height-diameter(h/d)ratio,dry densities(ρd)and moisture contents(ω).Based on the experimental results,a regression mathematical model of unconfined compressive strength(UCS)for CWG was developed using the Multiple Nonlinear Regression method(MNLR).The research results indicated that the UCS of the specimen with a h/d ratio of 0.6 decreased with the increase ofω.When the h/d ratio increased to 1.0,the UCS increasedωwith up to 10.5%and then decreased.Increasingρd is conducive to the improvement of the UCS at anyω.The deformation and rupture process as well as final failure modes of the specimen are controlled by h/d ratio,ρd andω,and the h/d ratio is the dominant factor affecting the final failure mode,followed byωandρd.The specimens with different h/d ratio exhibited completely different fracture mode,i.e.,typical splitting failure(h/d=0.6)and shear failure(h/d=1.0).By comparing the experimental results,this regression model for predicting UCS is accurate and reliable,and the h/d ratio is the dominant factor affecting the UCS of CWG,followed byρd and thenω.These findings provide important references for maintenance of the tunnel crossing other fault fractured zones,especially at low confining pressure or unconfined condition.

Research and application of hierarchical model for multiple fault diagnosis

Computational complexity of complex system multiple fault diagnosis is a puzzle at all times. Based on the well known Mozetic＇s approach, a novel hierarchical model-based diagnosis methodology is put forward for improving efficency of multi-fault recognition and localization. Structural abstraction and weighted fault propagation graphs are combined to build diagnosis model. The graphs have weighted arcs with fault propagation probabilities and propagation strength. For solving the problem of coupled faults, two diagnosis strategies are used： one is the Lagrangian relaxation and the primal heuristic algorithms; another is the method of propagation strength. Finally, an applied example shows the applicability of the approach and experimental results are given to show the superiority of the presented technique.

Diagnosis of multiple faults using a double parallel two-hidden-layer extreme learning machine

Multiple faults are easily confused with single faults.In order to identify multiple faults more accurately,a highly efficient learning method is proposed based on a double parallel two-hidden-layer extreme learning machine,called DPTELM.The DPT-ELM method is a variant of an extreme learning machine(ELM).There are some issues with ELM.First,achieving a high accuracy requires too many hidden nodes;second,the direct connection between the input layer and the output layer is ignored.Accordingly,to deal with the above-mentioned problems,DPT-ELM extends the single-hidden-layer ELM to a two-hidden-layer ELM,which can achieve a desired performance with fewer hidden nodes.In addition,a direct connection is built between the input layer and the output layer.Since the input layer weights and the thresholds of the two hidden layers are determined randomly,this simplifies the improved model and shortens the calculation time.Additionally,to improve the signal to noise ratio(SNR),an adaptive waveform decomposition(AWD)algorithm is used to denoise the vibration signal.Then,the denoised signal is used to extract the eigenvalues by the time-domain and frequency-domain methods.Finally,the eigenvalues are input to the DPT-ELM classifier.In this paper,two groups of rolling bearing data at different speeds,which were collected from a real experimental platform,are used to test the method.Each set of data includes three single fault states,two complex fault states and a healthy state.The experimental results demonstrate that the DPT-ELM method achieves fast learning speed and a high accuracy.Moreover,based on 10-fold cross-validation,it proves to be an effective method to improve the accuracy with fewer hidden nodes.

基于SPSO优化Multiple Kernel-TWSVM的滚动轴承故障诊断

双子支持向量机(twin support vector machine,简称TWSVM)的核函数选择对其分类性能有着重要影响,TWSVM其核函数一般是局部核函数或者全局核函数,这两种核函数的泛化能力和分类性能不能兼顾。笔者利用综合加权的高斯局部核函数和多项式全局核函数方法组成双核函数来改进TWSVM以提高其泛化能力和分类性能,并采用简化粒子群优化(simple particle swarm optimization,简称SPSO)方法来对权值和参数进行优化,提出了SPSO优化Multiple Kernel-TWSVM模型,将该模型应用到滚动轴承故障诊断模式识别中。实验结果表明,双核TWSVM比单核TWSVM和反向传播(back propagation,简称BP)神经网络具有更高的分类准确率。

Fault detection filter design for linear discrete time-varying systems with multiplicative noise

The problem of fault detection for linear discrete timevarying systems with multiplicative noise is dealt with.By using an observer-based robust fault detection filter（FDF） as a residual generator,the design of the FDF is formulated in the framework of H ∞ filtering for a class of stochastic time-varying systems.A sufficient condition for the existence of the FDF is derived in terms of a Riccati equation.The determination of the parameter matrices of the filter is converted into a quadratic optimization problem,and an analytical solution of the parameter matrices is obtained by solving the Riccati equation.Numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Attention mechanism based multi-scale feature extraction of bearing fault diagnosis

Effective bearing fault diagnosis is vital for the safe and reliable operation of rotating machinery.In practical applications,bearings often work at various rotational speeds as well as load conditions.Yet,the bearing fault diagnosis under multiple conditions is a new subject,which needs to be further explored.Therefore,a multi-scale deep belief network(DBN)method integrated with attention mechanism is proposed for the purpose of extracting the multi-scale core features from vibration signals,containing four primary steps:preprocessing of multi-scale data,feature extraction,feature fusion,and fault classification.The key novelties include multi-scale feature extraction using multi-scale DBN algorithm,and feature fusion using attention mecha-nism.The benchmark dataset from University of Ottawa is applied to validate the effectiveness as well as advantages of this method.Furthermore,the aforementioned method is compared with four classical fault diagnosis methods reported in the literature,and the comparison results show that our pro-posed method has higher diagnostic accuracy and better robustness.

