Abstract:Inverters are widely used in many fields of industrial production. The performance degradation or malfunction of components would occur during running, resulting in economic losses and even casualties. In order to improve the reliability of the inverter and identify the fault type when the inverter fails, a fault diagnosis method based on Gaussian mixture model is proposed. Taking the resonant inverter power supply as an example, several typical faults of the inverter are analyzed, and the time-frequency characteristics of the faults are extracted. Then the Gaussian mixture model is trained using fault characteristics, and EM algorithm is used to predict the output of the test data. The model of the parallel resonant inverter circuit was established in Simulink, and several typical power failure states were simulated. Simulation experiments verify the effectiveness and accuracy of the proposed fault diagnosis method. The fault diagnosis method is easy to implement and the predictive accuracy of the model is as high as 93.2%. It can be applied to the fault diagnosis of industrial inverters and other fields.