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Article
Publication date: 5 June 2007

Hongyu Yang, Joseph Mathew and Lin Ma

The purpose of this article is to present a new application of pursuit‐based analysis for diagnosing rolling element bearing faults.

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this article is to present a new application of pursuit‐based analysis for diagnosing rolling element bearing faults.

Design/methodology/approach

Intelligent diagnosis of rolling element bearing faults in rotating machinery involves the procedure of feature extraction using modern signal processing techniques and artificial intelligence technique‐based fault detection and identification. This paper presents a comparative study of both the basis and matching pursuits when applied to fault diagnosis of rolling element bearings using vibration analysis.

Findings

Fault features were extracted from vibration acceleration signals and subsequently fed to a feed forward neural network (FFNN) for classification. The classification rate and mean square error (MSE) were calculated to evaluate the performance of the intelligent diagnostic procedure. Results from the basis pursuit fault diagnosis procedure were compared with the classification result of a matching pursuit feature‐based diagnostic procedure. The comparison clearly illustrates that basis pursuit feature‐based fault diagnosis is significantly more accurate than matching pursuit feature‐based fault diagnosis in detecting these faults.

Practical implications

Intelligent diagnosis can reduce the reliance on experienced personnel to make expert judgements on the state of the integrity of machines. The proposed method has the potential to be extensively applied in various industrial scenarios, although this application concerned rolling element bearings only. The principles of the application are directly translatable to other parts of complex machinery.

Originality/value

This work presents a novel intelligent diagnosis strategy using pursuit features and feed forward neural networks. The value of the work is to ease the burden of making decisions on the integrity of plant through a manual program in condition monitoring and diagnostics particularly of complex pieces of plant.

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Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, vol. 13 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1355-2511

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Article
Publication date: 4 March 2021

Defeng Lv, Huawei Wang and Changchang Che

The purpose of this study is to achieve an accurate intelligent fault diagnosis of rolling bearing.

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to achieve an accurate intelligent fault diagnosis of rolling bearing.

Design/methodology/approach

To extract deep features of the original vibration signal and improve the generalization ability and robustness of the fault diagnosis model, this paper proposes a fault diagnosis method of rolling bearing based on multiscale convolutional neural network (MCNN) and decision fusion. The original vibration signals are normalized and matrixed to form grayscale image samples. In addition, multiscale samples can be achieved by convoluting these samples with different convolution kernels. Subsequently, MCNN is constructed for fault diagnosis. The results of MCNN are put into a data fusion model to obtain comprehensive fault diagnosis results.

Findings

The bearing data sets with multiple multivariate time series are used to testify the effectiveness of the proposed method. The proposed model can achieve 99.8% accuracy of fault diagnosis. Based on MCNN and decision fusion, the accuracy can be improved by 0.7%–3.4% compared with other models.

Originality/value

The proposed model can extract deep general features of vibration signals by MCNN and obtained robust fault diagnosis results based on the decision fusion model. For a long time series of vibration signals with noise, the proposed model can still achieve accurate fault diagnosis.

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Industrial Lubrication and Tribology, vol. 73 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0036-8792

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Article
Publication date: 5 May 2022

Defeng Lv, Huawei Wang and Changchang Che

The purpose of this study is to analyze the intelligent semisupervised fault diagnosis method of aeroengine.

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to analyze the intelligent semisupervised fault diagnosis method of aeroengine.

Design/methodology/approach

A semisupervised fault diagnosis method based on denoising autoencoder (DAE) and deep belief network (DBN) is proposed for aeroengine. Multiple state parameters of aeroengine with long time series are processed to form high-dimensional fault samples and corresponding fault types are taken as sample labels. DAE is applied for unsupervised learning of fault samples, so as to achieve denoised dimension-reduction features. Subsequently, the extracted features and sample labels are put into DBN for supervised learning. Thus, the semisupervised fault diagnosis of aeroengine can be achieved by the combination of unsupervised learning and supervised learning.

