Stator Winding Fault Detection in Induction Motor
Drives Using Signal Injection
G. R. Bossio, C. H. De Angelo, P. M. de la Barrera, J. A. Solsona, G. O. Garcı́a and M. I. Valla
Abstract—A stator winding turn fault diagnosis strategy in
induction motor (IM) drives is proposed in the present work.
This strategy is based on the effects of the inductance variations
coming from fault, over zero-sequence voltage. This voltage
is measured when a predefined inverter-switching pattern is
applied, allowing then decoupling the strategy from the motor
fundamental excitation. For the evaluation of the feasibility of
this proposal, a multiple-coupled circuit model of the IM is
used. Experimental results are included to show the ability of
the proposed strategy for detecting incipient faults, including a
low number of short-circuited turns.
Index Terms—Induction motor, Fault Diagnosis, Signal Injec-
tion.
I. I NTRODUCTION
TATOR winding turn faults are one of the most common
S faults in electric motors [1]. The gradual damage of the
winding insulation can occur due to overheat, transient over-
voltage, winding movements or contamination. The use of
variable-speed drives increases these problems due to the
high rates of voltage changes produced by inverter switching
[2]. All this motivated investigators to develop strategies for
stator fault diagnosis, specially designed for variable speed
drives. Some techniques use artificial intelligence to detect
stator and other motor faults [3] from current and voltage
measurement, while other strategies, based on observers [4]
or parameter estimation [5] have also been proposed. Other
proposals take advantage of the inverter capabilities to inject
additional signals, in order to extract information about the
fault, both in induction motors [6]–[9] and other machines
[10].
Winding insulation damages may cause faults which in turn
produce high currents and winding overheating. This over-
heating can quickly result in severe faults between windings
of different phases or between winding and ground, producing
then permanent and irreversible damages both in windings and
This work was supported by Universidad Nacional de Rı́o Cuarto (UNRC),
Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS), Universidad Nacional de La Plata
(UNLP), ANPCyT, CONICET and MINCyT-Cba.
G. R. Bossio, C. H. De Angelo, P. M. de la Barrera and G. O. Garcı́a are
with CONICET, and also with the Grupo de Electrónica Aplicada (GEA),
Facultad de Ingenierı́a, UNRC, Ruta Nacional #36 Km. 601, X5804BYA,
Rı́o Cuarto, Argentina. (gbossio@ing.unrc.edu.ar, cdeangelo@ieee.org, pbar-
rera@ieee.org and g.garcia@ieee.org).
J. Solsona is with CONICET and also with Instituto de Investigaciones en
Ingenierı́a Eléctrica “Alfredo Desages”, Departamento de Ingenierı́a Eléctrica
y de Computadoras, UNS, Av. Alem 1253 (8000) Bahı́a Blanca, Argentina
(jsolsona@uns.edu.ar).
M. I. Valla is with Laboratorio de Electrónica Industrial, Control e
Instrumentación (LEICI), Departamento de Electrotecnia, Facultad de In-
genierı́a, UNLP, 1900 La Plata, Argentina, and also with CONICET
(m.i.valla@ieee.org).
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stator core. For such reason, an early detection of incipient
winding faults is very important.
A strategy for stator winding fault detection in variable-
speed induction motors (IM), with star connection, is presented
in this paper. This strategy is based on the effects of such
faults when the motor is fed by an additional excitation to
the fundamental one. The additional excitation consists on a
predefined sequence of pulses applied by the inverter and it
was previously used for position estimation [11] and for fault
diagnosis such as broken bars and rings [12] and air-gap eccen-
tricity [13]. The excitation signal injection allows decoupling
the diagnosis signal from the fundamental excitation aimed to
generate the motor torque. Variations on the IM inductance
values, under fault conditions, produce significant changes on
the signals obtained from zero-sequence voltage, thus allowing
the incipient fault diagnosis.
The present work is organized as follows: an IM model
that allows considering the winding fault effects is presented.
Then, the proposed diagnosis strategy is described, and the
diagnosis signals are determined. After that, the effect of faults
on diagnosis signals, using the IM model, is analyzed. Finally,
experimental results that validate the proposal are given and
the main conclusions drawn.
II. I NDUCTION M OTOR M ODEL
The multiple-coupled circuit model proposed in [14] is
used for the IM analysis. Saturation and eddy-current effects
are neglected in this model. In addition, the rotor bars are
supposed to be isolated. An m-circuit stator and n-bar rotor
IM is considered. The rotor cage is modeled as n-identical
and equally spaced loops, constituted by two consecutive bars,
plus a current loop on one of the rings. The inductances used
in this multiple-circuit model are deduced from the equations
proposed in [15].
A. Stator fault modeling
All the modifications on the multiple-circuit model, neces-
sary to include stator winding turn faults, were carried out as
in [16]. Fig. 1 shows a scheme of the stator windings, with a
turn-to-turn fault on the phase-a, where the shorted turns form
the f circuit.
The equations that describe the IM dynamics are,
dλs
Vs = Rs Is + (1)
dt
dλr
0 = Rr Ir + (2)
dt
 Mutual Inductance, LAR1 (mH)
0.1

