15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
KALMAN FILTERING AND TORQUE SPECTRAL ANALYSIS FOR BROKEN BAR DETECTION IN INDUCTION MOTORS
Mario Eltabach, Ali Charara, Ismail Zein
HEUDIASYC UMR 6599 - LATIM
Université de Technologie de Compiègne
BP 20529
60205 Compiègne Cedex; France
email: mario.eltabach@utc.fr

Rotor asymmetries in induction machines perturb many components such as, flux patterns and electromagnetic torque. The supervision of these signals enables early detection of such faults and help to machine diagnostic. This paper studies the detection of rotor imperfection by spectral analysis of the electromagnetic torque computed by two rotor flux estimators. In the first approach, the Kalman filter is used assuming to be known the mechanical velocity. The second approach uses Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) for speed estimation. Experimental results show the great capability of these methods to detect this type of faults.
Keywords: Induction machines, diagnostics, fault detection, Kalman algorithms
Session slot T-Th-E10: Fault Diagnosis Application Studies II/Area code 7e : Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes