Patent ID: 8275574

Claim:
A system for automatically detecting corona effects in operating dynamic electromechanical equipment comprising: at least one sensor connected to operating dynamic electromechanical equipment for measuring behavior of emitted signals of the operating dynamic electromechanical equipment; a controller connected to the at least one sensor and to the operating dynamic electromechanical equipment for adjusting emitted signals of the operating dynamic electromechanical equipment to correct for errors detected by the at least one sensor in the emitted signals; and a corona phenomena detection device connected to the operating dynamic electromechanical equipment for automatically detecting corona effects of the operating dynamic electromechanical equipment using digital frequency domain processing to perform a Fourier transformation on a captured waveform of the emitted signals to digitally create a digital signature of the emitted signals; wherein the corona phenomena detection device comprises a capture component for capturing the captured waveform of the emitted signals, a signature extraction component for extracting the digital signature of the captured waveform based on the Fourier transformation, and a coefficient extraction component for extracting coefficients of the Fourier transformation.