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The electrical current signal data is collected for five different types of fault and one normal operating condition of the induction motors. The first part of the methodology illustrates a pattern recognition technique based on the empirical wavelet transform, to transform the raw current signal into two dimensional (2-D) grayscale images comprising the information related to the faults. Second, a deep CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) model is proposed to automatically extract robust features from the grayscale images to diagnose the faults in the induction motors. The experimental results show that the proposed methodology achieves a competitive accuracy in the fault diagnosis of the induction motors and that it outperformed the traditional statistical and other deep learning methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym11101212","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,9,30]],"date-time":"2019-09-30T05:58:33Z","timestamp":1569823113000},"page":"1212","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":110,"title":["Fault Diagnosis System for Induction Motors by CNN Using Empirical Wavelet Transform"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0295-2972","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yu-Min","family":"Hsueh","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 10607, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Veeresh Ramesh","family":"Ittangihal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 10607, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wei-Bin","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 10607, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hong-Chan","family":"Chang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 10607, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4990-0459","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Cheng-Chien","family":"Kuo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 10607, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,9,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"39","DOI":"10.1109\/TEC.1986.4765668","article-title":"Assessment of the Reliability of Motors in Utility Applications\u2014Updated","volume":"EC-1","author":"Albrecht","year":"1986","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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