Vibration Monitoring of Gas Turbine Engines: Machine-Learning Approaches and Their Challenges
| Autor: | Matthaiou, Ioannis, Khandelwal, Bhupendra, Antoniadou, Ifigeneia |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Built Environment, Vol 3 (2017) Frontiers in Built Environment |
| ISSN: | 2297-3362 |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fbuil.2017.00054/full |
| Popis: | In this study, condition monitoring strategies are examined for gas turbine engines\ud using vibration data. The focus is on data-driven approaches, for this reason a novelty\ud detection framework is considered for the development of reliable data-driven models\ud that can describe the underlying relationships of the processes taking place during an\ud engine’s operation. From a data analysis perspective, the high dimensionality of features\ud extracted and the data complexity are two problems that need to be dealt with throughout\ud analyses of this type. The latter refers to the fact that the healthy engine state data\ud can be non-stationary. To address this, the implementation of the wavelet transform is\ud examined to get a set of features from vibration signals that describe the non-stationary\ud parts. The problem of high dimensionality of the features is addressed by “compressing”\ud them using the kernel principal component analysis so that more meaningful, lowerdimensional\ud features can be used to train the pattern recognition algorithms. For feature\ud discrimination, a novelty detection scheme that is based on the one-class support\ud vector machine (OCSVM) algorithm is chosen for investigation. The main advantage,\ud when compared to other pattern recognition algorithms, is that the learning problem is\ud being cast as a quadratic program. The developed condition monitoring strategy can\ud be applied for detecting excessive vibration levels that can lead to engine component\ud failure. Here, we demonstrate its performance on vibration data from an experimental\ud gas turbine engine operating on different conditions. Engine vibration data that are\ud designated as belonging to the engine’s “normal” condition correspond to fuels and airto-fuel\ud ratio combinations, in which the engine experienced low levels of vibration. Results\ud demonstrate that such novelty detection schemes can achieve a satisfactory validation\ud accuracy through appropriate selection of two parameters of the OCSVM, the kernel\ud width γ and optimization penalty parameter ν. This selection was made by searching\ud along a fixed grid space of values and choosing the combination that provided the highest\ud cross-validation accuracy. Nevertheless, there exist challenges that are discussed along\ud with suggestions for future work that can be used to enhance similar novelty detection\ud schemes.\ud |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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