Findings

The JT9D aeroengine data set and simulated aeroengine data set are applied to test the effectiveness of the proposed method. The result shows that the semisupervised fault diagnosis method of aeroengine based on DAE and DBN has great robustness and can maintain high accuracy of fault diagnosis under noise interference. Compared with other traditional models and separate deep learning model, the proposed method also has lower error and higher accuracy of fault diagnosis.

Originality/value

Multiple state parameters with long time series are processed to form high-dimensional fault samples. As a typical unsupervised learning, DAE is used to denoise the fault samples and extract dimension-reduction features for future deep learning. Based on supervised learning, DBN is applied to process the extracted features and fault diagnosis of aeroengine with multiple state parameters can be achieved through the pretraining and reverse fine-tuning of restricted Boltzmann machines.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 94 no. 10
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1748-8842

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Article
Publication date: 18 March 2019

Mohamed Ali Zdiri, Badii Bouzidi and Hsan Hadj Abdallah

This paper aims to analyze and investigate the performance of an improved fault detection and identification (FDI) method based on multiple criteria, applied to six-switch…

Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to analyze and investigate the performance of an improved fault detection and identification (FDI) method based on multiple criteria, applied to six-switch three-phase inverter (SSTPI)-fed induction motor (IM) drives under both single and multiple open insulated-gate bipolar transistors(IGBT) faults.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper proposes an advanced diagnostic method for both single and multiple open IGBT faults dedicated to SSTPI-fed IM drives considering five distinct faulty operating conditions as follows: a single IGBT open-circuit fault, a single-phase open-circuit fault, a non-crossed double fault in two different legs, a crossed double fault in two different legs and a three-IGBT open-circuit fault. This is achieved because of the introduction of a new diagnosis variable provided using the information of the slope of the current vector in (α-β) frame. The proposed FDI method is based on the synthesis and the analysis, under both healthy and faulty operations, of the behaviors of the introduced diagnosis variable, the three motor phase currents and their normalized average values. Doing so, the developed FDI method allows a best compromise of fast detection and precision localization of IGBT open-circuit fault of the inverter.

Findings

Simulation works, carried out considering the implementation of the direct rotor flux oriented control in an IM fed by the conventional SSTPI, have proved the high performance of the advanced FDI method in terms of fast fault detection associated with a high robustness against false alarms, against speed and load torque fast variations and against the oscillations of the DC-bus voltage in the case of both healthy and faulty operations.

Research limitations/implications

This work should be extended considering the validation of the obtained simulation results through experiments.

Originality/value

Different from other FDI methods, which suffer from a low diagnostic effectiveness for low load levels and false alarms during transient operation, this method offers the potentialities to overcome these drawbacks because of the introduction of the new diagnosis variable. This latter, combined with the information provided from the three motor phase currents and their normalized average values allow a more efficient detection and identification of IGBT open-circuit fault.

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COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, vol. 38 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0332-1649

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Article
Publication date: 7 July 2020

Jie Chen, Zhengdong Jing, Chentao Wu, Senyao Chen and Liye Cheng

This paper aims to improve the fault detection adaptive threshold of aircraft flap control system to make the system fault diagnosis more accurate.

Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to improve the fault detection adaptive threshold of aircraft flap control system to make the system fault diagnosis more accurate.

Design/methodology/approach

According to the complex mechanical–electrical–hydraulic structure and the multiple fault modes of the aircraft flap control system, the advanced fault diagnosis method based on the bond graph (BG) model is presented, and based on the system diagnostic BG model, the parameter uncertainty intervals are estimated and a new adaptive threshold is constructed by linear fraction transformation.

Findings

To construct a more reasonable and accurate adaptive threshold range to more accurately detect system failures, some typical failure modes’ diagnosis process are selected and completed for verification; the simulation results show that the proposed method is effective and feasible for complex systems’ fault diagnosis.

Practical implications

This study can provide a theoretical guidance and technical support for fault diagnosis of complex systems, which avoid misdiagnosis and missed diagnosis.

