Decision-level fusion based on wavelet decomposition for induction motor fault diagnosis using transient current signal

  • Authors:
  • Gang Niu;Achmad Widodo;Jong-Duk Son;Bo-Suk Yang;Don-Ha Hwang;Dong-Sik Kang

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Mechanical Engineering, Pukyong National University, San 100, Yongdang-dong, Nam-gu, Busan 608-739, South Korea;School of Mechanical Engineering, Pukyong National University, San 100, Yongdang-dong, Nam-gu, Busan 608-739, South Korea;School of Mechanical Engineering, Pukyong National University, San 100, Yongdang-dong, Nam-gu, Busan 608-739, South Korea;School of Mechanical Engineering, Pukyong National University, San 100, Yongdang-dong, Nam-gu, Busan 608-739, South Korea;Power Facility Diagnosis Research Group, Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute, Changwon, Gyungnam 641-120, South Korea;Power Facility Diagnosis Research Group, Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute, Changwon, Gyungnam 641-120, South Korea

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose and implement a decision-level fusion model by combining the information of multi-level wavelet decomposition for fault diagnosis of induction motor using transient stator current signal. Firstly, the start-up transient current signals are collected from different faulty motors. Then signal preprocessing is conducted containing smoothing and subtracting to reduce the influence of line frequency in transient current signals. Next, we employ discrete wavelet transform technique to decompose the preprocessed signals into different frequency ranges of products, and then features are extracted from decomposed detail components. Finally, two decision-level fusion strategies, Bayesian belief fusion and multi-agent fusion, are employed. That is, fault features are classified using several classifiers and generated decisions are fused using a specific fusion algorithm. The proposed approach is evaluated by an experiment of fault diagnosis for induction motors. Experiment results show that excellent diagnosis performance can be obtained.