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.

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%.

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.

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.

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.

Application of MBAM Neural Network in CNC Machine Fault Diagnosis

In order to improve the bidirectional associative memory(BAM) performance, a modified BAM model(MBAM) is used to enhance neural network(NN)’s memory capacity and error correction capability, theoretical analysis and experiment results illuminate that MBAM performs much better than the original BAM. The MBAM is used in computer numeric control(CNC) machine fault diagnosis, it not only can complete fault diagnosis correctly but also have fairly high error correction capability for disturbed Input Information sequence.Moreover MBAM model is a more convenient and effective method of solving the problem of CNC electric system fault diagnosis.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Adaptive multiscale convolutional neural network model for chemical process fault diagnosis

Intelligent fault recognition techniques are essential to ensure the long-term reliability of manufacturing.Due to the variations in material,equipment and environment,the process variables monitored by sensors contain diverse data characteristics at different time scales or in multiple operating modes.Despite much progress in statistical learning and deep learning for fault recognition,most models are constrained by abundant diagnostic expertise,inefficient multiscale feature extraction and unruly multimode condition.To overcome the above issues,a novel fault diagnosis model called adaptive multiscale convolutional neural network(AMCNN)is developed in this paper.A new multiscale convolutional learning structure is designed to automatically mine multiple-scale features from time-series data,embedding the adaptive attention module to adjust the selection of relevant fault pattern information.The triplet loss optimization is adopted to increase the discrimination capability of the model under the multimode condition.The benchmarks CSTR simulation and Tennessee Eastman process are utilized to verify and illustrate the feasibility and efficiency of the proposed method.Compared with other common models,AMCNN shows its outstanding fault diagnosis performance and great generalization ability.

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.

Combinatorial Optimization Based Analog Circuit Fault Diagnosis with Back Propagation Neural Network

Electronic components' reliability has become the key of the complex system mission execution. Analog circuit is an important part of electronic components. Its fault diagnosis is far more challenging than that of digital circuit. Simulations and applications have shown that the methods based on BP neural network are effective in analog circuit fault diagnosis. Aiming at the tolerance of analog circuit,a combinatorial optimization diagnosis scheme was proposed with back propagation( BP) neural network( BPNN).The main contributions of this scheme included two parts:( 1) the random tolerance samples were added into the nominal training samples to establish new training samples,which were used to train the BP neural network based diagnosis model;( 2) the initial weights of the BP neural network were optimized by genetic algorithm( GA) to avoid local minima,and the BP neural network was tuned with Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm( LMA) in the local solution space to look for the optimum solution or approximate optimal solutions. The experimental results show preliminarily that the scheme substantially improves the whole learning process approximation and generalization ability,and effectively promotes analog circuit fault diagnosis performance based on BPNN.

Wavelet Transform and Neural Networks in Fault Diagnosis of a Motor Rotor

In the motor fault diagnosis technique, vibration and stator current frequency components of detection are two main means. This article will discuss the signal detection method based on vibration fault. Because the motor vibration signal is a non-stationary random signal, fault signals often contain a lot of time-varying, burst proper- ties of ingredients. The traditional Fourier signal analysis can not effectively extract the motor fault characteristics, but are also likely to be rich in failure information but a weak signal as noise. Therefore, we introduce wavelet packet transforms to extract the fault characteristics of the signal information. Obtained was the result as the neural network input signal, using the L-M neural network optimization method for training, and then used the BP net- work for fault recognition. This paper uses Matlab software to simulate and confirmed the method of motor fault di- agnosis validity and accuracy

Rough set and radial basis function neural network based insulation data mining fault diagnosis for power transformer

Rough set (RS) and radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) based insulation data mining fault diagnosis for power transformer is proposed. On the one hand rough set is used as front of RBFNN to simplify the input of RBFNN and mine the rules. The mined rules whose “confidence” and “support” is higher than requirement are used to offer fault diagnosis service for power transformer directly. On the other hand the mining samples corresponding to the mined rule, whose “confidence and support” is lower than requirement, are used to be training samples set of RBFNN and these samples are clustered by rough set. The center of each clustering set is used to be center of radial basis function, i.e., as the hidden layer neuron. The RBFNN is structured with above base, which is used to diagnose the case that can not be diagnosed by mined simplified valuable rules based on rough set. The advantages and effectiveness of this method are verified by testing.

A Study on Integrated Wavelet Neural Networks in Fault Diagnosis Based on Information Fusion

The tight wavelet neural network was constituted by taking the nonlinear Morlet wavelet radices as the excitation function. The idiographic algorithm was presented. It combined the advantages of wavelet analysis and neural networks. The integrated wavelet neural network fault diagnosis system was set up based on both the information fusion technology and actual fault diagnosis, which took the sub-wavelet neural network as primary diagnosis from different sides, then came to the conclusions through decision-making fusion. The realizable policy of the diagnosis system and established principle of the sub-wavelet neural networks were given. It can be deduced from the examples that it takes full advantage of diversified characteristic information, and improves the diagnosis rate.