Wind turbines fault diagnosis method under variable working conditions based on AMVMD and deep discrimination transfer learning network

Abstract

With the wide application of wind turbines, the bearing fault diagnosis of wind turbines has become a research hotspot. Under complex variable working conditions, the vibration signals of bearing components show non-stationary characteristics. Therefore, it is challenging to extract fault features using typical fault diagnosis methods. This paper proposes Adaptive Multivariate Variational Mode Decomposition combined with an improved Deep Discrimination Transfer Learning Network (AMVMD-IDDTLN) for bearing fault diagnosis of wind turbines under variable working conditions. First, the AMVMD method is used for the adaptive decomposition of the original signal, and use SE-ResNet18 convolutional neural network to obtain the transfer features of the source domain and target domain. Then, marginal distribution differences and conditional differences are assessed by DDM measures. The whole model is optimized by cross-entropy and improved joint distribution adaptation loss function, and the identification and classification of cross-working fault characteristics of the wind turbine- bearings are realized. The model achieves 99.48% transfer learning for the ten classifications of CWRU data set, 97% transfer learning for the four classifications of UPB data set, and 90% transfer learning for wind turbine bearing data across working conditions and across equipment. It is concluded that: Compared with similar models, the AMVMD-IDDTLN model proposed in this paper has higher diagnostic accuracy and faster convergence rate, which has certain practicality.