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To cite this article: Anjali Jawadekar, Sudhir Paraskar, Saurabh Jadhav & Gajanan Dhole (2014)
Artificial neural network-based induction motor fault classifier using continuous wavelet transform,
Systems Science & Control Engineering, 2:1, 684-690, DOI: 10.1080/21642583.2014.956266
2014 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Accepted author version posted online: 09
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Published online: 09 Oct 2014.
Artificial neural network-based induction motor fault classifier using continuous wavelet
transform
Anjali Jawadekara , Sudhir Paraskara , Saurabh Jadhava and Gajanan Dholeb
a Department of Electrical Engineering, S.S.G.M. College of Engineering Shegaon, Maharashtra 44203, India; b Technical Consultant,
Pune, Maharashtra, India
(Received 18 November 2013; final version received 16 August 2014 )
Induction motors are used in industrial, commercial and residential applications because they have considerable merits over
other types of electric motors. These motors are used in various operating stresses that give rise to faults. Most recurrent
faults in induction motors are bearing faults, stator interturn faults and cracked rotor bars. Early detection of induction motor
faults is crucial for their reliable and economical operation. This could be done by motor monitoring, incipient fault detection
and diagnosis. In many situations, failure of critically loaded machine can shut down an entire industry process. This growing
demand for high-quality and low-cost production has increased the need for automated manufacturing systems with eective
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monitoring and control capabilities. Condition monitoring and fault diagnosis of an induction motor are of great importance
in the production line. It can reduce the cost of maintenance and risk of unexpected failures by allowing the early detection of
catastrophic failures. This work documents experimental results for multiple fault detection in induction motors using signal-
processing and articial neural network-based approaches. Motor line currents recorded under various fault conditions were
analyzed using continuous wavelet transform. A feedforward neural network was used for fault characterization based on
fault features extracted using continuous wavelet transform.
Keywords: articial neural networks; continuous wavelet transform; induction motor; multiple fault detection
bars in the rotor of an induction motor. For diagnosing online fault diagnosis. Signal processing is an important
stator interturn fault in three-phase induction motors using issue in machine condition monitoring. This includes time
Parks vector technique is described in Cardoso, Cruz, and domain, frequency domain and time, frequency domain
Fonseca (1999). Induction motor with stator interturn fault analyses. Since time domain and frequency domain anal-
is represented as an unsymmetrical three-phase system. In yses are limited to the analysis of stationary signals under
the power system, an unsymmetrical three-phase system a sinusoidal power supply condition. Whereas wavelet
can be modeled as a combination of three symmetrical transform can be eective in analyzing stationary and non-
systems, namely, positive, negative and zero sequence. stationary signals under a non-sinusoidal supply condition.
Most researchers have attempted to detect interturn fault Wavelet transform is a kind of eective time frequency-
by means of calculating negative sequence current (Kli- processing tool, among them continuous wavelet transform
man, Premerlani, Koegl, & Hoeweler, 1996; Kohler, Sot- (CWT) has superiorities of random wavelet base selec-
tile, & Trutt, 1992) and negative and zero sequence tion, ner time-scale resolution and time invariance. In this
impedances (Lee, Tallan, & Habetler, 2003; Sottile and research work, CWT is proposed for feature extraction.
Kohler, 1992). The interturn fault diagnostic method based CWT can give the user to analyze the signal at any scale,
on the pendulous oscillation concept has been introduced at any time translation. Any wavelet that satises the min-
in Mirafzal, Povinelli, and Demerdash (2006). Dierent imum criteria can be used for feature extraction and easily
approaches for motor incipient fault detection and diag- detects direction and orientation. In the present work the
nosis have been successfully proposed (Acosta, Verucchi, Morlet wavelet is used for feature extraction. The CWT
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& Gelso, 2006; Ballal, Khan, Suryawanshi, & Sonolikar, approach applies to the motor current signals recorded with
2007; Bouibed, Seddiki, Guelton, & Akdag, 2014; Faiz, the help of the data acquisition system for healthy and
Ebrahimi, Akin, & Tloiyat, 2008; Farahani, Zare Bidaki, various fault conditions such as stator interturn, bearing
& Enshaeieh, 2014). Most of these techniques involve fault and rotor bar crack. Minimum values of CWT coe-
vibration analysis and stator current analysis because they cients are selected as inputs to the articial neural network
are easy to measure and are highly reliable. However, (ANN). The ANN is a functional imitation of the brain,
vibration analysis requires expensive sensors and special which simulates the human decision and draws conclu-
signal-processing tools. In the current monitoring tech- sions, even when presented with complex noisy irrelevant
nique, no additional sensors are required. Because volt- information. The obtained results demonstrate the suitabil-
age and current signals are the basic quantities associated ity of the proposed technique for multiple fault detection in
with the electric machines and are readily measured with an induction motor achieving 100% accuracy.
