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The voltage signal divided into 5 time segments. In the
first time interval, the voltage constrains only a fre-
quency: 50 Hz. At time 0.3, the voltage constrains an-
other harmonic: 150 Hz. In the time interval 0.6 1.4t
,
the voltage constrains a linear time changing harmonic.
Then at 1.4 s, the harmonic, 350 Hz, added to the signal.
Finally, the voltage retain normally at 1.7 s.
The sampling frequency is 1000 Hz. Figure 2 (a) is
the improved chirplet transform plot of (16). Figure 2(b)
is the contour plot of the signal (a) using (13) and (14).
Form Figure 2(b), we find the ICT contour illustrates the
work frequency 50 Hz, two harmonic frequency 150 Hz
and 350 Hz, and the linear time changing frequency 50 +
0.2 t Hz.
Moreover, the contour in Figure 2(b) clearly shows
the harmonic occurrence times and durations.
In order to investigate the influence of initial phase,
we modulating the above simulating voltage signal with
pi/3 phase. From Figure 3, we find that the initial phase
does not influence the harmonic detection.
5. Conclusions
The chirplet transform is the generalization form of fast
Fourier transform, short-time Fourier transform, and
wavelet transform. It has the most flexible time fre-
quency window and successfully used in practices.
However, the chirplet transform has not inherent recon-
structing formulae. So we proposed the improved chir-
plet transform (ICT) and constructed the inverse ICT.
Finally, the power of the improved chirplet transform is
apparent from the above examples.
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