基于MCSA和SVM的异步电机转子故障诊断

本文提出一种基于电机电流信号频谱分析和支持向量机的异步电机转子故障诊断方法，该方法可以利用支持向量机对电机电流频谱信号的特征信息和故障模式进行关联。对电机定子电流采样后，其信号经FFT变换后提取故障特征量作为支持向量机的输入，基于1对1算法构造了感应电机转子故障多类分类器。实验结果表明，该方法具有很好的分类和泛化能力，可以提高电机故障诊断的准确性。     

鼠笼电机转子断条故障的定子电流信号平方解调分析诊断方法

受基频频谱泄露影响,经典MCSA方法诊断鼠笼电机转子断条故障时的诊断能力严重依赖于电机负载大小。针对这一问题,提出了基于定子电流信号平方解调制分析诊断方法。首先采用硬件方式对定子电流信号作基于平方解调制的信号预处理,以此消除制约诊断能力的基频频谱泄露,继而对解调后的信号作快速傅里叶变换,然后根据频谱中是否存在特征频率成分判断转子断条故障发生与否。在3 k W电机实验平台上对所提出的方法进行实验验证。实验结果表明,即使鼠笼电机在轻载或空载条件下运行时所提出的方法仍然能够诊断出转子断条故障,从而有效提高了诊断能力。     

Induction machine condition monitoring using notch-filtered motor current

This paper presents a new approach to induction motor condition monitoring using notch-filtered motor current signature analysis (NFMCSA). Unlike most of the previous work utilizing motor current signature analysis (MCSA) using spectral methods to extract required features for detecting motor fault conditions, here NFMCSA is performed in time-domain to extract features of energy, sample extrema, and third and fourth cumulants evaluated from data within sliding time window. Six identical three-phase induction motors were used for the experimental verification of the proposed method. One healthy machine was used as a reference, while other five with different synthetic faults were used for condition detection and classification. Extracted features obtained from NFMCSA of all motors were employed in three different and popular classifiers. The proposed motor current analysis and the performance of the features used for fault detection and classification are examined at various motor load levels and it is shown that a successful induction motor condition monitoring system is developed. Developed system is also able to indicate the load level and the type of a fault in multi-dimensional feature space representation. In order to test the generality and applicability of the developed method to other induction motors, data acquired from another healthy induction motor with different number of poles and rated power is also incorporated into the system. In spite of the above difference, the proposed feature set successfully locates the healthy motor within the classification cluster of “healthy motors” on the feature space.     

Broken rotor bars detection by a new non-invasive diagnostic procedure

A new technique of diagnosing data for broken rotor bars in induction motors derived from two of the three stator currents, the Beirut diagnostic procedure (BDP) is presented in this paper. The theoretical principles directly related to the application of this diagnostic technique are described, emphasizing the use of a severity factor in order to evaluate the extension of the fault. Defining the severity factor as the normalized amplitude of the fault characteristic frequency enables us to draw up a table of comparison of several usual electric diagnostic methods. Besides the traditional one-phase current spectrum analysis, values of the severity factor related to electrical signals like the instantaneous powers, the current space vector modulus and finally related to the new Beirut diagnostic method are analyzed with respect to the variation of the power factor angle and of the sum of the two current side-band angular displacement. The BDP offers several advantages over the usual motor current signature analyses (MCSA) methods: it is shown how the proposed severity factor applied to the new diagnostic technique is not dependent on motor parameters such as the power factor angle and the fault type which is not the case of the instantaneous powers. In addition, the BDP has the advantage of detecting easily fault characteristic frequencies, which is not possible via diagnostic methods that use the detection of two side-band components as in the simple current spectrum.By theoretical analysis, computer simulations, and laboratory experiments, it is shown that the new method enhances the reliability of diagnostics of broken rotor bars in induction motor.     

Fault diagnosis in six-phase induction motor using a current trajectory mass center

This paper proposes a new methodology for diagnosing the occurrence of stator winding faults in the six-phase induction motor. The proposed approach uses the xy current trajectory mass center of the motor stator currents. The Park transform is applied to the acquired induction motor stator currents. This transformation allows obtaining specific patterns that are used to identify stator winding faults. For healthy motors, a single point in the xy-plane is obtained. However, for a motor with a stator winding fault a circle is obtained, whose radius is related with the severity of the fault. To identify these patterns an algorithm, entitled current trajectory mass center, was developed. A theoretical analysis of the six-phase motor in αβ and xy current coordinates, for healthy and stator fault operation modes, is also presented. In order to show the applicability of the proposed technique several simulation and experimental results are presented.     

