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New sensor fusion techniques using artificial intelligence enable accurate predictive maintenance for brushless direct current (BLDC) motors. Combining vibration and sound data with deep learning models achieved 98.8% accuracy in diagnosing motor faults without manual feature engineering.

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  • Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Sensor Networks

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  • Meeting demands for flexibility, safety, and security requires advanced sensor networks.
  • Sensor data fusion enhances phenomenon representation, aiding analysis and decision-making, particularly for system degradation.
  • Predictive maintenance is crucial for industrial systems to prevent failures and optimize operations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate optimal sensor combinations and deep learning fusion algorithms for predictive maintenance.
  • To enable predictive maintenance by exploiting sensor data fusion and AI-based analysis.
  • To diagnose faults in brushless direct current (BLDC) motors using fused sensor data.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized raw vibration and sound data from microphones and accelerometers on a BLDC motor.
  • Employed data-level sensor fusion, merging individual sensor data for analysis.
  • Applied deep learning models: Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), and CNN-LSTM.

Main Results:

  • Individual sensor analysis showed sound signals outperformed vibration signals.
  • Data fusion significantly improved model accuracy without feature selection/extraction.
  • Achieved 98.8% accuracy with DCNN, 93.5% with CNN-LSTM, and 73.6% with LSTM using fused data.

Conclusions:

  • Deep learning methods with raw, fused sensor data can achieve high accuracy for BLDC motor fault diagnosis.
  • This approach bypasses time-consuming feature extraction and selection steps.
  • The achieved 98.8% accuracy represents a significant advancement in BLDC motor fault analysis.