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Abstract—Temperature is one of the most important of applications such as electrical and mechanical maintenance
indicators of health of rotating machines. To provide automatic [5], agriculture [6], defense [7], aviation, geological survey
fault diagnosis using temperature information it is meaningful [8], automotive [9], medical [10], electronics [11] etc. for
to extract optimal featureswhich can be used to identify the fault detection. It is also used in industries to detect serious
potential fault. An automatic bearing fault diagnosis approach faults in equipment, quality control and process control. In
using non-invasive contactless thermal infrared imaging is order to perform automatic health monitoring as well as fault
proposed for early fault diagnosis of an induction motor. The diagnosis of the rotating machines using thermal imaging
authors analyse thermal images of four different bearing three important stages are involved, image acquisition, image
conditions in a three phase induction motor: outer race pre-processing, feature extraction and selection and
defected bearing, inner race defected bearing, lack of
classification.
lubrication and healthy bearing. As a first step thermal images
of induction motor were acquired then preprocessed using 2D- It is very important to understand the factors that
DWT to decomposed the thermal images.This is followed contribute to the variations in the thermal behavior of the
extracting relevant features and selecting the strongest feature bearings. In this work we study these factors by examing the
using Mahanabolis distance critera. Finally the selected thermal images of the bearing region of the induction motor.
features are given to a SVM classifier for classification of The mutual effects of the thermal behaviour and bearing
bearing condition. The experimental results indicate decent health conditions are analyzed accordingly.The
classification performance of the proposed technique for
characteristics of the temperature are stable to wear and tear,
bearing fault detection.
type of fault, and its severity [12]. Signal processing
Index Terms— Thermal Imaging; Condition Monitoring; techniques employed for extracting the features of the
Thermal Camera; Preventive Maintanence. temperature play an important role in the systems intended
for the automated analysis and interpretation of bearing
I. INTRODUCTION faults. Hence, it is necessary to identify suitable signal
processing techniques, which can detect and categorise the
Bearing is an important element used in rotating
fault accurately. In this study, we focus of designing one such
machines to establish a free rotational motion by reducing
automatic bearing fault diagnosis frameworkcapable of
friction on the rotor shaft. Bearings are designed for rotaing
identifying four different bearing states of a induction motor
machines to have a useful and long life. In all practical
(as shown in Fig.1)using thermal images.
scenarios, bearing must be perfectly installed, lubricated and
maintained.Improper handling, poor operating environments This paper is organised as follows: related work using
and contaminated areas invite immature bearing failure. Itis thermal imaging techniques for diagnosis of rotating
important to find the exact cause of bearing failurefor repair machinery faults has been discussed in section II. Then, the
and maintainence. Bearings cause for bearing defects are methodology of bearing fault diagnosis and classification is
loose or tight fits, misalignment, excessive and reverse presented in section III. In the section IV, the experimental
loading, wear and tear, contamination in lubricants, lubricant study of the bearing fault diagnosis has been discussed. The
failure, corrosion, and overheating. Many researchers have experimental results arepresented in section V. Lastly done
investigated that the primary causation of failure of electrical with the conclusion of the proposed work in section VI.
rotating machinery is bearing deficiency [1–2].
Unpredictable damage of bearings may affect other
rotating parts of the machines and also increase the severity
of the plant breakdown [3]. Traditional methods for
inspecting the bearing systems are motor current analysis,
wear debris analysis, vibration monitoring, etc. [4]. Thermal
Imaging Technique (TIT), is emerging as an alternative
technique as it is non-intrusive, contactless, and less complex.
The thermal cameras sense radiation in a long-infrared range
(9-14μm) of the electromagnetic-spectrum, and produces
thermal images, known as thermograms. According to the
Stefan-Boltzmann’s law, temperature measurement depends
on the intensity of the emitted radiation. TIT has a vast range Fig. 1. Fig.1 Bearing in different faulty and healthy condition (a) Healthy
(b) inner race defected bearing (c) outer race defect bearing (d) Lack
of lubrication
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x, y: points from the same distribution then draw an optimal hyperplane to dividedinto different
bearing defects. In this work we use SVMs for multi-class
C: covariance matrix classification, four cases of bearing condition, healthy inner
d : Mahalanobis distance race, outer race and lack of lubrication.
The distances amidst all the selected features
arecomputed using Mahalanobis distance. Hither, distance IV. EXPERIMENTAL STUDY
between the three categories, healthy versus inner race Thermal images of induction motor were acquired using
condition, healthy versus outer race condition and healthy FLIR E-60 (thermal camera) in an electrical laboratory at
versus lubrication problem. After finding Mahalanobis NITTTR, Chandigarh. The camera was installed at a distance
distance, the average distances of all different conditions are of 2 feet from the induction motor during the experimental
calculated and six strongest features are selected. The six setup as shown in Fig. 5. In this paper, thermal images of
features are mean, skewness, entropy, STD, energy, kurtosis. inductuion motor are captured under laboratory conditions.
Furthermore, the unnecessary features have been neglected, The specification of used induction motor is discussed in
conforming to the limit of relevance level. Table 1.
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TABLE I. SPECIFICATION OF INDUCTION MOTOR steady state temperature can be seen in Fig.6. Thermal
AND THERMAL CAMERA signature of healthy motor is lower than the faulty conditions.
Machine Machine
The rate of change of thermal signature is more in the case of
/Equipment
Specification
/Equipment lubricant, outer and inner race defect that of healthy bearing.
Induction Power Supply : 3 Phase 440V, Induction However, the difference between than the healthy and the
Motor 0.75A, 50Hz Motor three faulty bearing condition the bearing thermal signature
Power-: 0.5 HP increase with time. The fault size of outer and inner race
Speed: 1440 rpm defect is a 2mm hole as shown in Fig.1. In this paper, after
Thermal spectral range: 7.5–13 μm ( Thermal decomposition, six strongestfeatures were selected based on
Camera Uncooled microbolometer) Camera Mahalanobis distance methods.the best six features mean,
pixels : 320 × 240 skewness, entropy, STD, energy, kurtosis,are selected for
temperature range of Storage: passing onto the classifier. Figure 7 shows the results of the
– 40°C to +70°C classifier in terms of confusion matrix.It can be seen that the
temperature range (Operating) developed method is able to classify the four bearing
–15°C to +50°C conditions accurately.There is only one case of false
Relative humidity : +25°C to classification of lubrication fault as inner race fault in casee
+40°C / 2 cycles of no-load and half load conditions. In all the scenarios,
faulty conditions were identified from healthy bearning
This study, two levels of decomposition are applied to the condition. Therefore, it can be stated that the proposed
thermal images of the induction motor. Indeed, the intelligent thermal imaging based fault diagnosis and
approximation coefficient was considered since the most monitoring system is able to classify and diagnosticate the
prominent information contain in a low frequency signal in thermal images of three faulty and one healthy condition of
the original thermal image.The thermal signature of the bearing with a higher classification accuracy on the
proposed bearing conditions during 120 min to achieve its experimental dataset.
Fig. 5. Experimental Setup (1) FLIR E-60 (Thermal Camera), (2) Digital Multimeter (3) 3 Phase Power Supply (4) Direct On Line Starter (5) Digital
Tachometer (6) Induction Motor with Bearing Faults (7) Computer GUI
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Fig. 6. Thermal signature of different bearing conditions (a) at no load (b) at half load (c) at full load
Fig. 7. Confusion matrix of SVM (a) at no-load (b) at half -load (c) at full-load
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