Electric Power ›› 2021, Vol. 54 ›› Issue (11): 190-198.DOI: 10.11930/j.issn.1004-9649.202009083

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Fault Diagnosis Method of Wind Turbine Pitch Angle Based on PCA-KNN Fusion Algorithm

CHEN Xi1, LI Luping1, LIU Rui1, YANG Bo2, DENG Zihao1, LI Zhonggui1   

  1. 1. College of Energy and Power Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha 410014, China;
    2. Guangzhou Special Pressure Equipment Inspection and Research Institute, Guangzhou 510663, China
  • Received:2020-09-09 Revised:2020-12-10 Online:2021-11-05 Published:2021-11-16
  • Supported by:
    This work is supported by Science and Technology Project of Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision of Guangdong Province (Wind Turbine Blade Icing Diagnosis and Prediction Technology Based on SCADA Data Information Fusion, No.2018CT28) and Research & Innovation Project of Graduate Students in Hunan Province (High Power Wind Turbine Fault Diagnosis and Report Automatic Generation Technology Based on SCADA System, No.CX20190687)

Abstract: With regard to the four main fault types of the pitch angle of a wind turbine pitch system and the data analysis of the wind turbine, an identification method of abnormal pitch angles of a wind turbine is proposed, depending on nonparametric kernel density estimation and Relief-F based feature extraction for data processing and the PCA-KNN fusion algorithm for fault diagnosis. Firstly, the SCADA data is preprocessed according to nonparametric kernel density estimation, and seven categories (thirteen) of characteristic parameters of pitch angle faults are extracted by the Relief-F algorithm. Then, the PCA-KNN fusion algorithm is used to identify the state of pitch angle faults, and the results show that the proposed method can accurately identify the four main fault types of pitch angles. Finally, the improved PCA-KNN fusion algorithm is compared with the KNN algorithm, the PCA-KNN algorithm and BP neural network, which proves that the improved PCA-KNN fusion algorithm has a higher recognition rate.

Key words: wind turbine, pitch angle fault, SCADA data, nonparametric kernel density estimation, Relief-F algorithm, PCA-KNN fusion algorithm