Pub Date : 2022-06-29DOI: 10.36001/phme.2022.v7i1.3332
Zahra Taghiyarrenani, A. Berenji
Selecting the physical property capable of representing the health state of a machine is an important step in designing fault detection systems. In addition, variation of the loading condition is a challenge in deploying an industrial predictive maintenance solution. The robustness of the physical properties to variations in loading conditions is, therefore, an important consideration. In this paper, we focus specifically on squirrel cage induction motors and analyze the capabilities of three-phase current and five vibration signals acquired from different locations of the motor for the detection of Broken Rotor Bar generated in different loads. In particular, we examine the mentioned signals in relation to the performance of classifiers trained with them. Regarding the classifiers, we employ deep conventional classifiers and also propose a hybrid classifier that utilizes contrastive loss in order to mitigate the effect of different variations. The analysis shows that vibration signals are more robust under varying load conditions. Furthermore, the proposed hybrid classifier outperforms conventional classifiers and is able to achieve an accuracy of 90.96% when using current signals and 97.69% when using vibration signals.
{"title":"Analysis of Vibrations and Currents for Broken Rotor Bar Detection in Three-phase Induction Motors","authors":"Zahra Taghiyarrenani, A. Berenji","doi":"10.36001/phme.2022.v7i1.3332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36001/phme.2022.v7i1.3332","url":null,"abstract":"Selecting the physical property capable of representing the health state of a machine is an important step in designing fault detection systems. In addition, variation of the loading condition is a challenge in deploying an industrial predictive maintenance solution. The robustness of the physical properties to variations in loading conditions is, therefore, an important consideration. In this paper, we focus specifically on squirrel cage induction motors and analyze the capabilities of three-phase current and five vibration signals acquired from different locations of the motor for the detection of Broken Rotor Bar generated in different loads. In particular, we examine the mentioned signals in relation to the performance of classifiers trained with them. Regarding the classifiers, we employ deep conventional classifiers and also propose a hybrid classifier that utilizes contrastive loss in order to mitigate the effect of different variations. The analysis shows that vibration signals are more robust under varying load conditions. Furthermore, the proposed hybrid classifier outperforms conventional classifiers and is able to achieve an accuracy of 90.96% when using current signals and 97.69% when using vibration signals.","PeriodicalId":422825,"journal":{"name":"PHM Society European Conference","volume":"711 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123840545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-29DOI: 10.36001/phme.2022.v7i1.3344
R. Kulkarni, R. Giossi, Prapanpong Damsongsaeng, A. Qazizadeh, M. Berg
Intelligent fault identification of rail vehicles from onboard measurements is of utmost importance to reduce the operating and maintenance cost of high-speed vehicles. Early identification of vehicle faults responsible for an unsafe situation, such as the instable running of highspeed vehicles, is very important to ensure the safety of operating rail vehicles. However, this task is challenging because of the nonlinear dynamics associated with multiple subsystems of the rail vehicle. The task becomes more challenging with only accelerations recorded in the carbody where, nevertheless, sensor maintenance is significantly lower compared to axlebox accelerometers. This paper proposes a Temporal Convolution Network (TCN)-based intelligent fault detection algorithm to detect rail vehicle faults. In this investigation, the classifiers are trained and tested with the results of numerical simulations of a high-speed vehicle (200 km/h). The TCN based fault classification algorithm identifies the rail vehicle faults with 98.7% accuracy. The proposed method contributes towards digitalization of rail vehicle maintenance through condition-based and predictive maintenance.
