scholarly journals Improved Ensemble Learning for Wind Turbine Main Bearing Fault Diagnosis

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (16) ◽  
pp. 7523
Author(s):  
Mattia Beretta ◽  
Yolanda Vidal ◽  
Jose Sepulveda ◽  
Olga Porro ◽  
Jordi Cusidó
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Wind Turbines ◽  
Fault Prediction ◽  
Main Bearing ◽  
Bearing Fault ◽  
Detection Model ◽  
Bearing Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Normal Behavior ◽  
Wind Park ◽  
Isolation Forest

The goal of this paper is to develop, implement, and validate a methodology for wind turbines’ main bearing fault prediction based on an ensemble of an artificial neural network (normality model designed at turbine level) and an isolation forest (anomaly detection model designed at wind park level) algorithms trained only on SCADA data. The normal behavior and the anomalous samples of the wind turbines are identified and several interpretable indicators are proposed based on the predictions of these algorithms, to provide the wind park operators with understandable information with enough time to plan operations ahead and avoid unexpected costs. The stated methodology is validated in a real underproduction wind park composed by 18 wind turbines.

scholarly journals Rolling Bearing Fault Prediction Method Based on QPSO-BP Neural Network and Dempster–Shafer Evidence Theory

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 1094 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lanjun Wan ◽  
Hongyang Li ◽  
Yiwei Chen ◽  
Changyun Li
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Bp Neural Network ◽  
Evidence Theory ◽  
Prediction Method ◽  
Rolling Bearing ◽  
Fault Prediction ◽  
Fault Classification ◽  
Bearing Fault ◽  
Hidden Layer

To effectively predict the rolling bearing fault under different working conditions, a rolling bearing fault prediction method based on quantum particle swarm optimization (QPSO) backpropagation (BP) neural network and Dempster–Shafer evidence theory is proposed. First, the original vibration signals of rolling bearing are decomposed by three-layer wavelet packet, and the eigenvectors of different states of rolling bearing are constructed as input data of BP neural network. Second, the optimal number of hidden-layer nodes of BP neural network is automatically found by the dichotomy method to improve the efficiency of selecting the number of hidden-layer nodes. Third, the initial weights and thresholds of BP neural network are optimized by QPSO algorithm, which can improve the convergence speed and classification accuracy of BP neural network. Finally, the fault classification results of multiple QPSO-BP neural networks are fused by Dempster–Shafer evidence theory, and the final rolling bearing fault prediction model is obtained. The experiments demonstrate that different types of rolling bearing fault can be effectively and efficiently predicted under various working conditions.

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