Prediction of induction motor faults using machine learning

Unplanned downtime in industrial sectors presents significant challenges, impacting both production efficiency and profitability. To tackle this issue, companies are actively working towards optimizing their operations and reducing disruptions that hinder their ability to meet customer demands and f...

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Main Authors: Ademola Abdulkareem, Tochukwu Anyim, Olawale Popoola, John Abubakar, Agbetuyi Ayoade
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Published: Elsevier 2025-01-01
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author Ademola Abdulkareem
Tochukwu Anyim
Olawale Popoola
John Abubakar
Agbetuyi Ayoade
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Tochukwu Anyim
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John Abubakar
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description Unplanned downtime in industrial sectors presents significant challenges, impacting both production efficiency and profitability. To tackle this issue, companies are actively working towards optimizing their operations and reducing disruptions that hinder their ability to meet customer demands and financial goals. Predictive maintenance, utilizing advanced technologies like data analytics, machine learning, and IoT devices, offers real-time equipment data monitoring and analysis. This research study centers on the development of a versatile machine-learning model for predicting faults in induction motors within industrial environments. Implementing such a model can enable proactive maintenance, ultimately leading to decreased downtime in industrial operations. The study involved the acquisition of a dataset comprising healthy and faulty conditions of four 3-phase induction motors, along with relevant features for fault prediction. Multiple machine learning algorithms were trained using this dataset, exhibiting promising performance. The Random Forest (RF) model achieved the highest accuracy at 0.91, closely followed by the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and k-nearest Neighbors (k-NN) models, both achieving an accuracy of 0.9. Meanwhile, the Decision Tree (DT) model showed the lowest accuracy at 0.89. Further model evaluation was carried out using a confusion matrix, which provided a detailed breakdown of the models' performance for each class, revealing the number of correctly and incorrectly classified induction motor conditions. The results from the confusion matrix indicate that the models effectively classified the various states and conditions of the induction motors. To enhance model performance in future work, potential avenues include refining the ANN and RF models, exploring transfer learning or ensemble methods, and incorporating diverse datasets to improve generalization.
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spelling doaj-art-56db0063a25e44f1a1c2b2635c340fdf2025-01-17T04:51:26ZengElsevierHeliyon2405-84402025-01-01111e41493Prediction of induction motor faults using machine learningAdemola Abdulkareem0Tochukwu Anyim1Olawale Popoola2John Abubakar3Agbetuyi Ayoade4Electrical and Information Engineering Department, Covenant University, P.M.B 1023, Ota, 112212, Ogun State, Nigeria; Corresponding author.Electrical and Information Engineering Department, Covenant University, P.M.B 1023, Ota, 112212, Ogun State, NigeriaElectrical Engineering Department, Centre for Energy and Electric Power, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, Tshwane University of Technology, NigeriaDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, BO, ItalyElectrical and Information Engineering Department, Covenant University, P.M.B 1023, Ota, 112212, Ogun State, NigeriaUnplanned downtime in industrial sectors presents significant challenges, impacting both production efficiency and profitability. To tackle this issue, companies are actively working towards optimizing their operations and reducing disruptions that hinder their ability to meet customer demands and financial goals. Predictive maintenance, utilizing advanced technologies like data analytics, machine learning, and IoT devices, offers real-time equipment data monitoring and analysis. This research study centers on the development of a versatile machine-learning model for predicting faults in induction motors within industrial environments. Implementing such a model can enable proactive maintenance, ultimately leading to decreased downtime in industrial operations. The study involved the acquisition of a dataset comprising healthy and faulty conditions of four 3-phase induction motors, along with relevant features for fault prediction. Multiple machine learning algorithms were trained using this dataset, exhibiting promising performance. The Random Forest (RF) model achieved the highest accuracy at 0.91, closely followed by the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and k-nearest Neighbors (k-NN) models, both achieving an accuracy of 0.9. Meanwhile, the Decision Tree (DT) model showed the lowest accuracy at 0.89. Further model evaluation was carried out using a confusion matrix, which provided a detailed breakdown of the models' performance for each class, revealing the number of correctly and incorrectly classified induction motor conditions. The results from the confusion matrix indicate that the models effectively classified the various states and conditions of the induction motors. To enhance model performance in future work, potential avenues include refining the ANN and RF models, exploring transfer learning or ensemble methods, and incorporating diverse datasets to improve generalization.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240584402417524XArtificial neural network classifierDecision tree classifierRandom Forest classifierk-NN classifierInduction motorsPredictive maintenance
spellingShingle Ademola Abdulkareem
Tochukwu Anyim
Olawale Popoola
John Abubakar
Agbetuyi Ayoade
Prediction of induction motor faults using machine learning
Heliyon
Artificial neural network classifier
Decision tree classifier
Random Forest classifier
k-NN classifier
Induction motors
Predictive maintenance
title Prediction of induction motor faults using machine learning
title_full Prediction of induction motor faults using machine learning
title_fullStr Prediction of induction motor faults using machine learning
title_full_unstemmed Prediction of induction motor faults using machine learning
title_short Prediction of induction motor faults using machine learning
title_sort prediction of induction motor faults using machine learning
topic Artificial neural network classifier
Decision tree classifier
Random Forest classifier
k-NN classifier
Induction motors
Predictive maintenance
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240584402417524X
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