{"title":"iVRIDA: intelligent Vehicle Running Instability Detection Algorithm for High-speed Rail Vehicles using Temporal Convolution Network – A Pilot Study","authors":"R. Kulkarni, R. Giossi, Prapanpong Damsongsaeng, A. Qazizadeh, M. Berg","doi":"10.36001/phme.2022.v7i1.3344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36001/phme.2022.v7i1.3344","url":null,"abstract":"Intelligent fault identification of rail vehicles from onboard measurements is of utmost importance to reduce the operating and maintenance cost of high-speed vehicles. Early identification of vehicle faults responsible for an unsafe situation, such as the instable running of highspeed vehicles, is very important to ensure the safety of operating rail vehicles. However, this task is challenging because of the nonlinear dynamics associated with multiple subsystems of the rail vehicle. The task becomes more challenging with only accelerations recorded in the carbody where, nevertheless, sensor maintenance is significantly lower compared to axlebox accelerometers. This paper proposes a Temporal Convolution Network (TCN)-based intelligent fault detection algorithm to detect rail vehicle faults. In this investigation, the classifiers are trained and tested with the results of numerical simulations of a high-speed vehicle (200 km/h). The TCN based fault classification algorithm identifies the rail vehicle faults with 98.7% accuracy. The proposed method contributes towards digitalization of rail vehicle maintenance through condition-based and predictive maintenance.","PeriodicalId":422825,"journal":{"name":"PHM Society European Conference","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124584765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-29DOI: 10.36001/phme.2022.v7i1.3323
M. Camargos, P. Angelov
Lithium-ion batteries are key energy storage elements in the context of environmental-aware energy systems representing a crucial technology to achieve the goal of zero carbon emission. Therefore, its conditions must be monitored to guarantee the safe and reliable operation of the systems that use these components. Furthermore, lithium-ion batteries’ prognostics and health management policies must cope with the nonlinear and time-varying nature of the complex electrochemical dynamics of battery degradation. This paper proposes an incremental-learning-based algorithm to estimate the State of Health (SoH) and the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of lithium-ion batteries based on measurement data streams. For this purpose, a two-layer framework is proposed based on incremental modeling of the SoH. In the first layer, a set of representative features are extracted from voltage and current data of partial charging and discharging cycles; these features are then used to train the proposed model in a recursive procedure to estimate the battery’s SoH. The second layer uses the capacity data for incremental learning of an Autoregressive (AR) model for the SoH, which will be used to propagate the battery’s degradation through time to make the RUL prediction. The proposed method was applied to two datasets for experimental evaluation, one from CALCE and another from NASA. The proposed framework was able to estimate the SoH of 8 different lithium-ion cells with an average percentage error below 1.5% for all scenarios, while the lifetime model predicted the cell’s RUL with a maximum average error of 25%.
{"title":"State of Health and Lifetime Prediction of Lithium-ion Batteries Using Self-learning Incremental Models","authors":"M. Camargos, P. Angelov","doi":"10.36001/phme.2022.v7i1.3323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36001/phme.2022.v7i1.3323","url":null,"abstract":"Lithium-ion batteries are key energy storage elements in the context of environmental-aware energy systems representing a crucial technology to achieve the goal of zero carbon emission. Therefore, its conditions must be monitored to guarantee the safe and reliable operation of the systems that use these components. Furthermore, lithium-ion batteries’ prognostics and health management policies must cope with the nonlinear and time-varying nature of the complex electrochemical dynamics of battery degradation. This paper proposes an incremental-learning-based algorithm to estimate the State of Health (SoH) and the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of lithium-ion batteries based on measurement data streams. For this purpose, a two-layer framework is proposed based on incremental modeling of the SoH. In the first layer, a set of representative features are extracted from voltage and current data of partial charging and discharging cycles; these features are then used to train the proposed model in a recursive procedure to estimate the battery’s SoH. The second layer uses the capacity data for incremental learning of an Autoregressive (AR) model for the SoH, which will be used to propagate the battery’s degradation through time to make the RUL prediction. The proposed method was applied to two datasets for experimental evaluation, one from CALCE and another from NASA. The proposed framework was able to estimate the SoH of 8 different lithium-ion cells with an average percentage error below 1.5% for all scenarios, while the lifetime model predicted the cell’s RUL with a maximum average error of 25%.","PeriodicalId":422825,"journal":{"name":"PHM Society European Conference","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123558415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-29DOI: 10.36001/phme.2022.v7i1.3357
Max Weigert