the help of potential and current transformers that are
already installed in the protection system. In the proposed
work, current signals are considered for induction motor 2. Continuous wavelet transform
fault diagnosis. The use of wavelet transform is particularly appropriate
With the development of Articial Intelligence (AI) since it gives information about the signal in frequency and
systems, expert systems based on neural network, fuzzy time domain. Let f (x) be the signal, the CWT of f (x) is
logic have been employed in order to assist the fault then dened as
detection task for correctly interpreting the faulty data
(Filippetti, Franceschini, Tassoni, & Vas, 2004; Tung, Wf (a, b) = f (x)ab (x) dx, (1)
Yang, Oh, & Tan, 2009; Yang, Han, & Sukin, 2004).
Thus, it can be summarized that there are countless tech- where (*) indicates the complex conjugate
niques for diagnosis of specic induction motor faults,
most of them performed oine, arising the necessity for 1 xb
ab (x) = a, b R, a = 0. (2)
a generalized technique that allows online multiple fault |a| a
detection.
Popularity and widespread use of many modern fault And it provides the admissibility condition as follows:
diagnosis techniques are hindered by cost and compu-
|()|2
tational complexities and require the use of accurate, C = d < . (3)
eective, economically viable technique that uses avail- 0
able monitoring devices, combined with modern signal And for this reason
conditioning and data-processing tools for monitoring
faults in an induction motor. Therefore, a low-cost online
(x) dx = 0. (4)
non-destructive fault diagnosis and detection system is
demanded to provide accurate assessment of motor faults.
The proposed work presents experimental results for Here, () is the Fourier transform of (x). The
detection of multiple faults in an induction motor. The admissibility condition implies that the Fourier transform
algorithm proposed can be eectively implemented for of (x) vanishes at zero frequency. Therefore, is called
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Stator current(Amp)
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Figure 3. (a) Current signals for healthy condition. (b) Current signals for bearing fault. (c) Current signals for interturn fault. (d) Current
signals for rotor bar crack.
approximately 7080 turns. Spring and belt arrangement operation of motor are used in experimental studies. The
is used for mechanical loading of the motor. The motor motor is tted with dierent combinations of bearings hav-
was loaded at 75% of full load to full load conditions. To ing an inner race or outer race defects. Stator currents and
acquire the data, the Tektronix DSO, TPS 2014 B, with 100 voltages for each combination of bearing are captured to
MHz bandwidth and an adjustable sampling rate of 1 GHz compare it with the healthy bearing condition. Dierent
is used to capture the current and voltage signals. The Tek- experiments were conducted with dierent combinations
tronix current probes of rating 100 mV/A, input range of of rear side and load side bearings to access the perfor-
070 Amps AC RMS, 100A peak and frequency range DC mance of bearings and its eect on the performance of the
to 100 kHz are used to acquire the stator current signals. motor.
Approximately, 500 sets of signals were captured at dier-
ent load conditions and at dierent main supply conditions 4.3. Stator interturn short circuit
for the following case studies.
In this case of study, stator windings of induction motor
were modied to have several accessible tapings that can
4.1. Healthy be used to introduce short circuits. For this experimentation
2 H.P motor is fed by three-phase balanced supply load phase A is tapped, where each tapping is made after 10
on the motor is varied from 75% of full load to full load turns. Dierent experimentations were conducted with 10
with spring and belt arrangement. Stator current signals turns, 20 turns and 30 turns short circuited in phase A of
and phase voltages are captured for no load 75% of full motor and for dierent loading conditions phase voltage
load and at full load conditions. and stator current signals are captured.
