Fault Diagnosis for Aircraft Hydraulic Systems via One-Dimensional Multichannel Convolution Neural Network

• Published in: Actuators Vol. 11; no. 7; p. 182
• Main Authors: Shen, Kenan, Zhao, Dongbiao
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.07.2022
• Subjects: Aircraft; aircraft hydraulic system; Aircraft hydraulic systems; Algorithms; Artificial neural networks; Classification; Computer simulation; convolution neural network; Fault detection; Fault diagnosis; Hydraulic equipment; Hydraulics; Landing gear; Machine learning; Neural networks; one-dimensional multichannel convolution neural network algorithm; Reliability analysis; Sensors; Simulation; System reliability; Wavelet transforms
• ISSN: 2076-0825; 2076-0825
• DOI: 10.3390/act11070182

Detecting the faults in hydraulic systems in advance is difficult owing to the complexity associated with such systems. Hence, it is necessary to investigate the different fault modes and analyze the system reliability in order to establish a method for improving the reliability and security of hydraulic systems. To this end, this paper proposes a novel one-dimensional multichannel convolution neural network (1DMCCNN) for diagnosing fault modes. In this work, a landing gear hydraulic system was constructed with a normal model and a fault model; five types of faults were considered. Pressure signals were extracted from this hydraulic system, and the extracted signals were subsequently input into the convolution neural network (CNN) as multichannel data. Thereafter, the data were subjected to a one-dimensional convolution filter. The differences between channels were used to enhance features. The features obtained in this manner were compared for fault diagnoses. Furthermore, this proposed method was verified via simulations; the simulation results indicated that the precision of the 1DMCCNN was considerably higher than that of conventional machine learning algorithms.