Due to their compact design and low number of wear parts, Brushless Direct Current (BLDC) motors are ideally suited for use in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In view of the growing areas of application and the increasing complexity of unmanned flight missions, the need for suitable safety mechanisms for the operation of technical components, such as BLDC motors, in unmanned aircraft drive trains is also increasing. The integration of redundant components analogous to manned aviation is often not possible for smaller unmanned aerial vehicles for weight reasons. Therefore, online-capable dynamic diagnosis and prognosis methods for monitoring safety-critical components of unmanned aircraft are subject of ongoing research. One major challenge in the development of data based condition monitoring approaches for safety critical components is the availability of operational data of degraded components. This often leads to an unbalanced database without sufficient information on components’ degradation behavior. In the presented work, this problem is approached by combining bench testing and simulation models. On a test rig, common degradation effects are recreated by targeted manipulation. This allows for a safe and expressive data acquisition of the components’ behavior. In order to reduce the material and time required to build up a sufficient database for condition monitoring with experimental data, the observable effects are replicated in a simulation. This provides the opportunity to create a large database with slight variations in simulation parameters and incorporated noise in the simulation. The BLDC motor manipulation on the test rig includes mechanical, electrical and magnetic manipulation. The effects of the manipulation are analyzed and their representation by parameters in the corresponding simulation is derived. The model is built in MATLAB Simulink and replicates both the electrical and physical behavior of the motor, as well as its commutation behavior. The established simulation data shall be used as a balanced dataset on which condition monitoring algorithms can be trained. This will allow for the comparison of various data based condition monitoring methods in the future. A remaining challenge lies in the time behavior of the analyzed degradation, which has not yet been explored in depth. The proposed approach might also be applied to further unmanned aerial vehicle components, such as servo motors.
{"title":"Approach to Condition Monitoring of BLDC Motors with Experimentally Validated Simulation Data","authors":"Max Weigert","doi":"10.36001/phme.2022.v7i1.3357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36001/phme.2022.v7i1.3357","url":null,"abstract":"Due to their compact design and low number of wear parts, Brushless Direct Current (BLDC) motors are ideally suited for use in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In view of the growing areas of application and the increasing complexity of unmanned flight missions, the need for suitable safety mechanisms for the operation of technical components, such as BLDC motors, in unmanned aircraft drive trains is also increasing. The integration of redundant components analogous to manned aviation is often not possible for smaller unmanned aerial vehicles for weight reasons. Therefore, online-capable dynamic diagnosis and prognosis methods for monitoring safety-critical components of unmanned aircraft are subject of ongoing research.\u0000One major challenge in the development of data based condition monitoring approaches for safety critical components is the availability of operational data of degraded components. This often leads to an unbalanced database without sufficient information on components’ degradation behavior.\u0000In the presented work, this problem is approached by combining bench testing and simulation models. On a test rig, common degradation effects are recreated by targeted manipulation. This allows for a safe and expressive data acquisition of the components’ behavior. In order to reduce the material and time required to build up a sufficient database for condition monitoring with experimental data, the observable effects are replicated in a simulation. This provides the opportunity to create a large database with slight variations in simulation parameters and incorporated noise in the simulation.\u0000The BLDC motor manipulation on the test rig includes mechanical, electrical and magnetic manipulation. The effects of the manipulation are analyzed and their representation by parameters in the corresponding simulation is derived. The model is built in MATLAB Simulink and replicates both the electrical and physical behavior of the motor, as well as its commutation behavior.\u0000The established simulation data shall be used as a balanced dataset on which condition monitoring algorithms can be trained. This will allow for the comparison of various data based condition monitoring methods in the future. A remaining challenge lies in the time behavior of the analyzed degradation, which has not yet been explored in depth. The proposed approach might also be applied to further unmanned aerial vehicle components, such as servo motors.","PeriodicalId":422825,"journal":{"name":"PHM Society European Conference","volume":"289 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123915296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-29DOI: 10.36001/phme.2022.v7i1.3331
Lukas Lodes, Alexander Schiendorfer
Machine Learning (ML), in particular classification with deep neural nets, can be applied to a variety of industrial tasks. It can augment established methods for controlling manufacturing processes such as statistical process control (SPC) to detect non-obvious patterns in high-dimensional input data. However, due to the widespread issue of model miscalibration in neural networks, there is a need for estimating the predictive uncertainty of these models. Many established approaches for uncertainty estimation output scores that are difficult to put into actionable insight. We therefore introduce the concept of certainty groups which distinguish the predictions of a neural network into the normal group and the certainty group. The certainty group contains only predictions with a very high accuracy that can be set up to 100%. We present an approach to compute these certainty groups and demonstrate our approach on two datasets from a PHM setting.
