Multi-Dimensional Entropy for Vibration Data Quality Control in Wind Turbines: Properties, Deployment, and Industrial Implications

Multi-Dimensional Entropy for Vibration Measurement Data Quality Assessment and Erroneous Signal Identification in Wind Turbines

Ensuring measurement data quality is essential for reliable condition monitoring of industrial wind turbine drivetrains, where vibration measurements can be affected by sensor malfunctions, turbine shutdown conditions, and other non-diagnostic states. Such invalid measurements may compromise the reliability of subsequent monitoring and data-driven analysis procedures. This study proposes a Multi-Dimensional Entropy (MDE) metric as a front-end data quality assessment and control mechanism for vibration measurement validity evaluation. By characterizing signal distributions from multiple perspectives, including time-domain amplitude, spectral amplitude, and frequency-band energy, MDE captures statistical differences between valid and erroneous vibration measurements. By integrating MDE and RMS as feature representations, lightweight machine learning models are employed as evaluation tools to assess the effectiveness of the proposed representation. Experiments on a large-scale, heterogeneous real-world dataset comprising 57,643 vibration samples collected from 12 wind farms and 14 turbine units, covering multiple drivetrain components, diverse sensor brands, and varying sampling configurations over long-term operation, demonstrate that the proposed method achieves over 99 percent accuracy in identifying erroneous vibration measurements. The proposed approach can be deployed as a front-end data quality gate before downstream signal processing, feature extraction, and condition monitoring procedures, ensuring that subsequent analyses are performed using reliable vibration measurements. The results demonstrate the robustness of MDE under heterogeneous sensor configurations and highlight its potential for industrial-scale vibration measurement quality assessment.

Vibration-induced failures in industrial ventilation systems: A predictive maintenance approach

Optimization and Improvement of Operation and Maintenance Efficiency of Condition Monitoring Technology for Offshore Wind Turbines

This study proposes an integrated condition-monitoring and predictive-maintenance framework for offshore wind turbines operating in harsh marine environments. To address the challenges of signal degradation, environmental interference, and limited fault-warning capability, a multi-source sensing architecture is developed based on risk-driven sensor deployment, edge-side signal fusion, and intelligent health assessment. Vibration, temperature, strain, and operational signals are adaptively processed through variance-weighted fusion and denoising strategies to improve data reliability. A CNN– LSTM hybrid model is employed for fault feature extraction and temporal degradation analysis, while a digital-twin-driven health assessment framework is used to quantify health indices and remaining useful life. Maintenance scheduling is further optimized by integrating equipment health conditions, resource constraints, and operational windows. Field validation in an offshore wind farm demonstrates that the proposed diagnostic model achieves a fault identification accuracy of 96.2%, while the predicted remaining useful life of the main bearing decreases from 180 days to 16 days before failure. The proposed framework establishes a closed-loop process linking signal acquisition, intelligent diagnosis, lifetime prediction, and maintenance decision-making, providing an effective engineering solution for reliable condition monitoring and intelligent operation of offshore energy systems.

Enhanced Rotating Machinery Fault Diagnosis Using Holo-Hilbert Spectrum Analysis and Machine Learning

Reliable fault diagnosis in rotating machinery is challenging due to the nonlinear and non-stationary nature of vibration signals. Although time–frequency analysis is widely used, it cannot capture the cross-scale coupling between amplitude-modulated (AM) and frequency-modulated (FM) components that carry essential diagnostic information. This study applies Holo-Hilbert Spectrum Analysis (HHSA) to extract amplitude–frequency modulation features and integrates them with six machine learning classifiers to identify four fault conditions. Random Forest, K-Nearest Neighbors, and Logistic Regression achieve accuracies of up to 99.95%, yielding higher accuracy than Fast Fourier Transform-based features. The proposed framework employs an HHSA-based feature extraction pipeline that effectively captures AM–FM coupling in nonlinear vibration signals. It also provides higher discriminative capability than traditional spectral approaches and maintains robustness across multiple classifiers. This method offers high diagnostic accuracy and strong potential for industrial predictive maintenance. Future work will focus on improving computational efficiency and evaluating the framework under more diverse and realistic operating conditions. Received: 10 September 2025 | Revised: 20 April 2026 | Accepted: 10 June 2026 Conflicts of Interest The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to this work. Data Availability Statement The VBL-VA001 datasets that support the findings of this study are openly available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s42417-023-00959-9, reference number [44]. Author Contribution Statement Van-Trung Nguyen: Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Validation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Data curation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing, Visualization. Ba-Tan Le: Investigation, Data curation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing. Van-Phuong Dao: Methodology, Validation, Writing - review & editing.

Detection of wind turbine hub bolt drop noise based on fusion acoustic features classification

Artificial Neural Network-Based Diagnosis of Wind Turbine Blade Faults Using Vibration Analysis at Constant Operational Speed

Wind turbine blade faults, such as surface erosion, cracks, mass imbalance, and twist deformation, significantly compromise operational efficiency and reliability, thereby increasing maintenance costs. This research presents an artificial neural network (ANN)-based diagnostic approach for identifying five distinct fault states in wind turbine blades using vibration signal data collected at a constant operational speed of 1.3 m/s. The dataset, which encapsulates real-world vibration responses under varying fault conditions, was analyzed to extract amplitude features for classification. A balanced dataset of 500 samples per class was used to ensure robust training and evaluation. The ANN model achieved highly reliable performance, with classification accuracies (CA) of 96.21% (crack), 97.12% (erosion), 95.47% (healthy), 96.04% (twist deformation), and 94.38% (mass imbalance). Corresponding F1-scores were 95.32%, 96.51%, 94.45%, 95.18%, and 93.36%, respectively. These results confirm the model's effectiveness in distinguishing between common wind turbine blade faults and healthy conditions. This study demonstrates the potential of ANN-based systems for intelligent fault detection in wind energy systems, aiding in the advancement of condition-based maintenance and operational safety.