Squirrel cage induction motors are the most
common electric machines employed in industrial
environments. Periodic online condition monitoring should
be performed for early electrical and mechanical fault
detection, thus preventing further deterioration of the
machine in case a fault is present. Motor current signature
analysis is usually used for online fault detection and
different algorithms that fall in this category have recently
been proposed. In this paper, the spectrum of the RMS value
of the stator current is used to detect the presence of rotor
static eccentricity.