Sensor Fault Diagnosis and Reconstruction of Engine Control System Based on Autoassociative Neural Network

The topology and property of Autoassociative Neural Networks(AANN) and theAANN's application to sensor fault diagnosis and reconstruction of engine control system arestudied. The key feature of AANN is feature extract and noise filtering. Sensor fault detection isaccomplished by integrating the optimal estimation and fault detection logic. Digital simulationshows that the scheme can detect hard and soft failures of sensors at the absence of models forengines which have performance deteriorate in the service life, and can provide good analyticalredundancy.

SIMULATION INVESTIGATION OF AEROENGINE FAULT DIAGNOSIS USING NEURAL NETWORKS

Traditional scheduled maintenance systems are costly, labor intensive, and typically provide noncomprehensive detection and diagnosis of engine faults. The engine monitoring system (EMS) on modern aircrafts has the potential to provide maintenance personnel with valuable information for detecting and diagnosing engine faults. In this paper, an RBF neural network approach is applied to aeroengine gas path fault diagnosis. It can detect multiple faults and quantify the amount of deterioration of the various engine components as a function of measured parameters. The results obtained demonstrate that the accuracy of diagnosis is consistent with practical requirements. The approach takes advantage of the nonlinear mapping feature of neural networks to capture the appropriate characteristics of an aeroengine. The methodology is generic and applicable to other similar plants having high complexity.

An Intelligent Process Fault Diagnosis System based on Andrews Plot and Convolutional Neural Network

This paper proposes an intelligent process fault diagnosis system through integrating the techniques of Andrews plot and convolutional neural network.The proposed fault diagnosis method extracts features from the on-line process measurements using Andrews function.To address the uncertainty of setting the proper dimension of extracted features in Andrews function,a convolutional neural network is used to further extract diagnostic information from the Andrews function outputs.The outputs of the convolutional neural network are then fed to a single hidden layer neural network to obtain the final fault diagnosis result.The proposed fault diagnosis system is compared with a conventional neural network based fault diagnosis system and integrating Andrews function with neural network and manual selection of features in Andrews function outputs.Applications to a simulated CSTR process show that the proposed fault diagnosis system gives much better performance than the conventional neural network based fault diagnosis system and manual selection of features in Andrews function outputs.It reveals that the use of Andrews function and convolutional neural network can improve the diagnosis performance.

Fault Diagnosis for Manifold Absolute Pressure Sensor(MAP) of Diesel Engine Based on Elman Neural Network Observer

Intake system of diesel engine is a strong nonlinear system, and it is difficult to establish accurate model of intake system; and bias fault and precision degradation fault of MAP of diesel engine can＇t be diagnosed easily using model-based methods. Thus, a fault diagnosis method based on Elman neural network observer is proposed. By comparing simulation results of intake pressure based on BP network and Elman neural network, lower sampling error magnitude is gained using Elman neural network, and the error is less volatile. Forecast accuracy is between 0.015？0.017 5 and sample error is controlled within 0？0.07. Considering the output stability and complexity of solving comprehensively, Elman neural network with a single hidden layer and with 44 nodes is presented as intake system observer. By comparing the relations of confidence intervals of the residual value between the measured and predicted values, error variance and failures in various fault types. Then four typical MAP faults of diesel engine can be diagnosed： complete failure fault, bias fault, precision degradation fault and drift fault. The simulation results show： intake pressure is observable and selection of diagnostic strategy parameter reasonably can increase the accuracy of diagnosis;the proposed fault diagnosis method only depends on data and structural parameters of observer, not depends on the nonlinear model of air intake system. A fault diagnosis method is proposed not depending system model to observe intake pressure, and bias fault and precision degradation fault of MAP of diesel engine can be diagnosed based on residuals.

Fault Diagnosis of Valve Clearance in Diesel Engine Based on BP Neural Network and Support Vector Machine

Based on wavelet packet transformation(WPT), genetic algorithm(GA), back propagation neural network(BPNN)and support vector machine(SVM), a fault diagnosis method of diesel engine valve clearance is presented. With power spectral density analysis, the characteristic frequency related to the engine running conditions can be extracted from vibration signals. The biggest singular values(BSV)of wavelet coefficients and root mean square(RMS)values of vibration in characteristic frequency sub-bands are extracted at the end of third level decomposition of vibration signals, and they are used as input vectors of BPNN or SVM. To avoid being trapped in local minima, GA is adopted. The normal and fault vibration signals measured in different valve clearance conditions are analyzed. BPNN, GA back propagation neural network(GA-BPNN), SVM and GA-SVM are applied to the training and testing for the extraction of different features, and the classification accuracies and training time are compared to determine the optimum fault classifier and feature selection. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed features and classification algorithms give classification accuracy of 100%.

