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A Novel Time-Domain Method Of Fault Diagnosis In Induction Motors, Bryan J. Davis
A Novel Time-Domain Method Of Fault Diagnosis In Induction Motors, Bryan J. Davis
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This paper introduces a novel time-domain method for detecting the four major types of induction motor faults without requiring complex signal processing or additional sensors other than those already in place for closed-loop motor control. This method artificially modulates the motor current feedback signal with a perturbed frequency that oscillates about the characteristic frequency of the fault in question. After filtering out the unwanted frequency components that result from the modulation, the selected fault-indicative component is a very slow sinusoid that is only present when the fault is present. The method looks for this fault-indicative component by monitoring the time …