Isolation of Whole-plant Multiple Oscillations via Non-negative Spectral Decompositio

Constrained spectral non-negative matrix factorization(NMF)analysis of perturbed oscillatory process control loop variable data is performed for the isolation of multiple plant-wide oscillatory sources.The technique is described and demonstrated by analyzing data from both simulated and real plant data of a chemical process plant. Results show that the proposed approach can map multiple oscillatory sources onto the most appropriate control loops,and has superior performance in terms of reconstruction accuracy and intuitive understanding compared with spectral independent component analysis(ICA).

CIRCUIT TESTABLE DESIGN AND UNIVERSAL TEST SETS FOR MULTIPLE-VALUED LOGIC FUNCTIONS

The circuit testable realizations of multiple-valued functions are studied in this letter. First of all,it is shown that one vector detects all skew faults in multiplication modulo circuits or in addi-tion modulo circuits,and n+1 vectors detect all skew faults in the circuit realization of multiple-valued functions with n inputs. Secondly,min(max) bridging fault test sets with n+2 vectors are pre-sented for the circuit realizations of multiple-valued logic functions. Finally,a tree structure is used instead of cascade structure to reduce the delay in the circuit realization,it is shown that three vec-tors are sufficient to detect all single stuck-at faults in the tree structure realization of multiple-valued logic functions.

Energy Efficient Unequal Fault Tolerance Clustering Approach

For achieving Energy-Efficiency in wireless sensor networks(WSNs),different schemes have been proposed which focuses only on reducing the energy consumption.A shortest path determines for the Base Station(BS),but fault tolerance and energy balancing gives equal importance for improving the network lifetime.For saving energy in WSNs,clustering is considered as one of the effective methods for Wireless Sensor Networks.Because of the excessive overload,more energy consumed by cluster heads(CHs)in a cluster based WSN to receive and aggregate the information from member sensor nodes and it leads to failure.For increasing the WSNs’lifetime,the CHs selection has played a key role in energy consumption for sensor nodes.An Energy Efficient Unequal Fault Tolerant Clustering Approach(EEUFTC)is proposed for reducing the energy utilization through the intelligent methods like Particle Swarm Optimization(PSO).In this approach,an optimal Master Cluster Head(MCH)-Master data Aggregator(MDA),selection method is proposed which uses the fitness values and they evaluate based on the PSO for two optimal nodes in each cluster to act as Master Data Aggregator(MDA),and Master Cluster Head.The data from the cluster members collected by the chosen MCH exclusively and the MDA is used for collected data reception from MCH transmits to the BS.Thus,the MCH overhead reduces.During the heavy communication of data,overhead controls using the scheduling of Energy-Efficient Time Division Multiple Access(EE-TDMA).To describe the proposed method superiority based on various performance metrics,simulation and results are compared to the existing methods.

灾害天气下计及一二次设备耦合故障的电网短时风险评估

灾害天气下电网发生短时多重故障有可能超出保护系统预设的反应能力,一二次设备耦合影响将助推多重故障风险发展和蔓延。为此,提出了计及一二次设备耦合故障的短时风险评估方法。首先,分析了一次设备与二次设备之间的交互作用及其对电网短时运行风险的影响。其次,构建了一次设备和二次设备的故障概率模型,重点分析了一二次设备耦合故障引发保护拒动的概率。然后,结合保护系统对超预期故障的反应能力,提出了灾害天气下电网短时多重故障风险评估方法。最后,采用改造的IEEE39节点系统对所提方法进行测试。算例结果表明:受外界气象环境影响,保护系统缺陷暴露导致非期望动作使得电网多重故障风险更为严重;综合考虑灾害天气对一二次设备影响下的短时运行风险,对于发现和消除保护系统薄弱环节及制定电网降风险运行策略具有一定参考价值。

逆变型电源场站故障稳态电流实用化计算方法

单机倍乘法常用于逆变型电源场站的故障稳态建模,可简单估算场站短路电流水平,但计算精度有待提升。文中首先分析了低电压穿越控制策略约束下,有功出力、电压跌落程度对发电单元输出的稳态电流的决定性作用,得出故障稳态电流输出特性曲线,基于此分析了场站电气距离及有功出力差异对单机倍乘法计算误差的影响。在误差分析的基础上,提出了计及发电单元分布特性的改进单机倍乘法。该方法在发电单元接入点电压计算中,利用等值阻抗来等效发电单元与并网点的电气距离;将场站分群等值为两台机组,减小发电单元间有功出力差异对短路特性的影响。不同场景下的仿真分析表明,改进方法计算精度较单机倍乘法有着较大的提升。所提方法仅需通过简单计算即可实现场站分群和短路电流聚合,有较好的工程实用性。

基于MCS-SBL算法的配电网故障定位方法

配电网拓扑结构复杂,传统方法往往需要大量测点信息且难以实现快速有效的故障定位,本文提出基于少量测点信息的故障定位方法。首先,利用等效原理建立一个欠定的故障节点电压方程;其次,利用多重测量向量模型的贝叶斯压缩感知算法求解方程,根据重构稀疏电流矩阵的非零元素位置求解故障区域,实现故障定位;最后,在IEEE33节点配电系统上进行仿真实验,结果表明,所提方法仅需要少量测点的故障前后正序电压分量便可有效定位故障,计算速度较快,并且基本不受故障类型、过渡电阻的影响,同时适用于单故障和多重故障的场景,具有较强的抗噪能力。