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Abstract

In the last few years, induction motor fault detection has provoked great interest among researchers because it is a fundamental element of the electric-power industry, manufacturing enterprise, and services. Hence, considerable efforts have been carried out on developing reliable, low-cost procedures for fault diagnosis in induction motors (IM) since the early detection of any failure may prevent the machine from suffering a catastrophic damage. Therefore, many methodologies based on the IM startup transient current analysis have been proposed whose major disadvantages are the high mathematical complexity and demanding computational cost for their development. In this study, a straightforward procedure was introduced for identifying and classifying faults in IM. The proposed approach is based on the analysis of the startup transient current signal through the current signal homogeneity and the fourth central moment (kurtosis) analysis. These features are used for training a feed-forward, backpropagation artificial neural network used as a classifier. From experimentally obtained results, it was demonstrated that the brought-in scheme attained high certainty in recognizing and discriminating among five induction motor conditions, i.e., a motor in good physical condition (HLT), a motor with one broken rotor bar (1BRB), a motor with two broken rotor bars (2BRB), a motor with damage on the bearing outer race (BRN), and a motor with an unbalanced mechanical load (UNB).

Details

Title
Multiple Fault Detection in Induction Motors through Homogeneity and Kurtosis Computation
Author
Martinez-Herrera, Ana L; Ferrucho-Alvarez, Edna R; Ledesma-Carrillo, Luis M  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Mata-Chavez, Ruth I  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Lopez-Ramirez, Misael  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Cabal-Yepez, Eduardo  VIAFID ORCID Logo 
First page
1541
Publication year
2022
Publication date
2022
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
19961073
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2632721652
Copyright
© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.