Novel approach using Hilbert Transform for multiple broken rotor bars fault location detection for three phase induction motor

This paper presents a new approach to detect the location of multiple broken rotor bars (MBRBs) in induction motor (IM) drive, running under no load and full load conditions using direct in and variable frequency drives. This technique is based on earlier work of location detection of one broken rotor bar. The techniques are tested for various fault severity levels so the detection of the exact location of the fault at early stage helps to reach sufficient time maintenance. In this paper, the authors used Hilbert Transform to extract the fault signature from the stator current envelope which is the low frequency component. Then statistical analysis is applied which produce a formula that is used to get the exact location of the fault in IM rotor.     

基于高分辨率谱估计的早期转子断条故障诊断

以快速傅里叶变换(FFT)为基础的电机电流信号特征分析(MCSA)具有频率分辨率低的固有缺陷,从而严重影响了鼠笼电机早期转子断条故障的诊断性能。为解决这一问题,提出基于高分辨率谱估计的早期转子断条故障诊断方法。首先利用Hilbert变换和离散小波变换对单相定子电流信号预处理,然后采用扩展Prony算法对预处理后的信号进行定性/定量分析。运用该方法对不同故障严重程度、不同负载条件下的3 k W电机稳态定子电流信号进行分析,并与FFT分析结果做对比。实验结果表明,即使在短时数据条件下所提方法仍然能够准确诊断出早期转子断条故障,验证了该方法的有效性和优越性。     

Detection of combined faults in induction machines with stator parallel branches through the DWT of the startup current

The main objective of this paper is to diagnose the presence of combined faults in induction machines. For this purpose, a methodology based on the application of the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) to the stator startup current is used. This approach was applied in previous works with success to the diagnosis of rotor asymmetries and mixed eccentricities in motors with different sizes and conditions. However, as most of the diagnosis methods hitherto developed, the application of the proposed approach was circumscribed to situations in which a single fault was present in the machine. In addition, the influence of other phenomena such as load torque oscillations or voltage fluctuations was studied, but without considering the combination of these phenomena and the fault in the machine. This work is intended, first, to apply the proposed transient-based methodology to several cases in which different faults (rotor asymmetries, mixed eccentricities and inter-turn and inter-coil stator short-circuits) are simultaneously present in the machine and, second, to apply it to cases regarding faults combined with other phenomena making difficult the diagnosis, such as load torque oscillations. Interesting considerations regarding the preponderance of the effects of some of the faults are also done in the paper. The application of the methodology is focused on induction machines with stator parallel branches; in this sense, the suitability of the use either of the phase current or of the branch current for the diagnosis of each particular fault is analysed. The results look promising with regard to the validity of the methodology for the reliable discrimination of simultaneous electromechanical faults and the diagnosis of faults combined with other phenomena.     

Identifying three-phase induction motor faults using artificial neural networks

This paper presents an artificial neural network (ANN) based technique to identify faults in a three-phase induction motor. The main types of faults considered are overload, single phasing, unbalanced supply voltage, locked rotor, ground fault, over-voltage and under-voltage. Three-phase currents and voltages from the induction motor are used in the proposed approach. A feedforward layered neural network structure is used. The network is trained using the backpropagation algorithm. The trained network is tested with simulated fault current and voltage data. Fault detection is attempted in the no fault to fault transition period. Off-line testing results on a 3 HP induction motor model show that the proposed ANN based method is effective in identifying various types of faults.     

A validated model for the prediction of rotor bar failure in squirrel-cage motors using instantaneous angular speed

Instantaneous angular speed (IAS)-based condition monitoring is an area in which significant progress has been achieved over the recent years. This condition monitoring technique is less known compared to the existing conventional methods. This paper presents model-predicted simulation and experimental results of broken rotor bar faults in a three-phase induction motor using IAS variations. The simulation was performed under normal, and a broken rotor bar fault. The present paper evaluates through simulating and measuring the IAS of an induction motor at broken rotor bar faults in both time and frequency domains. Experimental results show a good agreement with the model-predicted simulation results. Three vital key features were extracted from the angular speed variations. One feature is the modulating contour of pole pass frequency periods in time domain. The other two features are in frequency domain. The primary feature is the presence of the pole pass frequency component at the low-frequency region of the IAS spectrum. The secondary feature which are the multiple of pole pass frequency sideband components around the rotor speed frequency component. Experimental results confirm the validity of the simulation results for the proposed method. The IAS has demonstrated more sensitivity than current signature analysis in detecting the fault. This research also shows the power of angular speed features as a useful tool to detect broken rotor bar deteriorations using any economical transducer such as low-resolution rotary shaft encoders; which may well be already installed for process control purposes.     

