Convolutional neural network framework for wind turbine electromechanical fault detection |
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Authors: | Emilie Stone Stefano Giani Donatella Zappalá Christopher Crabtree |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Engineering, Durham University, Durham, UK;2. Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | Effective and timely health monitoring of wind turbine gearboxes and generators is essential to reduce the costs of operations and maintenance activities, especially offshore. This paper presents a scalable and lightweight convolutional neural network (CNN) framework using high-dimensional raw condition monitoring data for the automatic detection of multiple wind turbine electromechanical faults. The proposed approach leverages the potential of combining information from a variety of signals to learn features and to discriminate the types of fault and their severity. As a result of the CNN layers used to extract features from the signals, this architecture works in the time domain and can digest high-resolution multi-sensor data streams in real-time. To overcome the inherent black-box nature of AI models, this research proposes two interpretability techniques, multidimensional scaling and layer-wise relevance propagation, to analyse the proposed model's inner-working and identify the signal features relevant for fault classification. Experimental results show high performance and classification accuracies above 99.9% for all fault cases tested, demonstrating the efficacy of the proposed fault-detection system. |
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Keywords: | condition monitoring convolutional neural network deep learning fault detection gearbox generator multi-sensor data |
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