Measurement of instantaneous shaft speed by advanced vibration signal processing - application to wind turbine gearbox

Source: Metrology and Measurement Systems, Volume 19, 1/2012, Pages 701-712
Authors: Radosław Zimroz, Jacek Urbanek (EC Systems), Tomasz Barszcz (EC Systems), Walter Bartelmus, Fabien Millioz, Nadine Martin

Abstract:

Condition monitoring of machines working under non-stationary operations is one of the most challenging problems in maintenance. A wind turbine is an example of such class of machines. One of effective approaches may be to identify operating conditions and investigate their influence on used diagnostic features. Commonly used methods based on measurement of electric current, rotational speed, power and other process variables require additional equipment (sensors, acquisition cards) and software. It is proposed to use advanced signal processing techniques for instantaneous shaft speed recovery from a vibration signal. It may be used instead of extra channels or in parallel as signal verification.

Keywords: speed tracking, speed estimation, instantaneous frequency, spectrogram, wind turbines.

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