Demagnetization fault diagnosis of a PMSM using auto-encoder and k-means clustering

In recent years, many motor fault diagnosis methods have been proposed by analyzing vibration, sound, electrical signals, etc. To detect motor fault without additional sensors, in this study, we developed a fault diagnosis methodology using the signals from a motor servo driver. Based on the servo driver signals, the demagnetization fault diagnosis of permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) was implemented using an autoencoder and K-means algorithm. In this study, the PMSM demagnetization fault diagnosis was performed in three states: normal, mild demagnetization fault, and severe demagnetization fault. The experimental results indicate that the proposed method can achieve 96% accuracy to reveal the demagnetization of PMSMs.