Fault diagnosis method of hydraulic system based on fusion of neural network and D-S evidence theory

According to fault type diversity and fault information uncertainty problem of the hydraulic driven rocket launcher servo system（HDRLSS） , the fault diagnosis method based on the evidence theory and neural network ensemble is proposed. In order to overcome the shortcomings of the single neural network, two improved neural network models are set up at the com-mon nodes to simplify the network structure. The initial fault diagnosis is based on the iron spectrum data and the pressure, flow and temperature（PFT） characteristic parameters as the input vectors of the two improved neural network models, and the diagnosis result is taken as the basic probability distribution of the evidence theory. Then the objectivity of assignment is real-ized. The initial diagnosis results of two improved neural networks are fused by D-S evidence theory. The experimental results show that this method can avoid the misdiagnosis of neural network recognition and improve the accuracy of the fault diagnosis of HDRLSS.

Fault Diagnosis System for Aquaculture Networking Based on Neural Network

In view of existing problems at current aquaculture networking, such as nonlinear characteristic of fault and faults are easily affected by many factors, a fault diagnosis model based on neural network was proposed. In the building process of the model, the common fault types in the field of aquaculture networking were first analyzed and the types of fault mode were summarized. Afterwards, the evaluation indices of fault diagnosis were made, and eventually the fault diagnosis system of aquaculture networking was constructed using neural network principle. The fault diagnosis system could not only reduce the communication burden, but also have high diagnostic rate. Thus, it could be well applied in the fault dia^osis system for aquaculture networking.

APPLICATION OF ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY NEURAL NETWORK IN HIGH VOLTAGE TRANSMISSIONLINE FAULT DIAGNOSIS

Effective methods of enhancing the fault-tolerance property are proposed for two kinds of associative memory (AM) neural network (NN) used in high voltage transmission line fault diagnosis. For feedforward NN (FNN),the conception of 'fake attaction region' is presented to expand the attraction region artificially,and for the feedback Hopfield bidirectional AM NN (BAM-NN),the measure to add redundant neurons is taken to enhance NN's memory capacity and fault-tolerance property. Study results show that the NNs built not only can complete fault diagnosis correctly but also have fairly high fault-tolerance ability for disturbed input information sequence. Moreover FNN is a more convenient and effective method of solving the problem of power system fault diagnosis.

Application of neural network in heating network leakage fault diagnosis

In order to investigate the leak detection strategy of a heating network,a space-based simulation mathematical model for the heating network under leakage conditions is built by graph theory.The pressure changes of all the nodes in the heating network are obtained from node leak and pipe leak conditions.Then,a leakage diagnosis system based on the back propagation（BP）neural network is established.This diagnosis system can predict the leakage pipe by collecting the pressure change data of the monitoring points,which can preliminary estimate the leak location.The usefulness of this system is proved by an example.The experimental results show that the forecast accuracy by this diagnosis system can reach 100%.

Bearings Intelligent Fault Diagnosis by 1-D Adder Neural Networks

Integrated with sensors,processors,and radio frequency(RF)communication modules,intelligent bearing could achieve the autonomous perception and autonomous decision-making,guarantying the safety and reliability during their use.However,because of the resource limitations of the end device,processors in the intelligent bearing are unable to carry the computational load of deep learning models like convolutional neural network(CNN),which involves a great amount of multiplicative operations.To minimize the computation cost of the conventional CNN,based on the idea of AdderNet,a 1-D adder neural network with a wide first-layer kernel(WAddNN)suitable for bearing fault diagnosis is proposed in this paper.The proposed method uses the l1-norm distance between filters and input features as the output response,thus making the whole network almost free of multiplicative operations.The whole model takes the original signal as the input,uses a wide kernel in the first adder layer to extract features and suppress the high frequency noise,and then uses two layers of small kernels for nonlinear mapping.Through experimental comparison with CNN models of the same structure,WAddNN is able to achieve a similar accuracy as CNN models with significantly reduced computational cost.The proposed model provides a new fault diagnosis method for intelligent bearings with limited resources.