Originality/value

This study enables more accurate fault detection and diagnosis of complex systems when considering factors such as parameter uncertainty.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 92 no. 8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1748-8842

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Article
Publication date: 27 February 2009

Mourad Elhadef

The purpose of this paper is to describe a novel diagnosis approach, using neural networks (NNs), which can be used to identify faulty nodes in distributed and multiprocessor…

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to describe a novel diagnosis approach, using neural networks (NNs), which can be used to identify faulty nodes in distributed and multiprocessor systems.

Design/methodology/approach

Based on a literature‐based study focusing on research methodology and theoretical frameworks, the conduct of an ethnographic case study is described in detail. A discussion of the reporting and analysis of the data is also included.

Findings

This work shows that NNs can be used to implement a more efficient and adaptable approach for diagnosing faulty nodes in distributed systems. Simulations results indicate that the perceptron‐based diagnosis is a viable addition to present diagnosis problems.

Research limitations/implications

This paper presents a solution for the asymmetric comparison model. For a more generalized approach that can be used for other comparison or invalidation models this approach requires a multilayer neural network.

Practical implications

The extensive simulations conducted clearly showed that the perceptron‐based diagnosis algorithm correctly identified all the millions of faulty situations tested. In addition, the perceptron‐based diagnosis requires an off‐line learning phase which does not have an impact on the diagnosis latency. This means that a fault set can be easily and rapidly identified. Simulations results showed that only few milliseconds are required to diagnose a system, hence, one can start talking about “real‐time” diagnosis.

Originality/value

The paper is first work that uses NNs to solve the system‐level diagnosis problem.

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Education, Business and Society: Contemporary Middle Eastern Issues, vol. 2 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1753-7983

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Article
Publication date: 4 April 2023

Yao Chen, Ruijun Liang, Wenfeng Ran and Weifang Chen

In gearbox fault diagnosis, identifying the fault type and severity simultaneously, as well as the compound fault containing multiple faults, is necessary.

Abstract

Purpose

In gearbox fault diagnosis, identifying the fault type and severity simultaneously, as well as the compound fault containing multiple faults, is necessary.

Design/methodology/approach

To diagnose multiple faults simultaneously, this paper proposes a multichannel and multi-task convolutional neural network (MCMT-CNN) model.

Findings

Experiments were conducted on a bearing dataset containing different fault types and severities and a gearbox compound fault dataset. The experimental results show that MCMT-CNN can effectively extract features of different tasks from vibration signals, with a diagnosis accuracy of more than 97%.

Originality/value

Vibration signals at different positions and in different directions are taken as the MC inputs to ensure the integrity of the fault features. Fault labels are established to retain and distinguish the unique features of different tasks. In MCMT-CNN, multiple task branches can connect and share all neurons in the hidden layer, thus enabling multiple tasks to share information.

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International Journal of Structural Integrity, vol. 14 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1757-9864

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Article
Publication date: 25 July 2019

Yinhua Liu, Rui Sun and Sun Jin

Driven by the development in sensing techniques and information and communications technology, and their applications in the manufacturing system, data-driven quality control…

Abstract

Purpose

Driven by the development in sensing techniques and information and communications technology, and their applications in the manufacturing system, data-driven quality control methods play an essential role in the quality improvement of assembly products. This paper aims to review the development of data-driven modeling methods for process monitoring and fault diagnosis in multi-station assembly systems. Furthermore, the authors discuss the applications of the methods proposed and present suggestions for future studies in data mining for quality control in product assembly.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper provides an outline of data-driven process monitoring and fault diagnosis methods for reduction in variation. The development of statistical process monitoring techniques and diagnosis methods, such as pattern matching, estimation-based analysis and artificial intelligence-based diagnostics, is introduced.

Findings

A classification structure for data-driven process control techniques and the limitations of their applications in multi-station assembly processes are discussed. From the perspective of the engineering requirements of real, dynamic, nonlinear and uncertain assembly systems, future trends in sensing system location, data mining and data fusion techniques for variation reduction are suggested.

