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Area of Science:

  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Data Science

Background:

  • Wind turbines require robust fault diagnosis for operational efficiency and safety.
  • Traditional power signal analysis is insufficient for detecting mechanical faults in wind turbines.
  • Integrating vibration analysis with other sensor data enhances diagnostic capabilities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a multi-sensory system for wind turbine fault diagnosis.
  • To compare the performance of Support Vector Machines (SVMs) with Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) for fault classification.
  • To identify the most effective data-mining techniques for analyzing wind turbine operational states.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a multi-sensory system incorporating accelerometers for vibration analysis and electrical, torque, and speed measurements.
  • Applied angular resampling techniques to process vibration signals.
  • Employed Support Vector Machines (SVMs) with various kernels (linear, polynomial, RBF, custom) for data classification.
  • Validated the system on a test-bed simulating wind turbine misalignment and imbalance faults.

Main Results:

  • The multi-sensory system effectively diagnosed simulated misalignment and imbalance faults in wind turbines.
  • Linear kernel SVM achieved higher accuracy and faster training/tuning times compared to other SVM kernels and Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs).
  • Experimental analysis confirmed the suitability and superior performance of linear SVM, indicating linearly separable datasets.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed multi-sensory system, coupled with linear SVM, offers an efficient and accurate solution for wind turbine fault diagnosis.
  • Linear SVM is a highly effective tool for classifying wind turbine operational states, outperforming more complex models in this application.
  • The findings suggest that data acquisition techniques generating linearly separable datasets are advantageous for SVM-based fault diagnosis in wind turbines.