Pre-trained 1DCNN-BiLSTM Hybrid Network for Temperature Prediction of Wind Turbine Gearboxes

The safety and stability of a wind turbine is determined by the health condition of its gearbox. The temperature variation, compared with other characteristics of the gearbox, can directly and sensitively reflect its health conditions. However, the existing deep learning models (including the single model and the hybrid model) have their limitations in dealing with nonlinear and complex temperature data, making it challenging to achieve high-precision prediction results. In order to tackle this issue, this paper introduces a novel two-phase deep learning network for predicting the temperature of wind turbine gearboxes. In the first phase, a one-dimensional convolutional neural network (1DCNN) and a bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) network are separately trained using the same dataset. The two pre-trained networks are combined and fine-tuned to form the 1DCNN-BiLSTM model for the accurate prediction of gearbox temperatures in the second phase. The proposed model was trained and validated by measured datasets from gearboxes from an existing wind farm. The effectiveness of the model presented was showcased through a comparative analysis with five traditional models, and the result has clearly shown that the proposed model has a great improvement in its prediction accuracy. © 2023 by the authors.