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To overcome these limitations, this study proposes a wavelet-based health monitoring structure for detecting electrical and mechanical faults using motor current signal analysis. A dynamic model of the train door actuation mechanism, including a DC motor, gearbox, and lead screw, was developed in MATLAB\/Simulink to simulate conditions such as armature electrical faults, brush wear, increased friction, and lead screw misalignment. Motor current signals were analyzed using the Discrete Wavelet Transform with a Daubechies (db10) mother wavelet to extract diagnostic features based on the L1-norms of wavelet coefficients at levels W8 and W9 along with the motor starting current peak. 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