Sigma-Mixed Unscented Kalman Filter-Based Fault Detection for Traction Systems in High-Speed Trains

Fault detection (FD) for traction systems is one of the active topics in the railway and academia because it is the initial step for the running reliability and safety of high-speed trains. Heterogeneity of data and complexity of systems have brought new challenges to the traditional FD methods. For addressing these challenges, this paper designs an FD algorithm based on the improved unscented Kalman filter (UKF) with consideration of performance degradation. It is derived by incorporating a degradation process into the state-space model. The network topology of traction systems is taken into consideration for improving the performance of state estimation. We first obtain the mixture distribution by the mixture of sigma points in UKF. Then, the Levy process with jump points is introduced to construct the degradation model. Finally, the moving average interstate standard deviation (MAISD) is designed for detecting faults. Verifying the proposed methods via a traction systems in a certain type of trains obtains satisfactory results.