Detection and Isolation of Leakage and Valve Faults in Hydraulic Systems in Varying Loading Conditions, Part 2: Fault Detection and Isolation Scheme

Abstract Leakages and valve faults are among the most common faults in hydraulic systems. This paper studies the real-time detection and isolation of certain leakage and valve faults based on the results obtained in part one. In the first part, the mathematical model of a hydraulic test bed was analysed with Global Sensitivity Analysis to facilitate a systematic and verified approach to model-based condition monitoring. In this paper, an Unscented Kalman Filter-based Fault Detection and Isolation scheme for leakage and valve faults of a generic servo valve-controlled hydraulic cylinder is devised. Compared to existing literature, the leakage and valve faults are decoupled from cylinder static and dynamic loading which makes the results generic and applicable to any servo valve-controlled hydraulic cylinder. Moreover, a more comprehensive set of fault patterns for the detection and isolation of leakages and valve faults with experimental and simulation results are presented. We show that detecting an external leakage of as small as 0.17 1/min is possible in some cases, but the accuracy of the method varies considerably. We also report why the isolation of valve faults from leakages is very difficult.

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