Scientometric Review of Artificial Intelligence for Operations & Maintenance of Wind Turbines: The Past, Present and Future

Wind energy has emerged as a highly promising source of renewable energy in recent times. However, wind turbines regularly suffer from operational inconsistencies, leading to significant costs and challenges in operations and maintenance (O&M). Condition-based monitoring (CBM) and performance assessment/analysis of turbines are vital aspects for ensuring efficient O&M planning and cost minimisation. Data-driven decision making techniques have witnessed rapid evolution in the wind industry for such O&M tasks during the last decade, from applying signal processing methods in early 2010 to artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, especially deep learning in 2020. In this article, we utilise statistical computing to present a scientometric review of the conceptual and thematic evolution of AI in the wind energy sector, providing evidence-based insights into present strengths and limitations of data-driven decision making in the wind industry. We provide a perspective into the future and on current key challenges in data availability and quality, lack of transparency in black box-natured AI models, and prevailing issues in deploying models for real-time decision support, along with possible strategies to overcome these problems. We hope that a systematic analysis of the past, present and future of CBM and performance assessment can encourage more organisations to adopt data-driven decision making techniques in O&M towards making wind energy sources more reliable, contributing to the global efforts of tackling climate change.

XAI4Wind: A Multimodal Knowledge Graph Database for Explainable Decision Support in Operations & Maintenance of Wind Turbines

Condition-based monitoring (CBM) has been widely utilised in the wind industry for monitoring operational inconsistencies and failures in turbines, with techniques ranging from signal processing and vibration analysis to artificial intelligence (AI) models using Supervisory Control & Acquisition (SCADA) data. However, existing studies do not present a concrete basis to facilitate explainable decision support in operations and maintenance (O&M), particularly for automated decision support through recommendation of appropriate maintenance action reports corresponding to failures predicted by CBM techniques. Knowledge graph databases (KGs) model a collection of domain-specific information and have played an intrinsic role for real-world decision support in domains such as healthcare and finance, but have seen very limited attention in the wind industry. We propose XAI4Wind, a multimodal knowledge graph for explainable decision support in real-world operational turbines and demonstrate through experiments several use-cases of the proposed KG towards O&M planning through interactive query and reasoning and providing novel insights using graph data science algorithms. The proposed KG combines multimodal knowledge like SCADA parameters and alarms with natural language maintenance actions, images etc. By integrating our KG with an Explainable AI model for anomaly prediction, we show that it can provide effective human-intelligible O&M strategies for predicted operational inconsistencies in various turbine sub-components. This can help instil better trust and confidence in conventionally black-box AI models. We make our KG publicly available and envisage that it can serve as the building ground for providing autonomous decision support in the wind industry.

A Novel Approach Towards Identification of Alcohol and Drug Induced People

The paper proposes a novel approach towards identification of alcohol and drug induced people, through the use of a wearable bracelet.As alcohol and drug induced human people are in an unconscious state of mind, they need external help from the surroundings.With proposed Bracelet system we can identify the alcohol and drug indused people and warning trigger message is sent to their care takers. There is a definite relationship between an individual's Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) and Pulse Rate to identify the alcohol or drug consumed person .This relationship of pulse rate with BAC is sensed by piezoelectric sensor and warning system is developed as a Bracelet device . The viability of the Bracelet is verified by Simulating a Database of 199 People's BAC and Pulse Rate Features and classification is done among the Alcohol Induced and Normal People. For classification,Ensemble Boosted Tree Algorithm is used which is having 81.9% accuracy in decision.

A Deep Learning Approach Towards Prediction of Faults in Wind Turbines

With the rising costs of conventional sources of energy, the world is moving towards sustainable energy sources including wind energy. Wind turbines consist of several electrical and mechanical components and experience an enormous amount of irregular loads, making their operational behaviour at times inconsistent. Operations and Maintenance (O&M) is a key factor in monitoring such inconsistent behaviour of the turbines in order to predict and prevent any incipient faults which may occur in the near future. Machine learning has been applied to the domain of wind energy over the last decade for analysing, diagnosing and predicting wind turbine faults. In particular, we follow the idea of modelling a turbine's performance as a power curve where any power outputs that fall off the curve can be seen as performance errors. Existing work using this idea has used data from a turbine's Supervisory Control & Acquisition (SCADA) system to filter and analyse fault & alarm data using regression techniques. In contrast to previous work, we explore how deep learning can be applied to fault prediction from open access meteorological data only.