An Investigative Study into Observer based Non-Invasive Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Induction Motors

A new observer based fault detection and diagnosis scheme for predicting induction motors- faults is proposed in this paper. Prediction of incipient faults, using different variants of Kalman filter and their relative performance are evaluated. Only soft faults are considered for this work. The data generation, filter convergence issues, hypothesis testing and residue estimates are addressed. Simulink model is used for data generation and various types of faults are considered. A comparative assessment of the estimates of different observers associated with these faults is included.

Authors:

• Padmakumar S.
• Vivek Agarwal
• Kallol Roy

Keywords:

• Extended Kalman Filter
• Fault detection and diagnosis
• Induction motor model
• Unscented Kalman Filter

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