Development of gear fault identification of wind turbine’s transmission system based on VMD and FNN

In order to improve the safety of wind turbine, this paper takes the high-speed spur gear on output shaft in the transmission system of the wind turbine as the study object. The original signals of the gear in different fault states which obtained from the experimental platform decompose by the empirical mode decomposition method (EMD) and the variational mode decomposition method (VMD), respectively. Then the different gear fault types’ eigenvectors were built. Fuzzy neural network (FNN) is adopted to learn the fault types and eigenvector samples of gears, and then the fault types of gears are identified. It is found that the fault features decomposed by VMD method have reached a high accurate recognition rate point to the fact that VMD has good applicability in the fault recognition of gear in wind turbine.