A Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Combination of Neural Network and Fault Dictionary

Abstract

Neural network and Fault dictionary are two kinds of very useful fault diagnosis method. But for large scale and complex circuits, the fault dictionary is huge, and the speed of fault searching affects the efficiency of real-time diagnosing. When the fault samples are few, it is difficulty to train the neural network, and the trained neural network can not diagnose the entire faults. In this paper, a new fault diagnosis method based on combination of neural network and fault dictionary is introduced. The fault dictionary with large scale is divided into several son fault dictionary with smaller scale, and the search index of the son dictionary is organized with the neural networks trained with the son fault dictionary. The complexity of training neural network is reduced, and this method using the neural networks ability that could accurately describe the relation between input data and corresponding goal organizes the index in a multilayer binary tree with many neural networks. Through this index, the seeking scope is reduced greatly, the searching speed is raised, and the efficiency of real-time diagnosing is improved. At last, the validity of the method is proved by the experimental results.