Bispectrum of stator phase current for fault detection of induction motor

A number of research studies has shown that faults in a stator or rotor generally show sideband frequencies around the mains frequency (50 Hz) and at higher harmonics in the spectrum of the Motor Current Signature Analysis (MCSA). However in the present experimental studies such observations have not been seen, but any fault either in the stator or the rotor may distort the sinusoidal response of the motor RPM and the mains frequency so the MCSA response may contain a number of harmonics of the motor RPM and the mains frequency. Hence the use of a higher order spectrum (HOS), namely the bispectrum of the MCSA has been proposed here because it relates both amplitude and phase of number of the harmonics in a signal. It has been observed that it not only detects early faults but also indicates the severity of the fault to some extent.     

An approach for automated fault diagnosis based on a fuzzy decision tree and boundary analysis of a reconstructed phase space

Although reconstructed phase space is one of the most powerful methods for analyzing a time series, it can fail in fault diagnosis of an induction motor when the appropriate pre-processing is not performed. Therefore, boundary analysis based a new feature extraction method in phase space is proposed for diagnosis of induction motor faults. The proposed approach requires the measurement of one phase current signal to construct the phase space representation. Each phase space is converted into an image, and the boundary of each image is extracted by a boundary detection algorithm. A fuzzy decision tree has been designed to detect broken rotor bars and broken connector faults. The results indicate that the proposed approach has a higher recognition rate than other methods on the same dataset.     

变频供电异步电动机转子断条故障诊断

异步电机转子断条故障发生时,定子电流（变频器输出侧电流）中会出现对称频率（1±2s）f1（f1为定子电流频率）的故障特征附加电流信号。以此为依据,定子电流特征频谱分析（MCSA）发展为经典转子断条故障在线检测方法。在工程实际过程中,变频供电异步电动机容易采集到的信号是开关柜二次侧供电电流（变频器输入侧电流）．因此要实现变频异步电动机转子断条故障诊断,必须清楚供电电流中是否也含有断条故障特征信息。首次对变频异步电动机供电电流进行分析．得出供电电流中也包括转子断条故障特征信息的结论,以此为基础。利用连续细化傅立叶和自适应滤波相结合的方法,实现了变频异步电动机转子断条故障诊断。     

DWT analysis of numerical and experimental data for the diagnosis of dynamic eccentricities in induction motors

The behaviour of an induction machine during a startup transient can provide useful information for the diagnosis of electromechanical faults. During this process, the machine works under high stresses and the effects of the faults may also be larger than those in steady-state. These facts may help to amplify the magnitude of the indicators of some incipient faults. In addition, fault components with frequencies dependant on the slip evolve in a particular way during that transient, a fact that allows the diagnosis of the corresponding fault and the discrimination between different faults. The discrete wavelet transform (DWT) is an ideal tool for analysing signals with frequency spectrum variable in time. Some research works have applied with success the DWT to the stator startup current in order to diagnose the presence of broken rotor bars in induction machines. However, few works have used this technique for the study of other common faults, such as eccentricities. In this work, time–frequency analysis of the stator startup current is carried out in order to detect the presence of dynamic eccentricities in an induction motor. For this purpose, the DWT is applied and wavelet signals at different levels are studied. Data are obtained from simulations, using a finite element (FE) model of an induction motor, which allows forcing several kinds of faults in the machine, and also from experimental tests. The results show the validity of the approach for detecting the fault and discriminating with respect to other failures, presenting for certain applications (or working conditions) some advantages over the traditional stationary analysis.     

