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Condition monitoring is central to the efficient operation of wind farms due to the challenging operating conditions, rapid technology development and large number of aging wind turbines. In particular, predictive maintenance planning…
Time series processing is an essential aspect of wind turbine health monitoring. Despite the progress in this field, there is still room for new methods to improve modeling quality. In this paper, we propose two new approaches for the…
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