Journal of Electrical Engineering ›› 2018, Vol. 13 ›› Issue (2): 9-14.doi: 10.11985/2018.02.002

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Application of EMD Algorithm to Analyze Voltage Signals of EAST Superconducting Coils

Yuanyang Chen1,Xiaohua Bao1,Ge Gao2,Yang Zhou1   

  1. 1. Hefei University of Technology Hefei 230009 China
    2. Institute of Plasma Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei 230031 China
  • Received:2017-01-12 Online:2018-04-25 Published:2020-04-10

Abstract:

In experimental advanced superconducting Tokamak (EAST) device, during the quench process of a superconducting coil, the voltage variation caused by change in coil resistance is so small that is submersed in the background noise. To solve the problem, the time-frequency characteristic of the coil voltage signals is analyzed by Fourier decomposition, then the coil voltage signals is decomposed into several intrinsic mode functions (IMF) and the remainder by empirical mode decomposition (EMD). The result shows that the energy of weak signal is distributed mainly in the remainder and the weak variation can be extracted from the noise by EMD.

Key words: Weak signal, empirical mode decomposition, coil voltage, the remainder

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