{"title":"Certainty Groups: A Practical Approach to Distinguish Confidence Levels in Neural Networks","authors":"Lukas Lodes, Alexander Schiendorfer","doi":"10.36001/phme.2022.v7i1.3331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36001/phme.2022.v7i1.3331","url":null,"abstract":"Machine Learning (ML), in particular classification with deep neural nets, can be applied to a variety of industrial tasks. It can augment established methods for controlling manufacturing processes such as statistical process control (SPC) to detect non-obvious patterns in high-dimensional input data. However, due to the widespread issue of model miscalibration in neural networks, there is a need for estimating the predictive uncertainty of these models. Many established approaches for uncertainty estimation output scores that are difficult to put into actionable insight. We therefore introduce the concept of certainty groups which distinguish the predictions of a neural network into the normal group and the certainty group. The certainty group contains only predictions with a very high accuracy that can be set up to 100%. We present an approach to compute these certainty groups and demonstrate our approach on two datasets from a PHM setting.","PeriodicalId":422825,"journal":{"name":"PHM Society European Conference","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115971545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-29DOI: 10.36001/phme.2022.v7i1.3368
C. Ruiz-Carcel, A. Starr, A. Francese
Modern rotorcrafts rely on Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS) to enhance their availability, reliability, and safety. In those systems, data related to the health of key mechanical components is acquired, in addition to typical flight condition history data such as speed and torque. Commercial HUM systems usually rely on vibration measurements to assess the condition of shafts, gears, and bearings; using techniques such as spectral analysis, harmonic analysis, vibration trend and others. Recent research has shown that acoustic emissions (AE) can be advantageous in the detection of mechanical faults, in particular detecting very early small defects on bearings and gears, providing extra time for maintenance planning. However, the addition of extra sensors adds complexity and weight to the HUMS system, which is undesirable. This research is an experimental study to assess the monitoring capabilities of a broadband sensor, able to cover both low frequency vibration components as well as ultrasonic events, hence combining the benefits of both in a single compact sensing unit. The experimental results obtained from an instrumented rig using healthy components as well as seeded faults show the ability of the sensor to detect high frequency events, and compares the performance of the sensor in the low frequency range with a commercial accelerometer.
{"title":"Experimental Assessment of a Broadband Vibration and Acoustic Emission Sensor for Rotorcraft Transmission Monitoring","authors":"C. Ruiz-Carcel, A. Starr, A. Francese","doi":"10.36001/phme.2022.v7i1.3368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36001/phme.2022.v7i1.3368","url":null,"abstract":"Modern rotorcrafts rely on Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS) to enhance their availability, reliability, and safety. In those systems, data related to the health of key mechanical components is acquired, in addition to typical flight condition history data such as speed and torque. Commercial HUM systems usually rely on vibration measurements to assess the condition of shafts, gears, and bearings; using techniques such as spectral analysis, harmonic analysis, vibration trend and others. Recent research has shown that acoustic emissions (AE) can be advantageous in the detection of mechanical faults, in particular detecting very early small defects on bearings and gears, providing extra time for maintenance planning. However, the addition of extra sensors adds complexity and weight to the HUMS system, which is undesirable. This research is an experimental study to assess the monitoring capabilities of a broadband sensor, able to cover both low frequency vibration components as well as ultrasonic events, hence combining the benefits of both in a single compact sensing unit. The experimental results obtained from an instrumented rig using healthy components as well as seeded faults show the ability of the sensor to detect high frequency events, and compares the performance of the sensor in the low frequency range with a commercial accelerometer.","PeriodicalId":422825,"journal":{"name":"PHM Society European Conference","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117349624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-29DOI: 10.36001/phme.2022.v7i1.3354
Chengwei Wang, I. Fan, Stephen King
This paper presents the different types of failure that may occur in flight control electrical actuation systems. Within an aircraft, actuation systems are essential to deliver physical actions. Large actuators operate the landing gears and small actuators adjust passenger seats. As developing, aircraft systems have become more electrical to reduce the weight and complexity of hydraulic circuits, which could improve fuel efficiency and lower NOx emissions. Electrical Actuation (EA) are one of those newly electrified systems. It can be categorized into two types, Electro-Hydraulic Actuation (EHA) and Electro-Mechanical Actuation (EMA) systems. Emerging electric and hydrogen fuel aircraft will rely on all-electric actuation. While electrical actuation seems simpler than hydraulic at the systems level, the subsystems and components are more varied and complex. The aim of the overall project is to develop a highly representative Digital Twin (DT) for predictive maintenance of electrical flight control systems. A comprehensive understanding of actuation system failure characteristics is fundamental for effective design and maintenance. This research focuses on the flight control systems including the ailerons, rudders, flaps, spoilers, and related systems. The study uses the Cranfield University Boeing 737 as the basis to elaborate the different types of actuators in the flight control system. The Aircraft Maintenance Manual (AMM) provides a baseline for current maintenance practices, effort, and costs. Equivalent EHA and EMA to replace the 737 systems are evaluated. In this paper, the components and their failure characteristics are elaborated in a matrix. The approach to model these characteristics in DT for aircraft flight control system health management is discussed. This paper contributes to the design, operation and support of aircraft systems.
