Detection of rotor faults in brushless DC motors operating under nonstationary conditions

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1464-1477

  Rajagopalan, Satish ^a   Aller, José M ^b   Restrepo, José A ^b   Habetler, Thomas G ^a   Harley, Ronald G ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Condition monitoring; Eccentricity; Electric machines; Nonstationary; Rotor faults; Spectrogram; Wigner Ville distribution (WVD)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONDITION MONITORING; ROTORS; SPECTROGRAPHS;

ECCENTRICITY; WIGNER-VILLE DISTRIBUTION; WINDOWED FOURIER RIDGES;

DC MOTORS;

EID: 37849186202     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2006.882613     Document Type: Article

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