Incipient Fault Diagnosis for DC-DC Converter Based on Multi-Dimensional Feature Fusion

To effectively recognize the incipient potential faults caused by degradation of multiple components in DC-DC converters, a fault diagnosis method that involves multi-dimensional feature fusion and sensitive feature extraction is proposed. Firstly, the time-domain statistical characteristics of fault and normal samples are extracted. The KL divergence and normalized kurtosis of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) between them are calculated by empirical mode decomposition (EMD). In order to further improve the feature discrimination, a sensitive feature extraction method based on Mahalanobis distance (SFMD) is designed to screen out the key features. Finally, the sensitive features are used to construct the SA-LSSVM (Simulated annealing-Least squares support vector machine) model to realize the fault diagnosis. The accuracy of fault diagnosis in simulation and hardware experiment are 99.61% and 97.93% respectively. Compared with other fault diagnosis and feature selection methods, the proposed method still has higher accuracy and better engineering practicability.