When a turn-to-turn short fault occurs in an induction motor, it will be accompanied by vibration and heating, which will have adverse effects on the entire power system. Thus, turn-to-turn short fault diagnosis of the stator is required, and major accidents can be prevented if an inter-turn short circuit (ITSC), which is the early stage of a turn-to-turn short, can be detected. This study reinterprets Park’s vector approach using Direct-Quadrature(D-Q) transformation for the linear separation of ITSCs and proposes an ITSC diagnosis method by defining the magnetic flux linkage pulsation and current change in the event of a turn-to-turn short. It is difficult to diagnose because the turn-to-turn short current change in an ITSC is considerably different from the induction motor loss. Hence, it was found through analysis that when the current change is considered through an analysis of the relationship between inductance and the winding number, the ITSC current becomes slightly smaller than the steady-state current. This was verified using the D-Q synchronous reference frame over time. We proposed a linear separation of the ITSC diagnosis from the steady state by considering the minimum values of the pulsating current as feature points.
In this paper, a direct-quadrature (D-Q) synchronous min–max coordinate system is proposed (as a new method) for diagnosing the occurrence of inter-turn short circuits (ITSC) of three-phase induction motors, and it was found that this method can linearly diagnose such short circuits using only the maximum value of the d-axis current component from the heavy load to the full load. In the diagnosis of ITSC, a method to perform linear discriminant analysis (LDA) efficiently was applied owing to the difficulty of linear separation under light load conditions. In the aforementioned method, time burden is generated because operations are performed for the entire data and between classes. However, the proposed method is useful even when it is applied to the entire load with only the LDA eigenvector of the minimum light load. This is proved by the graphical evaluation of the interaction between the false acceptance rate (FAR) and false recognition rate (FRR), and the results demonstrate that the proposed method is more efficient than existing LDA application methods.
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