Chinese Journal of Electrical Engineering ›› 2015, Vol. 1 ›› Issue (1): 21-36.

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Overview of Fault Diagnosis Theory and Method for Permanent Magnet Machine

Ming Cheng*, Jun Hang, Jianzhong Zhang   

  1. School of Electrical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China
  • Online:2015-12-25 Published:2015-12-25
  • About author:FIEEE and FIET, received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 1982 and 1987, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 2001.
    Since 1987, Prof. Cheng has been with Southeast University, where he is currently a Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering. His teaching and research interests include electrical machines, motor drives for EV, and renewable energy generation. He has authored or co-authored more than 300 technical papers and 4 books, and is the holder of 80 patents in these areas.
    Prof. Cheng has served as the Chair and an Organizing Committee Member for many international conferences. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Industry Applications Society for 2015/2016.
    Jun Hang received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Anhui University of Science & Technology, Huainan, China, in 2008 and 2011, respectively. He is currently working toward the Ph. D degree in Electrical Engineering at Southeast University, Nanjing, China. His current research interests include condition monitoring, fault diagnosis, permanent magnet machine and wind power generation.
    Jianzhong Zhang received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2005 and 2008, respectively.Since 2008, he has been with Southeast University, where he is currently a Research Professor in the school of Electrical Engineering. His research interests include electric machines, power electronics, and wind power generation. In recent years he has authored and co-authored over 80 technical papers and 25 Chinese patents.
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    mcheng@seu.edu.cn

Abstract: Permanent magnet (PM) machines have been widely used in a variety of industrial and military applications due to their definite advantages of high power density and high efficiency. In some applications such as electric vehicles (EVs) and aircrafts, high reliability and security of the PM machine are critical. Hence, there is rapidly growing interest in strategies to improve the reliability and security of the PM machine from both academia and industry, where fault diagnosis is a requirement. In this paper, common faults of the PM machine are discussed, state of the art in fault diagnosis of PM machine are overviewed in detail, and different fault diagnosis methods are analyzed and compared. Finally, the development tendency of fault diagnosis techniques for the PM machine is prospected.

Key words: Permanent magnet machine, fault diagnosis, electrical fault, mechanical fault, magnetic fault, reliability, fault tolerant, overview.