A soft sensor for measuring the wear of an induction motor bearing by the park’s vector components of current and voltage

Abstract

This paper presents a methodology for creating a soft sensor for predicting the bearing wear of electrical machines. The technique is based on a combination of Park vector methods and a classifier based on an artificial neural network (ANN‐classifier). Experiments are carried out in la-boratory conditions on an asynchronous motor of AIR132M4 brand. For the experiment, the inner rings of the bearing are artificially degraded. The filtered and processed data obtained from the installation are passed through the ANN‐classifier. A method of providing the data into the classi-fier is shown. The result is a convergence of 99% and an accuracy of 98% on the test data.