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Early Fault Detection with Multi-target Neural Networks

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Wind power is seeing a strong growth around the world. At the same time, shrinking profit margins in the energy markets let wind farm managers explore options for cost reductions in the turbine operation and maintenance. Sensor-based condition monitoring facilitates remote diagnostics of turbine subsystems, enabling faster responses when unforeseen maintenance is required. Condition monitoring with data from the turbines’ supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems was proposed and SCADA-based fault detection and diagnosis approaches introduced based on single-task normal operation models of turbine state variables. As the number of SCADA channels has grown strongly, thousands of independent single-target models are in place today for monitoring a single turbine. Multi-target learning was recently proposed to limit the number of models. This study applied multi-target neural networks to the task of early fault detection in drive-train components. The accuracy and delay of detecting gear bearing faults were compared to state-of-the-art single-target approaches. We found that multi-target multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) detected faults at least as early and in many cases earlier than single-target MLPs. The multi-target MLPs could detect faults up to several days earlier than the single-target models. This can deliver a significant advantage in the planning and performance of maintenance work. At the same time, the multi-target MLPs achieved the same level of prediction stability.

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The author thanks Bernhard Brodbeck, Janine Maron, Dimitrios Anagnostos of WinJi AG, Switzerland, and Kaan Duran of Energie Baden-Wuerttemberg EnBW, Germany, for valuable discussions.

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Meyer, A. (2021). Early Fault Detection with Multi-target Neural Networks. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2021. ICCSA 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12951. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86970-0_30

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