ia if
0

−0.1
ib ic
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Rotor Position, θr (rad)

Fig. 2. Mutual inductance between phase a and the rotor loop R1 , with five
shorted turns.
Fig. 1. Stator windings with a turn fault in the phase a.

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Mutual Inductance, LFR1 (μH)

dλf
0 = Rf if + (3)
dt
where, Vs , Is , λs , Ir and λr are the voltage, current and
flux stator and rotor vectors, respectively. R s y Rr are the 0

stator and rotor resistance matrices, respectively. i f and λf

are the current and flux linked by the short-circuited turns,
respectively.
The fluxes linked by the stator, rotor and the short-circuited
turns are given by,
λs = Lss Is + Lsr Ir + Lsf if (4)
λr = Lrs Is + Lrr Ir + Lrf if (5)
λf = Lf s Is + Lf r Ir + Lf f if (6)
where Lss is a 3 ∗ 3 matrix with self and mutual stator
inductances, Lrr is an (n + 1) ∗ (n + 1) matrix with self
and mutual rotor inductances, L sr is a 3 ∗ (n + 1) matrix with
the mutual inductances between the stator phase and the rotor
loops, Lrs is an (n+ 1)∗ 3 matrix with the mutual inductances
between the rotor loops and the stator phases, L sf is a 3 ∗ 1
vector with mutual inductances between the stator circuits and
the shorted turns and L sf = LTfs . Lrf is an n ∗ 1 vector
with mutual inductances between the rotor loops and shorted
turns as components and L rf = LTfr . Lf f is the shorted turns
self inductance composed by the magnetization inductance and
leakage inductance.
As an example, the mutual inductances between the dam-
aged phase and one rotor loop as well as those between
the same loop and the shorted turns for a fault in the first
winding of the phase-a are shown. Both, the characteristics
and distribution of the windings are detailed in Table I. Fig.
2 shows the mutual inductance between the phase a and the
loop 1 of the rotor in thick line, and its derivative in thin line,
for a five-turn fault in the a 1 winding. Fig. 3 shows the mutual
inductance and its derivative, between the 5 shorted turns and
the loop 1 of the rotor. Results demonstrate that such fault
reduces the mutual inductance between the damaged phase and
the rotor loops in the region where there are shorted turns. If
the mutual inductance between the shorted turns and one of
the rotor loops is added to that between the damaged phase
and the same loop, then, the mutual inductance between the
same phase with no fault and the corresponding rotor loop can
be obtained.
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Rotor Position, θr (rad)
Fig. 3. Mutual inductance between the five shorted turns of a1 and the rotor
loop R1 .
III. S TATOR FAULT D ETECTION S TRATEGY
Considering a star-connected IM fed by a three-phase in-
verter, motor asymmetries such as air-gap eccentricity, broken
rotor bars or short-circuited turns affect the zero-sequence
voltage. Using an additional excitation to the fundamental one,
it is possible to extract information about the asymmetries
from the zero-sequence voltage. The additional excitation
used in this paper for the stator winding faults detection
consists in a predefined inverter-switching pattern applied to
the motor for a short time while the fundamental excitation
is canceled. This excitation was used previously to implement
a position estimation strategy [11]. Fig. 4 shows a scheme of
the proposed strategy. The control loop of the fundamental
current i∗sf is canceled during the injection of exploratory
∗
signal vse . Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) commands the
inverter to apply the additional excitation signal composed
by the inverter’s six active states applied in the following
sequence u1 (+ − −), u4 (− + +), u3 (− + −), u6 (+ − +),
u5 (− − +) and u2 (+ + −) [11].
The zero-sequence voltage is obtained from the sum of
voltages of the three phases respect to the motor neutral point,
vsn = [va vb vc ],
uσ = va + vb + vc (7)
measured synchronously respect to the injection of voltage
pulses.
By doing the difference between zero-sequence voltages for
opposite switching states,
pa = u(1) (4)
σ − uσ (8)

