A Fault Diagnosis Method for Electric Check Valve Based on ResNet-ELM with Adaptive Focal Loss

Abstract

Under the trend of carbon neutrality, the adoption of electric mineral transportation equipment is steadily increasing. Accurate monitoring of the operational status of electric check valves in diaphragm pumps is crucial for ensuring transportation safety. However, accurately identifying the operational characteristics of electric check valves under complex excitation and noisy environments remains challenging. This paper proposes a monitoring method for the status of electric check valves based on the integration of Adaptive Focal Loss (AFL) with residual networks and Extreme Learning Machines (AFL-ResNet-ELMs). Firstly, to address the issue of unclear feature representation in one-dimensional vibration signals, grayscale operations are employed to transform the one-dimensional data into grayscale images with more distinct features. Residual networks are then utilized to extract the state features of the check valve, with Extreme Learning Machines serving as the feature classifier. Secondly, to overcome the issue of imbalanced industrial data distribution, a new Adaptive Focal Loss function is designed. This function focuses the training process on difficult-to-classify data samples, balancing the recognition difficulty across different samples. Finally, experimental studies are conducted using industrially measured vibration data of the electric check valve. The results indicate that the proposed method achieves an average accuracy of 99.60% in identifying four health states of the check valve. This method provides a novel approach for the safety monitoring of slurry pipeline transportation processes.