{"title":"Failures Mapping for Aircraft Electrical Actuation System Health Management","authors":"Chengwei Wang, I. Fan, Stephen King","doi":"10.36001/phme.2022.v7i1.3354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36001/phme.2022.v7i1.3354","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the different types of failure that may occur in flight control electrical actuation systems. Within an aircraft, actuation systems are essential to deliver physical actions. Large actuators operate the landing gears and small actuators adjust passenger seats. As developing, aircraft systems have become more electrical to reduce the weight and complexity of hydraulic circuits, which could improve fuel efficiency and lower NOx emissions. Electrical Actuation (EA) are one of those newly electrified systems. It can be categorized into two types, Electro-Hydraulic Actuation (EHA) and Electro-Mechanical Actuation (EMA) systems. Emerging electric and hydrogen fuel aircraft will rely on all-electric actuation. While electrical actuation seems simpler than hydraulic at the systems level, the subsystems and components are more varied and complex. The aim of the overall project is to develop a highly representative Digital Twin (DT) for predictive maintenance of electrical flight control systems. A comprehensive understanding of actuation system failure characteristics is fundamental for effective design and maintenance. This research focuses on the flight control systems including the ailerons, rudders, flaps, spoilers, and related systems. The study uses the Cranfield University Boeing 737 as the basis to elaborate the different types of actuators in the flight control system. The Aircraft Maintenance Manual (AMM) provides a baseline for current maintenance practices, effort, and costs. Equivalent EHA and EMA to replace the 737 systems are evaluated. In this paper, the components and their failure characteristics are elaborated in a matrix. The approach to model these characteristics in DT for aircraft flight control system health management is discussed. This paper contributes to the design, operation and support of aircraft systems.","PeriodicalId":422825,"journal":{"name":"PHM Society European Conference","volume":"351 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121195527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-29DOI: 10.36001/phme.2022.v7i1.3328
Manuel S. Mathew, S. Kandukuri, C. Omlin
In this paper, we estimate the age-related performance degradation of a wind turbine working under Norwegian environment, based on a deep neural network model. Ten years of high-resolution operational data from a 2 MW wind turbine were used for the analysis. Operational data of the turbine, between cut-in and rated wind velocities, were considered, which were pre-processed to eliminate outliers and noises. Based on the SHapley Additive exPlanations of a preliminary performance model, a benchmark performance model for the turbine was developed with deep neural networks. An efficiency index is proposed to gauge the agerelated performance degradation of the turbine, which compares measured performances of the turbine over the years with corresponding bench marked performance. On an average, the efficiency index of the turbine is found to decline by 0.64 percent annually, which is comparable with the degradation patterns reported under similar studies from the UK and the US.
