Clustering Analysis of Wind Turbine Alarm Sequences Based on Domain Knowledge-Fused Word2vec

The alarm data contain abundant fault information related to almost all components of the wind turbine. Reasonable analysis and utilization of alarm data can assist wind farm maintenance personnel in quickly identifying the types of turbine faults, reducing operation and maintenance costs. This paper proposes a clustering analysis method that groups similar alarm sequences with the same fault type. Firstly, the alarm data are preprocessed, where alarm sequences are segmented, and redundant alarms are removed. Then, a domain knowledge-fused Word2vec (DK-Wrod2vec) method is introduced to transform non-numeric alarm codes into numeric vector representations. Finally, new distance metrics are incorporated into the K-means clustering algorithm to improve clustering performance. The performance of the proposed clustering method is assessed by applying it to labeled alarm sequences. The results demonstrate that the clustering performance is the best when using DK-Word2vec and the word rotator’s distance compared with other methods. Additionally, with the optimal parameter combination, the fault types of unlabeled alarm sequences are also analyzed.