Fault Detection of Wind Turbine Gearboxes Based on IBOA-ERF

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 22; no. 18; p. 6826
• Main Authors: Tang, Mingzhu, Cao, Chenhuan, Wu, Huawei, Zhu, Hongqiu, Tang, Jun, Peng, Zhonghui, Wang, Yifan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.09.2022; MDPI
• Subjects: Accuracy; Air-turbines; Algorithms; Alternative energy sources; butterfly optimization algorithm; Classification; Datasets; Decision trees; extreme random forest; Failure; fault detection; Fault location (Engineering); Feature selection; gearbox; Machine learning; Mechanical properties; Methods; Optimization algorithms; Testing; Turbines; Wavelet transforms; Wind farms; Wind power; wind turbine; China
• ISSN: 1424-8220; 1424-8220
• DOI: 10.3390/s22186826

As one of the key components of wind turbines, gearboxes are under complex alternating loads for a long time, and the safety and reliability of the whole machine are often affected by the failure of internal gears and bearings. Aiming at the difficulty of optimizing the parameters of wind turbine gearbox fault detection models based on extreme random forest, a fault detection model with extreme random forest optimized by the improved butterfly optimization algorithm (IBOA-ERF) is proposed. The algebraic sum of the false alarm rate and the missing alarm rate of the fault detection model is constructed as the fitness function, and the initial position and position update strategy of the individual are improved. A chaotic mapping strategy is introduced to replace the original population initialization method to enhance the randomness of the initial population distribution. An adaptive inertia weight factor is proposed, combined with the landmark operator of the pigeon swarm optimization algorithm to update the population position iteration equation to speed up the convergence speed and improve the diversity and robustness of the butterfly optimization algorithm. The dynamic switching method of local and global search stages is adopted to achieve dynamic balance between global exploration and local search, and to avoid falling into local optima. The ERF fault detection model is trained, and the improved butterfly optimization algorithm is used to obtain optimal parameters to achieve fast response of the proposed model with good robustness and generalization under high-dimensional data. The experimental results show that, compared with other optimization algorithms, the proposed fault detection method of wind turbine gearboxes has a lower false alarm rate and missing alarm rate.