A fault diagnosis approach for diesel engine valve train based on improved ITD and SDAG-RVM

Targeting the non-stationary characteristics of the vibration signals of a diesel engine valve train, and the limitation of the autoregressive (AR) model, a novel approach based on the improved intrinsic time-scale decomposition (ITD) and relevance vector machine (RVM) is proposed in this paper for the identification of diesel engine valve train faults. The approach mainly consists of three stages: First, prior to the feature extraction, non-uniform B-spline interpolation is introduced to the ITD method for the fitting of baseline signal, then the improved ITD is used to decompose the non-stationary signals into a set of stationary proper rotation components (PRCs). Second, the AR model is established for each PRC, and the first several AR coefficients together with the remnant variance of all PRCs are regarded as the fault feature vectors. Finally, a new separability based directed acyclic graph (SDAG) method is proposed to determine the structure of multi-class RVM, and the fault feature vectors are classified using the SDAG-RVM classifier to recognize the fault of the diesel engine valve train. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed fault diagnosis approach can effectively extract the fault features and accurately identify the fault patterns.

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