Abstract:The excitation system is directly related to the progress of power production and task completion quality in hydropower plants. Therefore, the fault analysis and improvement measures of excitation system in hydropower plants are proposed. In the phase of fault analysis, the fault recording of magnetic system is carried out by pressure sensor, which is amplified, filtered and isolated. As a sample, it is input into artificial neural network to realize fault identification and analysis of excitation system. In the phase of fault improvement, according to the results of fault analysis, several common faults, namely power cabinet fault, regulator fault, loss of field fault, rectifier power fault, fuse burst fault, inverter de excitation fault, are studied and improved, and improvement measures are put forward. The experimental results show that the method based on neural network algorithm is used to analyze the excitation system fault of hydropower plant, which proves the accuracy of the analysis and provides a reliable basis for the subsequent improvement measures.