Rotor Faults Detection in Induction Motor by Wavelet Analysis

ABSTRACT Motor current signature analysis has been successfully used for fault diagnosis in induction motors. However, this method does not always achieve good results when the speed or the load torque is not constant, because this cause variation on the motor slip and fast Fourier transform problems appear due to non-stationary signal. This paper experimentally describes the effects of rotor broken bar fault in the stator current of induction motor operating under non-constant load conditions. To achieve this, broken rotor bar fault is replicated in a laboratory and its effect on the motor current has been studied. To diagnose the broken rotor bar fault, a new approach based on wavelet transform is applied by using ‘Labview 8.2 software’ of National Instrument (NI). The diagnosis procedure was performed by using the virtual instruments. The theoretical basis of proposed method is proved by laboratory tests.