Fault Detection Method for Power Conversion Circuits Using Thermal Image and Convolutional Autoencoder

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Main Authors: Katayama, Noboru, Ishida, Rintaro
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Published: 2025
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author Katayama, Noboru
Ishida, Rintaro
author_facet Katayama, Noboru
Ishida, Rintaro
contents A fault detection method for power conversion circuits using thermal images and a convolutional autoencoder is presented. The autoencoder is trained on thermal images captured from a commercial power module at randomly varied load currents and augmented image2 generated through image processing techniques such as resizing, rotation, perspective transformation, and bright and contrast adjustment. Since the autoencoder is trained to output images identical to input only for normal samples, it reconstructs images similar to normal ones even when the input images containing faults. A small heater is attached to the circuit board to simulate a fault on a power module, and then thermal images were captured from different angles and positions, as well as various load currents to test the trained autoencoder model. The areas under the curve (AUC) were obtained to evaluate the proposed method. The results show the autoencoder model can detect anomalies with 100% accuracy under given conditions. The influence of hyperparameters such as the number of convolutional layers and image augmentation conditions on anomaly detection accuracy was also investigated.
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spellingShingle Fault Detection Method for Power Conversion Circuits Using Thermal Image and Convolutional Autoencoder
Katayama, Noboru
Ishida, Rintaro
Image and Video Processing
Systems and Control
A fault detection method for power conversion circuits using thermal images and a convolutional autoencoder is presented. The autoencoder is trained on thermal images captured from a commercial power module at randomly varied load currents and augmented image2 generated through image processing techniques such as resizing, rotation, perspective transformation, and bright and contrast adjustment. Since the autoencoder is trained to output images identical to input only for normal samples, it reconstructs images similar to normal ones even when the input images containing faults. A small heater is attached to the circuit board to simulate a fault on a power module, and then thermal images were captured from different angles and positions, as well as various load currents to test the trained autoencoder model. The areas under the curve (AUC) were obtained to evaluate the proposed method. The results show the autoencoder model can detect anomalies with 100% accuracy under given conditions. The influence of hyperparameters such as the number of convolutional layers and image augmentation conditions on anomaly detection accuracy was also investigated.
title Fault Detection Method for Power Conversion Circuits Using Thermal Image and Convolutional Autoencoder
topic Image and Video Processing
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08150