Vibration Fault Diagnosis for Wind Turbine Based on Enhanced Supervised Locally Linear Embedding

Abstract

Fault diagnosis for wind turbine is an important task for reducing their maintenance cost. However, the non-stationary dynamic operating conditions of wind turbines pose a challenge to fault diagnosis for wind turbine. Fault diagnosis is essentially a kind of pattern recognition. In this paper, a novel fault diagnosis method based on enhanced supervised locally linear embedding is proposed for wind turbine. The approach first performs the recently proposed manifold learning algorithm locally linear embedding on the high-dimensional fault signal samples to learn the intrinsic embedded multiple manifold features corresponding to different fault modes. Enhanced supervised locally linear embedding not only can map them into a low-dimensional embedded space to achieve fault feature extraction, but also can deal with new fault samples. Finally fault classification is carried out in the embedded manifold space. The wind turbine gearbox ball bearing vibration fault signals are used to validate the proposed fault diagnosis method. The results indicate that the proposed approach obviously improves the fault classification performance and outperforms the other traditional approaches.