Data-driven fault diagnosis of oil rig motor pumps applying automatic definition and selection of features

Abstract

We report about fault diagnosis experiments to improve the maintenance quality of motor pumps installed on oil rigs. We rely on the data-driven approach to the learning of the fault classes, i.e. supervised learning in pattern recognition. Features are extracted from the vibration signals to detect and diagnose misalignment and mechanical looseness problems. We show the results of automatic pattern recognition methods to define and select features that describe the faults of the provided examples. The support vector machine is chosen as the classification architecture.