Floating offshore wind turbine fault diagnosis via regularized dynamic canonical correlation and fisher discriminant analysis

Journal Article (2021)
Author(s)

Ping Wu (Zhejiang Institute of Meteorological Sciences)

Y. Liu (TU Delft - Team Riccardo Ferrari)

Riccardo Ferrari (TU Delft - Team Riccardo Ferrari)

JW Wingerden (TU Delft - Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden)

Research Group
Team Riccardo Ferrari
Copyright
© 2021 Ping Wu, Y. Liu, Riccardo M.G. Ferrari, J.W. van Wingerden
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1049/rpg2.12319
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Publication Year
2021
Language
English
Copyright
© 2021 Ping Wu, Y. Liu, Riccardo M.G. Ferrari, J.W. van Wingerden
Research Group
Team Riccardo Ferrari
Issue number
16
Volume number
15
Pages (from-to)
4006-4018
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Abstract

Over the past decades, Floating Offshore Wind Turbine (FOWT) has gained increasing attention in wind engineering due to the rapidly growing energy demands. However, difficulties in turbine maintenance will increase due to the harsh operational conditions. Fault diagnosis techniques play a crucial role to enhance the reliability of FOWTs and reduce the cost of offshore wind energy. In this paper, a novel data-driven fault diagnosis method using regularized dynamic canonical correlation analysis (RDCCA) and Fisher discriminant analysis (FDA) is proposed for FOWTs. Specifically, to overcome the collinearity problem that exists in measured process data, dynamic canonical correlation analysis with a regularization scheme, is developed to exploit the relationship between input and output signals. Then, the residual signals are generated from the established RDCCA model for fault detection. To further classify the fault type, an FDA model is trained from the residual signals of different training faulty data sets. Simulations on a FOWT baseline model based on the widely used National Renewable Energy Laboratory FAST simulator are carried out to demonstrate the feasibility and efficacy of the proposed fault detection and classification method. Results have shown many salient features of the proposed method with potential applications in FOWTs.