EAAI Journal 2025 Journal Article
Handling data heterogeneity for wind turbine fault diagnosis via dynamic ensemble multilevel interactive learning
- Shuangxin Wang
- Hongrui Li
- Jiading Jiang
- Meng Li
- Junmei Ou
- Dingli Yu
The artificial intelligence methods used in wind turbine fault diagnosis have not adequately considered the inherent heterogeneity of SCADA data. This heterogeneity arises from the stochastic nature of wind and the operational characteristics of turbines. Neglecting the heterogeneity may lead to models struggling to capture fault characteristic patterns across varying wind speed ranges, diminishing diagnostic performance. To handle this, a novel dynamic ensemble multilevel interactive (DEMI) learning method is proposed. Firstly, a new index of wind speed jump value is presented and applied to the fine data division of diagnostic units. This process assists diagnostic units in focusing more on learning fault distribution patterns within each wind speed range. Simultaneously, to capture fault feature information from complex and variable data, deep small-world networks with short-path propagation and high clustering properties are designed within each unit for multilevel feature interaction learning. Subsequently, a multi-wind-speed unit model library is constructed, and a dynamic selection algorithm is employed to find high-performance classifiers to reduce the impact of these networks random topology. Finally, in the diagnostic phase, the final diagnostic results are obtained using online dynamic retrieval ensemble. The experimental results indicate that the DEMI enhances diagnostic performance accuracy compared to the currently advanced methods that overlook heterogeneity, while reducing false alarm rates.