Vibration anomaly detection of wind turbine based on temporal convolutional network and support vector data description

Abstract

Due to the complex working conditions and harsh environment, wind turbines often encounter abnormalities, resulting in great operation and maintenance difficulties. As nacelle vibration signals reveal the structure's dynamic characteristics and the interaction between components, vibration anomaly detection has a strong potential. However, vibration anomaly detection is challenging due to the complex characteristics and non-stationarity of high dynamic nacelle vibration signals. To solve this problem, this paper proposed a semi-supervised vibration anomaly detection approach for wind turbines, combining deep learning and one-class classification. Firstly, a healthy behavior model (HBM) for predicting wind turbine nacelle vibration based on the temporal convolutional network (TCN) is developed. To use all available information, a Hilbert spectrum fusion technology (HSFT) was proposed to enhance model performance. Then, based on the support vector data description (SVDD) algorithm, we established a one-class classifier of vibration prediction residual and realized the vibration anomaly detection. The proposed approach can be trained on the healthy dataset to provide accurate detection of different abnormal types. The effectiveness of the proposed anomaly detection approach was verified on simulated and actual monitoring datasets.