An unsupervised spatiotemporal graphical modeling approach for wind turbine condition monitoring

Wenguang Yang, Chao Liu and Dongxiang Jiang

Renewable Energy, 2018, vol. 127, issue C, 230-241

Abstract: The vast installment of wind turbines and the development of condition monitoring system provides large amounts of operational data for condition monitoring and health management, while the lack of labeled data becomes one of the major challenges for the data analytics. To address this issue, this work presents an unsupervised anomaly detection approach for wind turbine condition monitoring, where a spatiotemporal graphical modeling method, spatiotemporal pattern network (STPN), is applied to extract the spatial and temporal features between the variables in the system, and an energy-based model, stacked Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) is used to capture the system-wide patterns and then applied for condition monitoring. Case studies on three data sets are carried out including: (1) anomaly detection on a benchmark model for fault detection and isolation, (2) anomaly detection on an experimental data set with the normal condition and 11 fault conditions and (3) online condition monitoring using real data from a wind farm in northwest China. The results show that the proposed approach is capable of detecting the anomalies without the need for labeling data.

Keywords: Wind turbine; Unsupervised condition monitoring; Spatiotemporal graphical modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2018.04.059

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