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Fig. 4. General scheme of the diagnosis strategy.

 
pb = u(3) (6)
σ − uσ (9) Lsrf = LTrf s = Lsr Lsf (17)
pc = u(5) − u(2) (10)  
σ σ Lrr Lrf
(x) Lrf rf = (18)
where uσ is the zero-sequence voltage corresponding to the Lf r Lf f
inverter state ux , then, speed voltage effects can be almost
totally eliminated and the voltage signal results a function of From the model expressed by (14) and (15) and proceeding
the phase inductances where the excitation is applied. For an as in [17], then the diagnosis signals can be obtained as
IM with no faults, these three signals are almost sinusoidal and functions of the motor inductances,
 −1
their fundamentals present an n-period-per-revolution, where
M Lss − Lsrf L−1 rf rf L rf s NTa
n is the number of bars [17]. pa = −2 Ud  −1 (19)
By transforming the three-phase signals into an α and β M Lss − Lsrf L−1 L M T
rf rf rf s
coordinate system fixed to the stator, it is possible to define a
spatial vector P (θn ) = (pα , pβ ), which contains information  −1
about asymmetries or saliencies of the IM. M Lss − Lsrf L−1
rf rf Lrf s NTb
pb = −2 Ud  −1 (20)
M Lss − Lsrf L−1
rf rf Lrf s MT
IV. A NALYSIS OF FAULT E FFECTS ON THE D IAGNOSIS
S IGNALS  −1
M Lss − Lsrf L−1
rf rf Lrf s NTc
For the effects of winding faults on diagnosis signals to pc = −2 Ud  −1 (21)
be analyzed, the multiple-coupled circuit model with the
M Lss − Lsrf L−1
rf rf Lrf s MT
modifications proposed in Section II was used. If the time
of the exploratory signal injection is short, then, it is possible where,  
for the speed electromotive force effects and resistance voltage M= 1 1 1 (22)
drops to be neglected and consequently the equations for the  
motor with fault result in, Na = 2 −1 −1 (23)
dIs dIr dif  
Vs = Lss + Lsr + Lsf (11)
dt dt dt Nb = −1 2 −1 (24)
dIs dIr dif  
0 = Lrs + Lrr + Lrf (12)
dt dt dt Nc = −1 −1 2 (25)
dIs dIr dif
0 = Lf s + Lf r + Lf f (13) and Ud is the inverter DC voltage.
dt dt dt Fig. 5(a) shows signals p β vs. pα for a motor with no stator
Grouping conveniently, faults, calculated from previous equations and with the motor
dIs dIrf parameters presented in Table I. This figure also shows the
Vs = Lss + Lsrf (14) almost circular trajectory of the vector, due to the geometric
dt dt
dIs dIrf distribution of bars. Fig. 5(b) displays signals p β vs. pα for
0 = Lrf s + Lrf rf (15) five shorted turns in the first winding of phase a. Such fault
dt dt
produces a signal displacement on the α−β plane, represented
where,  T by a DC component of the diagnosis signals, whereas the
Irf = Ir If (16) component produced by the rotor bars does not modify its