Feature evaluation and extraction based on neural network in analog circuit fault diagnosis

Choosing the right characteristic parameter is the key to fault diagnosis in analog circuit. The feature evaluation and extraction methods based on neural network are presented. Parameter evaluation of circuit features is realized by training results from neural network; the superior nonlinear mapping capability is competent for extracting fault features which are normalized and compressed subsequently. The complex classification problem on fault pattern recognition in analog circuit is transferred into feature processing stage by feature extraction based on neural network effectively, which improves the diagnosis efficiency. A fault diagnosis illustration validated this method.

Wavelet neural network based fault diagnosis in nonlinear analog circuits

The theories of diagnosing nonlinear analog circuits by means of the transient response testing are studled. Wavelet analysis is made to extract the transient response signature of nonlinear circuits and compress the signature dada. The best wavelet function is selected based on the between-category total scatter of signature. The fault dictionary of nonlinear circuits is constructed based on improved back-propagation（BP） neural network. Experimental results demonstrate that the method proposed has high diagnostic sensitivity and fast fault identification and deducibility.

Improved BP Neural Network for Transformer Fault Diagnosis

The back propagation (BP)-based artificial neural nets (ANN) can identify complicated relationships among dissolved gas contents in transformer oil and corresponding fault types, using the highly nonlinear mapping nature of the neural nets. An efficient BP-ALM (BP with Adaptive Learning Rate and Momentum coefficient) algorithm is proposed to reduce the training time and avoid being trapped into local minima, where the learning rate and the momentum coefficient are altered at iterations. We developed a system of transformer fault diagnosis based on Dissolved Gases Analysis (DGA) with a BP-ALM algorithm. Training patterns were selected from the results of a Refined Three-Ratio method (RTR). Test results show that the system has a better ability of quick learning and global convergence than other methods and a superior performance in fault diagnosis compared to convectional BP-based neural networks and RTR.

Actuator fault diagnosis of autonomous underwater vehicle based on improved Elman neural network

Autonomous underwater vehicles(AUV) work in a complex marine environment. Its system reliability and autonomous fault diagnosis are particularly important and can provide the basis for underwater vehicles to take corresponding security policy in a failure. Aiming at the characteristics of the underwater vehicle which has uncertain system and modeling difficulty, an improved Elman neural network is introduced which is applied to the underwater vehicle motion modeling. Through designing self-feedback connection with fixed gain in the unit connection as well as increasing the feedback of the output layer node, improved Elman network has faster convergence speed and generalization ability. This method for high-order nonlinear system has stronger identification ability. Firstly, the residual is calculated by comparing the output of the underwater vehicle model(estimation in the motion state) with the actual measured values. Secondly, characteristics of the residual are analyzed on the basis of fault judging criteria. Finally, actuator fault diagnosis of the autonomous underwater vehicle is carried out. The results of the simulation experiment show that the method is effective.

An Interpretable Denoising Layer for Neural Networks Based on Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space and its Application in Machine Fault Diagnosis

Deep learning algorithms based on neural networks make remarkable achievements in machine fault diagnosis,while the noise mixed in measured signals harms the prediction accuracy of networks.Existing denoising methods in neural networks,such as using complex network architectures and introducing sparse techniques,always suffer from the difficulty of estimating hyperparameters and the lack of physical interpretability.To address this issue,this paper proposes a novel interpretable denoising layer based on reproducing kernel Hilbert space(RKHS)as the first layer for standard neural networks,with the aim to combine the advantages of both traditional signal processing technology with physical interpretation and network modeling strategy with parameter adaption.By investigating the influencing mechanism of parameters on the regularization procedure in RKHS,the key parameter that dynamically controls the signal smoothness with low computational cost is selected as the only trainable parameter of the proposed layer.Besides,the forward and backward propagation algorithms of the designed layer are formulated to ensure that the selected parameter can be automatically updated together with other parameters in the neural network.Moreover,exponential and piecewise functions are introduced in the weight updating process to keep the trainable weight within a reasonable range and avoid the ill-conditioned problem.Experiment studies verify the effectiveness and compatibility of the proposed layer design method in intelligent fault diagnosis of machinery in noisy environments.

Reconstruction based approach to sensor fault diagnosis using auto-associative neural networks

Fault diagnostics is an important research area including different techniques.Principal component analysis(PCA)is a linear technique which has been widely used.For nonlinear processes,however,the nonlinear principal component analysis(NLPCA)should be applied.In this work,NLPCA based on auto-associative neural network(AANN)was applied to model a chemical process using historical data.First,the residuals generated by the AANN were used for fault detection and then a reconstruction based approach called enhanced AANN(E-AANN)was presented to isolate and reconstruct the faulty sensor simultaneously.The proposed method was implemented on a continuous stirred tank heater(CSTH)and used to detect and isolate two types of faults(drift and offset)for a sensor.The results show that the proposed method can detect,isolate and reconstruct the occurred fault properly.