{"title":"Estimation of Wind Turbine Performance Degradation with Deep Neural Networks","authors":"Manuel S. Mathew, S. Kandukuri, C. Omlin","doi":"10.36001/phme.2022.v7i1.3328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36001/phme.2022.v7i1.3328","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we estimate the age-related performance degradation of a wind turbine working under Norwegian environment, based on a deep neural network model. Ten years of high-resolution operational data from a 2 MW wind turbine were used for the analysis. Operational data of the turbine, between cut-in and rated wind velocities, were considered, which were pre-processed to eliminate outliers and noises. Based on the SHapley Additive exPlanations of a preliminary performance model, a benchmark performance model for the turbine was developed with deep neural networks. An efficiency index is proposed to gauge the agerelated performance degradation of the turbine, which compares measured performances of the turbine over the years with corresponding bench marked performance. On an average, the efficiency index of the turbine is found to decline by 0.64 percent annually, which is comparable with the degradation patterns reported under similar studies from the UK and the US.","PeriodicalId":422825,"journal":{"name":"PHM Society European Conference","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122521993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-29DOI: 10.36001/phme.2022.v7i1.3372
Immo Schmidt, Lorenz Dingeldein, D. Hünemohr, Henrik Simon, Max Weigert
For the data challenge of the 2022 European PHM conference, data from a production line of electric circuit boards is provided to assess the quality of the produced components. The solution presented in this paper was elaborated to fulfill the data challenge objectives of predicting defects found in an automatic inspection at the end of the production line, predicting the result of a following human inspection and predicting the result of the repair of the defect components. Machine learning methods are used to accomplish the different prediction tasks. In order to build a reliable machine learning model, the steps of data preparation, feature engineering and model selection are performed. Finally, different models are chosen and implemented for the different sub-tasks. The prediction of defects in the automatic inspection is modeled with a multi-layer perceptron neural network, the prediction of human inspection is modeled using a random forest algorithm. For the prediction of human repair, a decision tree is implemented.
{"title":"Application of Machine Learning Methods to Predict the Quality of Electric Circuit Boards of a Production Line","authors":"Immo Schmidt, Lorenz Dingeldein, D. Hünemohr, Henrik Simon, Max Weigert","doi":"10.36001/phme.2022.v7i1.3372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36001/phme.2022.v7i1.3372","url":null,"abstract":"For the data challenge of the 2022 European PHM conference, data from a production line of electric circuit boards is provided to assess the quality of the produced components. The solution presented in this paper was elaborated to fulfill the data challenge objectives of predicting defects found in an automatic inspection at the end of the production line, predicting the result of a following human inspection and predicting the result of the repair of the defect components. Machine learning methods are used to accomplish the different prediction tasks. In order to build a reliable machine learning model, the steps of data preparation, feature engineering and model selection are performed. Finally, different models are chosen and implemented for the different sub-tasks. The prediction of defects in the automatic inspection is modeled with a multi-layer perceptron neural network, the prediction of human inspection is modeled using a random forest algorithm. For the prediction of human repair, a decision tree is implemented.","PeriodicalId":422825,"journal":{"name":"PHM Society European Conference","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126496587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-29DOI: 10.36001/phme.2022.v7i1.3322
Eli Gildish, M. Grebshtein, Y. Aperstein, Alex Kushnirski, Igor Makienko
The existing helicopter Health and Usage Management Systems (HUMS) collect and process flight operational parameters and sensors data such as vibrations to provide health monitoring of the helicopter dynamic assemblies and engines. So far, structure-related mechanical faults, such as looseness in bolted structures, have not been addressed by vibration-based condition monitoring in existing HUMS systems. Bolt loosening was identified as a potential risk to flight safety demanding periodical visual monitoring, and increased maintenance and repair expenses. Its automatic identification in helicopters by using vibration measurements is challenging due to the limited number of known events and the presence of high-energy vibrations originating in rotating parts, which shadow the low-level signals generated by the bolt loosening. New developed bolt loosening monitoring approach was tested on HUMS vibrations data recorded from the IAF AH-64 Apache helicopters fleet. ML-based unsupervised anomaly detection was utilized in order to address the limited number of faulty cases. The predictive power of health features was significantly improved by applying the Harmonic filtering differentiating between the high-energy vibrations generated by rotating parts compared with the low-energy structural vibrations. Different unsupervised anomaly detection techniques were examined on the dataset. The experimental results demonstrate that the developed approach enable successful bolt loosening monitoring in helicopters and can potentially be used in other health monitoring applications.
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