Fault detection and isolation in electrical machines using deep neural networks

Abstract

Condition and health monitoring of electrical machines during dynamic loading is a common, yet challenging problem in main battle tanks. Existing methods address this issue by extracting various features which are subsequently used in a classifier to isolate faults. However, this approach relies on the feature set being extracted and therefore most of the time does not provide expected accuracy in identification of faults. In this work, we have used convolution neural network that utilises the original time domain measurements for fault detection and isolation (FDI). Results from experimental studies indicate that the proposed approach can perform FDI with more than 95\% accuracy using commonly available current measurements.