Design of fault detection and isolation systems with application to quality assessment of electrical motors (RIDRS)
Researchers
Đani Juričić, Matej Gašperin in cooperation with Jože Vižantin, Blaž Suhač, Boris Kržan, Center of tribology and technical Diagnostics
Duration
September 2005 - August 2008
Funding
Slovenian Research Agency (L2-7298, D), co-sponsored by ACRONI d.d., Jesenice
Abstract
In the manufacturing and process industries there is a growing need to replace periodical checks of the physical condition of rotating machinery with reliable on-line condition monitoring systems able to reveal tentative causes for malfunction as early as in their incipient stage. As worsening of machine condition typically progresses gradually, the maintenance actions can be planed well before a fault evolves into a failure provoking system break-down.
The idea of the project is to build a laboratory test bed fully equipped with rich instrumentation and monitored by powerful on-line algorithms. The test bed consists of a motor-generator pair connected through a mechanical clutch which emulates drives, so much widespread in various branches of industries. This case study will serve
- to develop new monitoring strategies on the one hand and
- to develop new monitoring strategies on the one hand and to develop useful SW modules that might be implemented in industry.
General idea of the project can be seen from Figure.
One of the issues in system diagnosis is how to fully exploit the diversity of information sources i.e. standard on-line measurement instrumentation complemented with off-line special-purpose laboratory checks of wear particles and lubricant samples.