A Nonintrusive Diagnostic Method for Open-Circuit Faults of Locomotive Inverters Based on Output Current Trajectory

Open-circuit (OC) fault diagnosis of voltage source inverters on trains still has two problems to be improved. First, it is usually forbidden to change the system structures of trains or to add any extra sensor. Therefore, diagnostic methods which need pulse width modulation control signals or extra output voltage sensors are no longer suitable for trains. Second, loads on the train vary in a wide range and have significant influence on output currents. In order to solve these problems and increase the maintenance efficiency, an online diagnostic method for single switch OC (SSOC) faults and double switches OC (DSOC) faults is proposed. Supposing that three phases are balanced, it is proved that the trajectory of two output currents is an ellipse in the Cartesian coordination, and each OC fault has a unique trajectory. SSOC faults and DSOC faults can be isolated by detecting abnormal slopes and directions of several consecutive points on the trajectory. The fastest diagnostic process takes less than half a period. Load variation has impact on the size and shape of the trajectory but does not affect the diagnostic method. Experimental tests are carried out on dSPACE platform. Results show the accuracy of the mathematical model and the effectiveness of the online diagnostic method proposed in this paper.

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