FAULT DIAGNOSIS OF ROTATING MACHINERY USING KNOWLEDGE-BASED FUZZY NEURAL NETWORK

A novel knowledge-based fuzzy neural network （KBFNN） for fault diagnosis is presented. Crude rules were extracted and the corresponding dependent factors and antecedent coverage factors were calculated firstly from the diagnostic sample based on rough sets theory. Then the number of rules was used to construct partially the structure of a fuzzy neural network and those factors were implemented as initial weights, with fuzzy output parameters being optimized by genetic algorithm. Such fuzzy neural network was called KBFNN. This KBFNN was utilized to identify typical faults of rotating machinery. Diagnostic results show that it has those merits of shorter training time and higher right diagnostic level compared to general fuzzy neural networks.

Connected Components-based Colour Image Representations of Vibrations for a Two-stage Fault Diagnosis of Roller Bearings Using Convolutional Neural Networks

Roller bearing failure is one of the most common faults in rotating machines.Various techniques for bearing fault diagnosis based on faults feature extraction have been proposed.But feature extraction from fault signals requires expert prior information and human labour.Recently,deep learning algorithms have been applied extensively in the condition monitoring of rotating machines to learn features automatically from the input data.Given its robust performance in image recognition,the convolutional neural network(CNN)architecture has been widely used to learn automatically discriminative features from vibration images and classify health conditions.This paper proposes and evaluates a two-stage method RGBVI-CNN for roller bearings fault diagnosis.The first stage in the proposed method is to generate the RGB vibration images(RGBVIs)from the input vibration signals.To begin this process,first,the 1-D vibration signals were converted to 2-D grayscale vibration Images.Once the conversion was completed,the regions of interest(ROI)were found in the converted 2-D grayscale vibration images.Finally,to produce vibration images with more discriminative characteristics,an algorithm was applied to the 2-D grayscale vibration images to produce connected components-based RGB vibration images(RGBVIs)with sets of colours and texture features.In the second stage,with these RGBVIs a CNN-based architecture was employed to learn automatically features from the RGBVIs and to classify bearing health conditions.Two cases of fault classification of rolling element bearings are used to validate the proposed method.Experimental results of this investigation demonstrate that RGBVI-CNN can generate advantageous health condition features from bearing vibration signals and classify the health conditions under different working loads with high accuracy.Moreover,several classification models trained using RGBVI-CNN offered high performance in the testing results of the overall classification accuracy,precision,recall,and F-score.

Multifault diagnosis in WSN using a hybrid metaheuristic trained neural network

Wireless sensor networks are susceptible to failures of nodes and links due to various physical or computational reasons.Some physical reasons include a very high temperature,a heavy load over a node,and heavy rain.Computational reasons could be a third-party intrusive attack,communication conflicts,or congestion.Automated fault diagnosis has been a well-studied problem in the research community.In this paper,we present an automated fault diagnosis model that can diagnose multiple types of faults in the category of hard faults and soft faults.Our proposed model implements a feed-forward neural network trained with a hybrid metaheuristic algorithm that combines the principles of exploration and exploitation of the search space.The proposed methodology consists of different phases,such as a clustering phase,a fault detection and classification phase,and a decision and diagnosis phase.The implemented methodology can diagnose composite faults,such as hard permanent,soft permanent,intermittent,and transient faults for sensor nodes as well as for links.The proposed implementation can also classify different types of faulty behavior for both sensor nodes and links in the network.We present the obtained theoretical results and computational complexity of the implemented model for this particular study on automated fault diagnosis.The performance of the model is evaluated using simulations and experiments conducted using indoor and outdoor testbeds.

Research on Gear-box Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Adjusting-learning-rate PSO Neural Network

Based on the research of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) learning rate, two learning rates are changed linearly with velocity-formula evolving in order to adjust the proportion of social part and cognitional part; then the methods are applied to BP neural network training, the convergence rate is heavily accelerated and locally optional solution is avoided. According to actual data of two levels compound-box in vibration lab, signals are analyzed and their characteristic values are abstracted. By applying the trained BP neural networks to compound-box fault diagnosis, it is indicated that the methods are sound effective.