Current Characteristics Analysis and Fault Injection of an Early Weak Fault in Broken Rotor Bar of Traction Motor

Abstract

Aiming at the destructive and irreversible problems of the broken rotor bar fault of the traction motor, the current characteristics of the early weak fault of the single bar are analyzed, and the broken rotor bar fault simulation injection is realized on the experimental platform. Firstly, a damage factor from the change rule of the metal resistance value of a rotor bar is defined. By means of such a damage factor, the relationship between the severity of the fracture of a single rotor bar and the phase resistance of the traction motor was obtained. Through the superposition principle, the traction motor in the fault of the rotor bar was regarded as a normal motor in which the reverse current source was superimposed on the fault rotor bar. The characteristic values of the stator current fault component were obtained when the single bar had broken. Finally, the relationship between the fault characteristics component of the stator current and the fracture severity of the single rotor bar was established. On this basis, on hardware-in-the-loop fault injection benchmark of the traction drive control system based on dSPACE, the gradual injection of early weak faults in the early broken rotor bar was carried out and the results were analyzed. The experimental data demonstrated the correctness of the current characteristics analysis and fault injection.

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