In the maintenance system of wind power units, shaft centerline orbit is an important feature to diagnosis the status of the unit. This paper presents the diagnosis of the orbit as follows: acquire characters of orbit by the affine invariant moments, take this as the characteristic parameters of neural networks to construct the identification model, utilize Simulated Annealing (SA) Algorithm to optimize the weights matrix of Hopfield neural network, and then some typical faults were selected as

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... examples to identify. Experiment's results show that SA-Hopfield identification model performed better than the previous methods.