异步电动机故障诊断的小波变换等高图方法

用Morlet小波作为小波基，对异步电动机鼠笼转子故障时的定子电流信号进行多尺度分析，将获得的小波变换系数用等高图表示，从中能清楚地识别出异步电机鼠笼转子不同断条的故障。较基于傅立叶变换的故障诊断，该方法对异步电动机故障的辩识能力有显著提高。     

基于定子起动电流局域波分析的鼠笼异步电动机转子故障检测

论述了局域波分析方法的基本原理及特点,该方法源于瞬时频率的概念,它能把动态信号的局部特征准确地在时频域内予以描述;分析了异步电动机起动过程中转子故障特征量(1-2s)f1(f1为电网频率)分量的变化规律,提出了基于定子起动电流局域波分析的异步电动机转子故障特征提取新方法并应用到电机故障特征提取中。对实测数据进行处理的结果表明,该方法能够有效地检测出转子故障。     

Fault diagnosis of motor drives using stator current signal analysis based on dynamic time warping

Electrical motor stator current signals have been widely used to monitor the condition of induction machines and their downstream mechanical equipment. The key technique used for current signal analysis is based on Fourier transform (FT) to extract weak fault sideband components from signals predominated with supply frequency component and its higher order harmonics. However, the FT based method has limitations such as spectral leakage and aliasing, leading to significant errors in estimating the sideband components. Therefore, this paper presents the use of dynamic time warping (DTW) to process the motor current signals for detecting and quantifying common faults in a downstream two-stage reciprocating compressor. DTW is a time domain based method and its algorithm is simple and easy to be embedded into real-time devices. In this study DTW is used to suppress the supply frequency component and highlight the sideband components based on the introduction of a reference signal which has the same frequency component as that of the supply power. Moreover, a sliding window is designed to process the raw signal using DTW frame by frame for effective calculation. Based on the proposed method, the stator current signals measured from the compressor induced with different common faults and under different loads are analysed for fault diagnosis. Results show that DTW based on residual signal analysis through the introduction of a reference signal allows the supply components to be suppressed well so that the fault related sideband components are highlighted for obtaining accurate fault detection and diagnosis results. In particular, the root mean square (RMS) values of the residual signal can indicate the differences between the healthy case and different faults under varying discharge pressures. It provides an effective and easy approach to the analysis of motor current signals for better fault diagnosis of the downstream mechanical equipment of motor drives in the time domain in comparison with conventional FT based methods.     

大型电动机的状态监测及诊断

电动机故障包括绝缘故障、定子故障、转子故障、轴承故障等。各种故障都会以一定的故障信号方式表现出来，而通过对信号中故障特征信号的提取分析可以对电动机故障进行判断。本文对电动机的多种基于信号监测的故障分析方法进行了原理分析，包括对定子电流信号的多种分析、轴承振动的频谱分析、电动机转速的波动分析等，对其他的多种故障监测方法也进行了介绍，并对每种分析方法所适用的故障诊断类型及优缺点给予了说明，最后指出了今后的发展趋势，为电动机故障诊断方法的应用提供了参考依据。     

Rotor fault condition monitoring techniques for squirrel-cage induction machine—A review

Nowadays, manufacturing companies are making great efforts to implement an effective machinery maintenance program, which provides incipient fault detection. The machine problem and its irregularity can be detected at an early stage by employing a suitable condition monitoring accompanied with powerful signal processing technique. Among various defects occurred in machines, rotor faults are of significant importance as they cause secondary failures that lead to a serious motor malfunction. Diagnosis of rotor failures has long been an important but complicated task in the area of motor faults detection. This paper intends to review and summarize the recent researches and developments performed in condition monitoring of the induction machine with the purpose of rotor faults detection. The aim of this article is to provide a broad outlook on rotor fault monitoring techniques for the researchers and engineers.     

Hybrid algorithmic approach oriented to incipient rotor fault diagnosis on induction motors

This paper investigates the current monitoring for effective fault diagnosis in induction motor (IM) by using random forest (RF) algorithms. A rotor bar breakage of IM does not derive in a catastrophic fault but its timely detection can avoid catastrophic consequences in the stator or prevent malfunctioning of those applications in which this sort of fault is the primary concern. Current-based fault signatures depend enormously on the IM power source and in the load connected to the motor. Hence, homogeneous sets of current signals were acquired through multiple experiments at particular loading torques and IM feedings from an experimental test bench in which incipient rotor severities were considered. Understanding the importance of each fault signature in relation to its diagnosis performance is an interesting matter. To this end, we propose a hybrid approach based on Simulated Annealing algorithm to conduct a global search over the computed feature set for feature selection purposes, which reduce the computational requirements of the diagnosis tool. Then, a novel Oblique RF classifier is used to build multivariate trees, which explicitly learn optimal split directions at internal nodes through penalized Ridge regression. This algorithm has been compared with other state-of-the-art classifiers through careful evaluation of performance measures not encountered in this field.