An Auto-Associative Residual Processing and K-means Clustering Approach for Anemometer Health Assessment
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This paper presents a health assessment methodology, as well as specific residual processing and figure of merit algorithms for anemometers in two different configurations. The methodology and algorithms are applied to data sets provided by the Prognostics and Health Management Society 2011 Data Challenge. The two configurations consist of the “paired” data set in which two anemometers are positioned at the same height, and the “shear” data set which includes an array of anemometers at different heights. Various wind speed statistics, wind direction, and ambient
temperature information are provided, in which the objective is to classify the anemometer health status during a set of samples from a 5 day period. The proposed health assessment methodology consists of a set of data processing steps that include: data filtering and pre-processing, a residual or difference calculation, and a k-means clustering based figure of merit calculation. The residual processing for the paired data set was performed using a straightforward difference calculation, while the shear data set utilized an additional set of algorithm processing steps to calculate a weighted residual value for each anemometer. The residual processing algorithm for the shear data set used a set of auto-associative neural network models to learn the underlying correlation relationship between the anemometer sensors and to calculate a weighted residual value for each of the anemometer wind speed measurements. A figure of merit value based on the mean value of the smaller of the two clusters for the wind speed residual is used to determine the health status of each anemometer. Overall, the proposed methodology and algorithms show promise, in that the results from this approach resulted in the top score for the PHM 2011 Data Challenge Competition. Using different clustering algorithms or density estimation methods for the figure of merit calculation is being considered for future work.
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Auto-Associative Neural Network, K-means Clustering, Anemometer, Sensor Fault Detection
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