Fault Diagnosis Method for Wind Turbine Gearbox Based on Image Characteristics Extraction and Actual Value Negative Selection Algorithm

Abstract

With the development of information theory and image analysis theory, the studies on fault diagnosis methods based on image processing have become a hot spot in the recent years in the field of fault diagnosis. The gearbox of wind turbine generator is a fault-prone subassembly. Its time frequency of vibration signals contains abundant status information, so this paper proposes a fault diagnosis method based on time-frequency image characteristic extraction and artificial immune algorithm. Firstly, obtain the time-frequency image using wavelet transform based on threshold denoising. Secondly, acquire time-frequency image characteristics by means of Hu invariant moment and correlation fusion gray-level co-occurrence matrix of characteristic value, thus, to extract the fault information of the gearing of wind turbine generator. Lastly, diagnose the fault type using the improved actual-value negative selection algorithm. The application of this method in the gear fault diagnosis on the test bed of wind turbine step-up gearbox proves that it is effective in the improvement of diagnosis accuracy.