IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS, cilt.53, sa.3, ss.2976-2987, 2017 (SCI-Expanded)
This paper presents the analysis and development of a new method for electric fault detection in induction motor drives. The proposed method is based on extracting the magnitudes and phases of the high frequency sub-band contents present in the d−qaxis components of the stator currents (id and iq) in an induction motor. The desired magnitudes and phases are extracted by processing id and iq using phaselet frames that are realized by a modulated filter bank. This filter bank is designed using 6 digital high pass filters, whose coefficients are determined by bi-orthogonal phaselet basis functions. Extracted high frequency sub-band contents provide signature information that can offer accurate and fast detection of faults. The phaselet-based electric fault detection method has been made into a procedure for digital implementation. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated off-line for collected stator currents from 2 different IMDs under different operating conditions. Off-line test results show accurate, reliable, and fast detection of electric faults, with minor sensitivity to the ratings, loading levels, and type and location of faults.