4.2. Bearing defects (inner and outer race) 4.4. Broken rotor bars
Motor under test comprises two bearing numbers 6204 and The induction motor under test has 32 rotor bars, to carry
6205. Bearings having natural defects caused by regular out the rotor broken bar test, two rotor bars are broken
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Figure 4. (a): CWT spectrum for Healthy condition. (b) CWT spectrum for bearing fault. (c) CWT spectrum for interturn fault. (d) CWT
spectrum for rotor bar crack.
on both sides of end rings and stator current signals are it has the best time frequency localization in the sense
captured at dierent loading conditions. specied by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Current
Figure 3(a)(d) shows the stator current signals signals recorded under normal and various fault condi-
recorded from the motor terminals at full load during tions of induction motor are used to get CWT spectra as
normal and under various fault conditions. shown in Figure 4. These CWT spectra are obtained at dif-
ferent scales such as 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50. These scale
levels are found after a number of tests to get distinc-
5. Feature extraction using CWT tive attributes from analyzing signals. There are certainly
Current signals recorded for abnormal conditions of motor observable dierences among CWT plots of healthy and
are similar to normal motor signals, thus data acquired in faulty motor conditions. This is also reected in minimum
time domain that do not reveal any information that can values of CWT coecients. The minimum value of these
be used for fault detection. There is a need to come up with coecients is computed and fed as an input to the ANN for
feature extraction. The nonstationary nature of fault signals classifying the dierent faults.
encouraged the use of CWT to be used in this work. The
CWT has been eectively used in time frequency trans-
formations of nonstationary waves in the power system 6. Results and discussion
for fault diagnosis. Choosing a proper wavelet family is An ANN with its excellent pattern recognition capabilities
very important. If an improper wavelet family is chosen, can be eectively employed for the fault classication of an
it will make the wavelet transform complex and dicult. induction motor. In this paper, three-layer FFANN is used
In the present study, the Morlet wavelet is selected as and trained with a supervised learning algorithm called
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Table 1. Comparative analysis of articial neural net- For generalization, randomized data are fed to the network.
works with various transfer functions for 7 PE. Various transfer functions such as TanhAxon, Sigmoid
Percentage Axon, Linear TanhAxon and SoftMaxAxon are used for
classication training the network and percentage accuracy of classica-
S. no. Transfer function accuracy (%) tion is obtained. For all transfer functions, the considered
01 Sigmoid Axon 69
network is trained with maximum epochs of 100, training
02 Linear TanhAxon 80.25 data assumed is 60%, testing data, 40% step size = 0.1 and
03 SoftMax Axon 83.75 momentum of 0.7. The minimum squared error is consid-
04 BiasAxon 95 ered as a discriminating factor for the classication of dif-
05 TanhAxon 100 ferent conditions of the motor. With these assumptions the
percentage accuracy of classication for induction motor
under healthy, bearing fault, interturn fault and broken
back propagation. FFANN consists of one input layer, one rotor bar conditions with respect to the number of pro-
hidden layer and one output layer. The input layer consists cessing elements in the hidden layer is obtained. Figure 5
of 15 processing elements which correspond to a mini- represents the feedforward neural network used for fault
mum value of CWT coecients of the stator current for classication. Table 1 gives the comparative analysis of
a scaling factor of 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50. The output layer classication accuracy obtained with various transfer func-
consists of four processing elements representing healthy tions. Figure 6(a) shows variations of percentage accuracy
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condition, bearing fault, interturn fault and rotor bar crack. of classication with respect to the number of processing
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
(e)
Figure 6. (a) Percentage accuracy for Sigmoid Axon transfer function. (b) Percentage accuracy for linear TanhAxon transfer function.
(c) Percentage accuracy for SoftMaxAxon transfer function. (d) Percentage accuracy for BiasAxon transfer function. (e) Percentage
accuracy for TanhAxon transfer function.
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