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 120 120

80 80
a1-18 a1-0
40 40
a1-10 a1-5 a1-4 a1-3 a1-2 a1-1

pβ(V)
p (V)

0 0
β

−40 −40
−80 −80 Fig. 8. Details of winding a1 , in which faults can be generated.
−120 −120
−120−80 −40 0 40 80 120 −120−80 −40 0 40 80 120
p (V) p (V)
α α Winding a1 Induction
Motor
(a) (b) Induction
Motor
Fig. 5. Signals pβ vs. pα , (a) with no faults (b) five shorted turns. Drive
Phase c

−20 Phase b

−40 Phase a
pα0(V)

−60

−80 Fig. 9. IM with modified stator windings.

−100

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Number of shorted turns
Fig. 6. Component pα0 as a function of the number of shorted turns.
amplitude. A similar result was presented by [7], where the
effect on negative-sequence currents is analyzed when a bal-
anced, three-phase, high-frequency, voltage is injected to the
motor in order to obtain diagnosis signals. The displacement
direction on the α − β plane indicates the location of the
affected winding. The amplitude of the displacement on the
α − β plane as a function of the number of shorted turns is
shown in Fig. 6. It can be observed that for a low number of
shorted turns, the amplitude of the DC component increases
its value significantly, tending to a constant value for a higher
number.
V. E XPERIMENTAL R ESULTS
To validate the diagnosis strategy performance, the windings
of a motor were modified so as to make it possible shorting
different number of turns of the windings of the phase a. Fig. 7
displays a scheme of the complete stator winding, while Fig. 8
shows a detail of the modified phase a 1 winding. Fig. 9 shows
the test bench and the IM with modified stator windings.
Fig. 10 shows a block diagram of the laboratory prototype.
The diagnosis strategy was implemented on a PC, in which
both the fundamental current control and the exploratory signal
references are generated.
Experimental results were obtained with the motor at 30
r/min, with no fundamental excitation, and driven by a stan-
dard drive. Due to the fact that the average voltage, injected
by the exploratory signal, is equal to zero, and that each
exploratory signal state only lasts 75 μseg, it would not be
necessary to limit the currents on the faulted turns through an
external resistance.
9 10
Fig. 11(a) shows signals p β vs. pα for a motor with no
winding faults. Fig. 11(b) shows the effects of the five shorted
turns on the diagnosis signals. It can be observed from Fig. 11
that the turn fault of one phase produces a signal displacement
on α − β plane, in the opposite direction to the faulted phase.
Spectrum of the p α signal for the healthy motor is shown
in Fig. 12(a), where only the component of 40 cycles/rev
produced by the 40 rotor bars is appreciated. However, for
the motor with five shorted turns, a DC component appears in
the spectrum (Fig. 12(b)), which produces the displacement of
the signal in the α − β plane. The DC component produced
by the fault is obtained by first canceling the offset produced
by other saliencies and that due to voltage sensors and A/D
converter. The magnitude of the DC component produced by
fault, as a function of the number of shorted turns, is given in
Fig. 13. These results, similar to those obtained through the
model-based analysis, show that it is possible to detect a small
number shorted turns.
A discontinuity in the DC component’s amplitude, p α0 ,
corresponding to a change from five to six shorted turns,
can be observed in Fig. 13. Asymmetries that justify such
discontinuity on the shorted turns were not observed. However,
there exists a difference in the windings’ connections to
achieve a desirable number of shorted turns. For the first five
shorted turns, the end of phase a, a 1−0 , was connected to
the outputs a1−1 , a1−2 , a1−3 , a1−4 and a1−5 , producing the
short circuit at the beginning of the phase. For the following
windings, 6 to 10, the output a 1−10 was connected to the
outputs a1−4 , a1−3 , a1−2 , a1−1 and a1−0 respectively. For the
first four cases, there are not shorted turns at the beginning of
the phase.
VI. C ONCLUSIONS
A strategy for stator winding fault detection in IM was
proposed in this work. The proposal is based on a signal-

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Fig. 7. Modified stator winding.

