Fault Diagnosis for Power Converters Based on Optimized Temporal Convolutional Network

In this article, the fault diagnosis problem for power converters is considered. Given that the existing fault diagnosis models rarely address the problems of the data noise and the new faults that are never emerged in the database, thus, an optimized fault diagnosis model for power converters based on temporal convolutional network (TCN) is proposed. Our contributions include the following: 1) unknown faults can be efficiently distinguished with an optimized classifier; 2) the proposed model has good robustness and reliability under noisy environment without any subsidiary predenoising algorithm; and 3) it can realize adaptive feature extraction, and the parameters are small. Experimental results on a three-phase voltage inverter platform demonstrate that the proposed approach is efficient and can be adaptively applied to various real applications.