Reliability analysis of detecting false alarms that employ neural networks: a real case study on wind turbines.

Operations and maintenance tasks are critical to the reliability of a wind turbine. The state-of-the-art demonstrates the effectiveness of reliability centred maintenance, but there are no research studies that consider false alarms to reliability of the wind turbines. This paper presents a novel ap...

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Autores: Pliego Marugán, Alberto, Peco Chacón, Ana María, García Márquez, Fausto Pedro
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Repositorio:RUIdeRA. Repositorio Institucional de la UCLM
OAI Identifier:oai:ruidera.uclm.es:10578/21480
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2019.106574
http://hdl.handle.net/10578/21480
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Reliability centred maintenance
Condition monitoring
Artificial neural network
Wind energy conversion systems
False alarms
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Sumario:Operations and maintenance tasks are critical to the reliability of a wind turbine. The state-of-the-art demonstrates the effectiveness of reliability centred maintenance, but there are no research studies that consider false alarms to reliability of the wind turbines. This paper presents a novel approach based on artificial neural networks to reliability centred maintenance. The methodology is employed for false alarm detection and prioritization, training the artificial neural networks over the time to increase the system reliability. The approach is applied to a real dataset from a supervisory control and data acquisition system together with a vibration monitoring system of a wind turbine. The results accuracy is done by confusion matrices, studding real alarms with the estimations provided by the approach, and the results are validated with real false alarms and compared by the results given by a fuzzy logic model. The method provides accuracy results (over 90%). A novelty is to use a two real dataset from a wind turbine to create a redundant response to detect false alarms by artificial neural networks.