A New Fault Diagnosis Method for High Voltage Circuit Breakers Based on Wavelet Packet and Radical Basis Function Neural Network

A new method that researching fault diagnosis of high-voltage (HV) circuit breaker (CB) is proposed. The method combines Wavelet Packet (WP) with Radical Basis Function (RBF) Neural Network (NN). Firstly, by applying the theory of WP decomposition and reconstruction, the mechanical vibration signal of CB was decomposed into different frequency bands, and the coefficients are reconstructed in the corresponding node. After that, the feature vector was extracted by equal-energy segment entropy from reconstructed signals. Finally, fault diagnosis has been realized through the classification of feature parameters combined with RBF neural network. The experiment outputs show that the method can be applied in diagnosis.