A Model-Based Fault Detection Methodology for Vacuum Circuit Breaker

Vacuum circuit breaker becomes more and more complicated, integrated, high-speed and intellectualized. To insure vacuum circuit breaker in its good conditions, the function of fault diagnosis gets more important than before in the process of repairing. This paper is addressed a model-based fault detection methodology for vacuum circuit breaker. At first, the dynamic model of vacuum circuit breaker is built. Secondly, DTW algorithm is introduced to compute the similarity value between the test data and the theoretical data. At last, the value comparison between the similarity and the threshold concludes whether a fault has occurred or the vacuum circuit breaker has potential hazardous effects. The experimental results show that this method is effective.