Originality/value

This paper reveals the development of process monitoring and fault diagnosis techniques, and their applications in variation reduction in multi-station assembly.

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Assembly Automation, vol. 39 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0144-5154

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Article
Publication date: 21 December 2021

Shanling Han, Shoudong Zhang, Yong Li and Long Chen

Intelligent diagnosis of equipment faults can effectively avoid the shutdown caused by equipment faults and improve the safety of the equipment. At present, the diagnosis of…

Abstract

Purpose

Intelligent diagnosis of equipment faults can effectively avoid the shutdown caused by equipment faults and improve the safety of the equipment. At present, the diagnosis of various kinds of bearing fault information, such as the occurrence, location and degree of fault, can be carried out by machine learning and deep learning and realized through the multiclassification method. However, the multiclassification method is not perfect in distinguishing similar fault categories and visual representation of fault information. To improve the above shortcomings, an end-to-end fault multilabel classification model is proposed for bearing fault diagnosis.

Design/methodology/approach

In this model, the labels of each bearing are binarized by using the binary relevance method. Then, the integrated convolutional neural network and gated recurrent unit (CNN-GRU) is employed to classify faults. Different from the general CNN networks, the CNN-GRU network adds multiple GRU layers after the convolutional layers and the pool layers.

Findings

The Paderborn University bearing dataset is utilized to demonstrate the practicability of the model. The experimental results show that the average accuracy in test set is 99.7%, and the proposed network is better than multilayer perceptron and CNN in fault diagnosis of bearing, and the multilabel classification method is superior to the multiclassification method. Consequently, the model can intuitively classify faults with higher accuracy.

Originality/value

The fault labels of each bearing are labeled according to the failure or not, the fault location, the damage mode and the damage degree, and then the binary value is obtained. The multilabel problem is transformed into a binary classification problem of each fault label by the binary relevance method, and the predicted probability value of each fault label is directly output in the output layer, which visually distinguishes different fault conditions.

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International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics, vol. 15 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1756-378X

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Article
Publication date: 13 December 2019

Aisong Qin, Qin Hu, Qinghua Zhang, Yunrong Lv and Guoxi Sun

Rotating machineries are widely used in manufacturing, petroleum, chemical, aircraft, and other industries. To accurately identify the operating conditions of such rotating…

Abstract

Purpose

Rotating machineries are widely used in manufacturing, petroleum, chemical, aircraft, and other industries. To accurately identify the operating conditions of such rotating machineries, this paper aims to propose a fault diagnosis method based on sensitive dimensionless parameters and particle swarm optimization (PSO)–support vector machine (SVM) for reducing the unexpected downtime and economic losses.

Design/methodology/approach

A relatively new hybrid intelligent fault classification approach is proposed by integrating multiple dimensionless parameters, the Fisher criterion and PSO–SVM. In terms of data pre-processing, a method based on wavelet packet decomposition (WPD), empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and dimensionless parameters is proposed for the extraction of the vibration signal features. The Fisher criterion is applied to reduce the redundant dimensionless parameters and search for the sensitive dimensionless parameters. Then, PSO is adapted to optimize the penalty parameter and kernel parameter for SVM. Finally, the sensitive dimensionless parameters are classified with the optimized model.

Findings

As two different time–frequency analysis methods, a method based on a combination of WPD and EMD used to extract multiple dimensionless parameters is presented. More vital diagnosis information can be obtained from the vibration signals than by only using a single time–frequency analysis method. Besides, a fault classification approach combining the sensitive dimensionless parameters and PSO-SVM classifier is proposed. The comparative experiment results show that the proposed method has a high classification accuracy and efficiency.

Originality/value

To the best of the authors’ knowledge, very few efforts have been performed for fault classification using multiple dimensionless parameters. In this paper, eighty dimensionless parameters have been studied intensively, which provides a new strategy in fault diagnosis field.

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