100 100

80 80

60 60

p (V)

p (V)
α

α
40 40

20 20

0 0
0 20 40 60 80 100 0 20 40 60 80 100
Cycle/rev. Cycle/rev.

(a) (b)

Fig. 12. Spectrum of pα signal, (a) with no faults (b) five shorted turns.

0
Fig. 10. Block diagram of the laboratory prototype.
−20

−40
pα0(V)

120 120
−60
80 80
40 40 −80
p (V)
p (V)

0 0 −100
β
β

−40 −40 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
−80 −80 Number of shorted turns

−120 −120
−120−80 −40 0 40 80 120
Fig. 13. Component pα0 as a function of the number of shorted turns.
−120−80 −40 0 40 80 120
pα(V) p (V)
α

(a) (b)
Fig. 11. Signals pβ vs. pα , (a) with no faults (b) five shorted turns.
injection technique that allow decoupling the diagnosis signal
from the motor fundamental excitation.
The stator faults, originated by shorted turns, produce DC
components on the diagnosis signals, which shift the vector P
path on the α − β plane, in the direction of the faulted phase.
The amplitude of the DC component increases for a small
number of shorted turns, tending to a constant value for a high
number of shorted turns. This allows detection for a very small
number of shorted turns, avoiding then that the fault spreads
out to other windings and even phases. Other stator faults,
such as stator core faults, produce detection signals similar to
those produced by winding faults [18]. In a future work, we
will study the isolation of these faults.
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 TABLE I
IM RATED DATA AND PARAMETERS . Symposium on Diagnostics for Electric Machines, Power Electronics
and Drives, 2011. SDEMPED 2011.
Variable Value
Pn (kW/HP) 5.5/7.5
Vn (V) 220/380
Guillermo R. Bossio (S’03 - M’07) received the Electrical Engineer degree
In (A) 19.9/11.1
from the Universidad Nacional de Rı́o Cuarto, Argentina, in 1999, and the Dr.
f (Hz) 50 of Engineering degree from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina,
Tn (Nm) 35.00 in 2004. Since 1994, he has been with the Grupo de Electrónica Aplicada,
Facultad de Ingenierı́a, Universidad Nacional de Rı́o Cuarto. He is also
cosφ 0.82
currently with Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientı́ficas y Técnicas
Efficiency η (%) 86 (CONICET), Argentina. His research interests include fault diagnosis on
electric machines, ac motor drives, electric vehicles, and renewable-energy
Pair of poles 2
generation.
Number of stator slots 48
Number of rotor bars n 40
Air-gap (mm) 0.45
Stator length (m) 0.11 Cristian H. De Angelo (S’96 M’05 - SM’10) received the Electrical Engineer
Air-gap radius (m) 0.075 degree from the Universidad Nacional de Rı́o Cuarto, Rı́o Cuarto, Argentina,
in 1999 and the Dr. of Engineering degree from the Universidad Nacional de
Rotor slot opening (mm) 2.5
La Plata, La Plata,Argentina, in 2004. Since 1994, he has been with the Grupo
Skewing One stator slot period de Electrónica Aplicada, Facultad de Ingenierı́a, Universidad Nacional de Rı́o
Stator winding 34 turns per coil, Cuarto. He is also currently with CONICET, Argentina. His research interests
include fault diagnosis on electric machines, sensorless motor control, electric
2 coil per group,
vehicles, and renewable-energy generation.
4 groups per phase,
in series connection,
step 1:10:12
Pablo de la Barrera (S’99 - GS’08 - M’09) received the Electrical Engineer
and the M.Sc. degrees from Universidad Nacional de Rı́o Cuarto, Argentina,
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4181–4190, 2008. Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina, in 2009. In 1998, he joined the
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