Anomaly detection in wind turbine blades based on PCA and convolutional kernel transform models: employing multivariate SCADA time series analysis

Abstract

With the widespread application of wind power technology, the detection of abnormalities in wind turbine blades has become a key research area. The use of data from monitoring and data acquisition (SCADA) systems for data-driven fault detection research presents new challenges. This study utilizes short-term SCADA data from wind turbine generators to classify the blade abnormal and normal operational states, thereby introducing a new method called PCABSMMR. This strategy integrates principal component analysis (PCA) and borderline-synthetic minority over-sampling technique (Borderline-SMOTE) for data processing and utilizes an improved multi-dimensional time series classification (MTSC) model. It combines one-dimensional convolution from deep learning with shallow learning’s rigid classifiers. PCA is used for dimensionality reduction, while Borderline-SMOTE expands the samples of minority class fault instances. Comparative analysis with various methods shows that the proposed method has an average F1-score of 0.98, outperforming many state-of-the-art MTSC models across various evaluation metrics.