Experimental validation of doubly fed induction machine electrical faults diagnosis under time-varying conditions

This paper investigates a new diagnosis technique for incipient electrical faults in doubly fed induction machine for wind power systems under time-varying conditions. The proposed method is based on currents frequency sliding pre-processing, and discrete wavelet transform thereby. The mean power calculation of wavelet signals, at different resolution levels, is introduced as a dynamic fault indicator for quantifying the fault extents. The approach effectiveness is proved for both stator and rotor faults under speed and fault varying conditions. Simulation and experimental results show the validity of the developed method, leading to an effective diagnosis procedure for stator and rotor faults in doubly fed induction machines. (C) 2010 Published by Elsevier B.V.