marshall@marshall.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Marshall) (03/14/91)
====== TRIANGLE AREA NEURAL NETWORK INTEREST GROUP presents: ====== Dr. MO-YUEN CHOW Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering North Carolina State University Tuesday, March 19, 1991 6:00 p.m. Entrance is locked at 6:30. Microelectronics Center Building, MCNC 3021 Cornwallis Road Research Triangle Park, NC Followed immediately by an ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING for the Triangle Area Neural Network Interest Group ---------------------------------------------------------------------- APPLICATION OF NEURAL NETWORKS TO INCIPIENT FAULT DETECTION IN INDUCTION MOTORS The main focus of the presentation is to introduce a new concept for incipient fault detection in rotating machines using artificial neural networks. Medium size induction motors are used as prototypes for rotating machines due to their wide applications. The concepts developed for induction motors can be easily generalized to other rotating machines. The common incipient faults of induction motors, namely, turn-to-turn insulation faults and bearing wear, and their effects on the motor performance are considered. A corresponding artificial neural network structure is then designed to detect those incipient faults. The designed network is trained by data of different fault conditions, obtained from a detailed induction motor simulation program. After training, the neural net is tested with a set of random data within the fault range under consideration. With a priori data knowledge, the network structure can be greatly simplified by using a high-order artificial neural network. The performance of using the batch-update and pattern-update backpropagation training algorithms for the network are compared. The satisfactory performance of using artificial neural networks in this project shows the promising future of artificial neural networks applications for other types of fault detection. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Co-Sponsored by: Department of Electrical and Computer Eng., NCSU Department of Computer Science, UNC-CH Humanities Computing Facility, Duke Univ. Microelectronics Center of North Carolina (MCNC) Directions: Raleigh: I-40 west to Durham Freeway (147) north, 147 to Cornwallis exit. Durham: 147 south to Cornwallis exit. Chapel Hill: I-40 east to Durham Freeway (147) north, 147 to Cornwallis exit. FROM CORNWALLIS EXIT, bear right, go thru first set of traffic lights, passing Burroughs Wellcome, then next driveway on right is MCNC. When you enter MCNC, the Microelectronics Center building is on the left. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite you to participate in organizing and running the new Triangle-area neural network (NN) interest group. It is our hope that the group will foster communication and collaboration among the local NN researchers, students, businesses, and the public. For more information: Jonathan Marshall (UNC-CH, 962-1887, marshall@cs.unc.edu) or John Sutton (NCSU, 737-5065, sutton@eceugs.ece.ncsu.edu).