State degradation evaluation and early fault identification of wind turbine bearings

Abstract

To solve the shortage of state degradation characteristic and evaluation parameters in the monitoring of the running state of wind turbine bearings, and the low accuracy of early fault identification, a state degradation characteristic index, which combines multi-scale weighted permutation entropy (MWPE) and local linear embedding algorithm (LLE), is proposed for performance degradation monitoring and early fault identification of wind turbine bearings. The degradation index is quantitatively evaluated by four evaluation parameters: the initial time of state degradation, the sensitivity of initial degradation, the failure mutability and the consistency of degradation trend. Through the full cycle acceleration life monitoring data of the bearings, the result show that the proposed MWPE LLE degradation index can effectively characterize the whole process of bearing life cycle from stable operation to degradation to failure. Compared with the quantitative evaluation result of the kernel principal component analysis (KPCA), weighted permutation entropy (WPE), the root mean square (RMS) and kurtosis index, the comprehensive expression ability of MWPE-LLE degradation index is better. It can not only accurately capture the mutation time of state degradation, but also detect the initial degradation time in advance of the four kinds of characteristic indexes, and accurately judge the failure type of the early failure of the test bearing, and the judgment result is consistent with the inspection result after the experiment.