Inter-Turn Short-Circuit Failure of PMSM Indicator based on Kalman Filtering in Operational Behavior

Abstract

In the next twenty years traffic aircraft will be doubled. Thus, avionic devices will become more and more electric and the aircrafts become lighter in order to save more fuel. Thus, the more electric aircraft will face a great challenge that of the predictive maintenance of its electrical equipments. A key component of these devices is the Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM). In this article we are interested in one of the most recurrent failure of electric motor, that of the inter-turn short circuit failure. The purpose of this study, therefore, is to develop an interturn short-circuit sensitive indicator. It’s based on a linear Kalman filter for a healthy model to estimate residual voltage drops in the rotor reference (d,q). The proposed study shows a high sensitive indicator to the inter-turn short-circuit fault even under external disturbances. As well,  several features can result from it, especially the signal energy, spectral and statistical information, etc. These features can highlight aging laws that will be used as patterns for Prognosis and Health Management (PHM) of inter-turn short-circuit failure.