Feature selection plays a critical role in designing efficient and interpretable condition monitoring frameworks for electrical drives. In this paper, a correlation analysis of statistical and spectral features is performed for Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) fault detection in naval windlass systems. Using both simulated data from a MATLAB/Simulink model and real shipboard current signals acquired from five Nigerian Navy vessels over one-month monitoring periods, higher-order statistical moments (Mean, Variance, Standard Deviation, Skewness, Kurtosis) and the Fault Severity Index (FSI) were computed alongside Total Harmonic Distortion (THD). Pearson correlation coefficients were employed to quantify feature relationships under healthy and faulty operating modes, while scatter-plot clustering was used to visualize feature separability across six fault classes. The dataset comprised 2,880 observation windows per vessel (2 kHz sampling, 60-minute windows with 30-minute overlap), yielding a total analytical corpus of 14,400 windows from ship data and 12,000 high-resolution windows from simulation. Results demonstrated strong correlations between variance, standard deviation, and FSI (r ≥ 0.80–0.99), confirming their redundancy. Kurtosis and skewness exhibited weaker correlations with other first- and second-order features (r < 0.60) but showed a moderate inter-correlation of r = 0.88 with each other, indicating shared higher-order sensitivity. THD demonstrated weak correlations with all time-domain statistical moments (r < 0.65), confirming its role as an independent spectral indicator. All reported coefficients were statistically significant (p < 0.001, df = n − 2). The study highlights the potential for dimensionality reduction in PMSM diagnostic frameworks without compromising detection accuracy, with practical guidance for real-time embedded naval monitoring systems.
A physics-guided hybrid diagnostic architecture has been developed for assessing demagnetization in PMSM that provides a scalable, interpretable, and cost-effective solution for predictive maintenance and real-time fault diagnosis of PMSMs.
Jayant N Ramesh, A. V, S. P. et al.· Engineering Research Express· 0 citations
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.
Van-Trung Nguyen, Ba-Tan Le, van-Phuong Dao· Journal of Computational and...· 0 citations
A new predictive maintenance model that incorporates multi-domain feature extraction, and hybrid feature selection approach and optimized ensemble classifier to facilitate high-fidelity fault detection in four operational modes is proposed, affirming its suitability for deployment in industrial cyber-physical monitoring systems.
Premsagar D Patil· Materials Research Proceedin...· 0 citations
The proposed framework provides an effective balance between diagnostic accuracy, robustness, interpretability, and computational efficiency, making it a promising solution for intelligent condition monitoring and predictive maintenance of rotating machinery.
Rohit Mishra· Journal of engineering and a...· 0 citations
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