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Misalignment faults between the gearbox and the generator are one of the latent common faults for doubly-fed wind turbines. Compared with other faults like gears and bearings, the prediction research of misalignment faults for wind turbines is relatively few. How to accurately predict its developing trend has always been a difficulty. In this paper, a combined forecasting model is proposed for misalignment fault prediction of wind turbines based on vibration and current signals. In the modelling, the improved Multivariate Grey Model (IMGM) is used to predict the deterministic trend and the Least Squares Support Vector Machine (LSSVM) optimized by quantum genetic algorithm (QGA) is adopted to predict the stochastic trend of the fault index separately, and another LSSVM optimized by QGA is used as a non-linear combiner. Multiple information of time-domain, frequency-domain and time-frequency domain of the wind turbine\u2019s vibration or current signals are extracted as the input vectors of the combined forecasting model and the kurtosis index is regarded as the output. The simulation results show that the proposed combined model has higher prediction accuracy than the single forecasting models.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/a13030056","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,3,2]],"date-time":"2020-03-02T04:16:16Z","timestamp":1583122576000},"page":"56","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Misalignment Fault Prediction of Wind Turbines Based on Combined Forecasting Model"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Yancai","family":"Xiao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical, Electronic and Control Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhe","family":"Hua","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical, Electronic and Control Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,3,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1065","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jclepro.2018.07.288","article-title":"Spatial assessment of wind power potential at global scale. 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