Title
A Wind Turbine Fault Detection Approach Based on Cluster Analysis and Frequent Pattern Mining.
Abstract
Wind energy has proven its viability by the emergence of countless wind turbines around the world which greatly contribute to the increased electrical generating capacity of wind farm operators. These infrastructures are usually deployed in not easily accessible areas; therefore, maintenance routines should be based on a well-guided decision so as to minimize cost. To aid operators prior to the maintenance process, a condition monitoring system should be able to accurately reflect the actual state of the wind turbine and its major components in order to execute specific preventive measures using as little resources as possible. In this paper, we propose a fault detection approach which combines cluster analysis and frequent pattern mining to accurately reflect the deteriorating condition of a wind turbine and to indicate the components that need attention. Using SCADA data, we extracted operational status patterns and developed a rule repository for monitoring wind turbine systems. Results show that the proposed scheme is able to detect the deteriorating condition of a wind turbine as well as to explicitly identify faulty components.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.3837/tiis.2014.02.0020
KSII TRANSACTIONS ON INTERNET AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Condition Monitoring System,Wind Turbine,SCADA,cluster analysis,frequent pattern mining
Journal
8
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
1976-7277
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.93
1
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Frank Elijorde151.61
Sungho Kim221924.80
Jaewan Lee36214.66