Denoising graph neural network based hydraulic component fault diagnosis method

Abstract

Accurately identifying faults in hydraulic components is essential for improving the reliability and safety of hydraulic systems. Since the hydraulic components of heavy-duty equipment usually work in complex and variable environments and are subject to interference from multiple sources of noise. As a result, fault diagnosis of hydraulic components is challenging, leading to the development of various fault diagnosis models. However, current hydraulic component fault diagnosis models have the following limitations: (1) only able to handle Euclidean space data and ignore the topological relationships within the signals that could provide additional useful information for fault diagnosis, (2) only diagnose faults using single-dimensional acceleration data and fail to incorporate more equipment working conditions. This study focuses on the hydraulic directional valve and proposes a fault diagnosis method based on denoising graph neural network. Firstly, computational fluid dynamics(CFD) is used to analyze the flow field of the spool and sleeve of the valve under different wear states and working conditions. It is found that different degrees of wear have similarities under different working conditions, and there is a regular correlation between the acceleration signal of the valve body and the fault mode under the same working condition. Therefore, acceleration and working condition information are selected as the raw information for fault diagnosis. Then, horizontal visibility graph(HVG) was utilized to transform acceleration signal to graph, and the graph nodes, which can incorporate multidimensional information, were set to be the equipment working conditions and acceleration values. However, the noise in the raw signal could seriously affect the quality of the HVG. To solve this problem, an adaptive threshold denoising algorithm was proposed to reduce the interference noise in the acceleration signal. The denoising threshold parameter was learned directly from the raw data. Finally, graph neural network(GNN) is applied to fault diagnosis of hydraulic components from non-Euclidean multidimensional information. Experimental results demonstrate the superior robustness and accuracy of this method in handling strong noise and multiple working conditions compared to several classical fault diagnosis methods. This research provides an effective approach for hydraulic component fault diagnosis.