Fault early warning of pitch system of wind turbine based on GA-BP neural network model

North China Electric Power University, Baoding, 071000, China

Abstract

A fault early warning method based on genetic algorithm to optimize the BP neural network for the wind turbine pitch system is proposed. According to the parameters monitored by SCADA system, using correlation analysis to screen out the parameters of the pitch system with strong power correlation. The BP neural network optimized by genetic algorithm is used to establish the model of the pitch system under normal working conditions. The verification results show that the input parameters of the pitch system model determined by the correlation coefficient are more reasonable, and the accuracy of the pitch system model established by the genetic algorithm-optimized BP neural network is higher than that of the unoptimized model. Based on the above model, a sliding window model is established, and the early warning threshold is determined through the statistics of the residuals of the sliding window to realize the fault early warning of the pitch system of the wind turbine. The example shows that the method can give early warning in the event of failure, and verifies the effectiveness of the method.