Research on fault diagnosis of a railway point machine based on a multi-entropy feature extraction method and support vector machine

A new fault diagnosis method is proposed to effectively extract the fault features of the sound signal of typical faults of ZDJ9 railway point machines.A multi-entropy feature extraction method is proposed by combing multi-scale permutation entropy and wavelet packet entropy.Firstly,empirical mode decomposition is performed on sound signals to obtain modal components with different time scales.Then,multi-scale permutation entropy is extracted from these components.Meanwhile,the wavelet packet entropy of the sound signals of these sensitive nodes is obtained by analysing the reconstructed signals of the last layer nodes.Since the multi-scale permutation entropy and the wavelet packet entropy can distinguish the subtle features of the signal,the subtle features of the information among the high-dimensional features,ReliefF is utilized.Finally,a support vector machine(SVM)is used to judge the original sismal can be obtained as the feature vector of the 2DJ9 iway point mnchine in ditterent states,To reduce the redundant fault type of a ZDJ9 rilway point machine.

Fault diagnosis of railway point machines based on wavelet transform and artificial immune algorithm

Aiming at the current problems of high failure rate and low diagnostic efficiency of railway point machines(RPMs)in the railway industry,a short-time method of fault diagnosis is proposed.Considering the effect of noise on power signals in the data acquisition process of the railway centralized signaling monitoring(CSM)system,this study utilizes wavelet threshold denoising to eliminate interference.The results show that the accuracy of fault diagnosis can be improved by 4.4% after denoising the power signals.Then in order to attain a lighter weight and shorten the running time of the diagnosis model,Mallat wavelet decomposition and artificial immune algorithm are applied to RPM fault diagnosis.Finally,voluminous experiments using veritable power signals collected from CSM are introduced,which show that combining these methods can procure higher precision of RPMs and curtail fault diagnosis time.This substantiates the validity and feasibility of the presented approach.

Condition monitoring and fault diagnosis strategy of railway point machines using vibration signals

Condition monitoring of railway point machines is important for train operation safety and effectiveness.Referring to the fields of mechanical equipment fault detection,this paper proposes a fault detection and identification strategy of railway point machines via vibration signals.A comprehensive feature distilling approach by combining variational mode decomposition(VMD)energy entropy and time-and frequency-domain statistical features is presented,which is more effective than single type of feature.The optimal set of features was selected with ReliefF,which helps improve the diagnosis accuracy.Support vector machine(SVM),which is suitable for a small sample,is adopted to realize diagnosis.The diagnosis accuracy of the proposed method reaches 100%,and its effectiveness is verified by experiment comparisons.In this paper,vibration signals are creatively adopted for fault diagnosis of railway point machines.The presented method can help guide field maintenance staff and also provide reference for fault diagnosis of other equipment.

Modified multi-scale symbolic dynamic entropy and fuzzy broad learning-based fast fault diagnosis of railway point machines

Railway point machine(RPM)condition monitoring has attracted engineers’attention for safe train operation and accident prevention.To realize the fast and accurate fault diagnosis of RPMs,this paper proposes a method based on entropy measurement and broad learning system(BLS).Firstly,the modified multi-scale symbolic dynamic entropy(MMSDE)module extracts dynamic characteristics from the collected acoustic signals as entropy features.Then,the fuzzy BLS takes the above entropy features as input to complete model training.Fuzzy BLS introduces the Takagi-Sug eno fuzzy system into BLS,which improves the model’s classification performance while considering computational speed.Experimental results indicate that the proposed method significantly reduces the running time while maintaining high accuracy.

Data-driven technology of fault diagnosis in railway point machines:review and challenges

Safety and reliability are absolutely vital for sophisticated Railway Point Machines(RPMs).Hence,various kinds of sensors and transducers are deployed on RPMs as much as possible to monitor their behaviour for detection of incipient faults and anticipation using data-driven technology.This paper firstly analyses and summarizes six RPMs’characteristics and then reviews the data-driven algorithms applied to fault diagnosis in RPMs during the past decade.It provides not only the process and evaluation metrics but also the pros and cons of these different methods.Ultimately,regarding the characteristics of RPMs and the existing studies,eight challenging problems and promising research directions are pointed out.