Sensor fusion based condition monitoring of induction motor using artificial intelligence techniques

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Sähkötekniikan korkeakoulu | Master's thesis
Date
2020-08-17
Department
Major/Subject
Electrical Power and Energy
Mcode
ELEC3024
Degree programme
AEE - Master’s Programme in Automation and Electrical Engineering (TS2013)
Language
en
Pages
49+11
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Abstract
Industries are proliferating, and the need for induction motors (IMs) plays an essential role in various technical and economic fields. Due to the excessive usage, several faults occur in the machine. It is imperative to detect faults at an early stage. Condition monitoring techniques can detect unexpected failures in the machine. Otherwise, they may cause massive losses for industries. Several methods have been investigated using a single sensor and signal-processing methods. However, using a single sensor does not facilitate in detecting different types of faults. Therefore, several current and vibrations sensors are used to identify various forms of defects. However, data derived from this approach is too vast and complicated. A number of artificial intelligence technologies are being used to solve this. The support vector machine (SVM) has been used for this thesis due to its excellent classification efficiency compared to other techniques. The main focus of the thesis is on the development of a sensor fusion-based approach for condition monitoring of IMs using SVM. This was achieved by adequately preprocessing the dataset, extracting the maximum number of features, choosing the suitable features, identifying the hyperparameters and designing the model. The thesis investigates three main processes: binary classification, multiclass classification, and sensor fusion. The algorithm's working condition has been checked in binary classification, and feature selection methods have been evaluated. The accuracy of different classes is monitored using a single sensor in a multiclass classification method. The sensor fusion approach has been used to test accuracy changes with the fusion process at the feature level. The fused multi-dimensional information is used to train a multiclass SVM with eight classes. Finally, the proposed approach is tested by current and vibration data. The results prove that the feature level fusion method has great potential in increasing the accuracy of fault diagnosis.
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Supervisor
Belahcen, Anouar
Thesis advisor
Nemat Saberi, Alireza
Keywords
condition monitoring, fault detection, induction motor, support vector machine
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