Research Article
Fault Diagnosis for Hydraulic Servo System Using Compressed
Random Subspace Based ReliefF
Yu Ding ,
1,2
Fei Wang ,
1,2
Zhen-ya Wang ,
3
and Wen-jin Zhang
1,2
1
School of Reliability and Systems Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China
2
Science & Technology on Reliability and Environmental Engineering Laboratory, Beijing, China
3
Research and Development Center, China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, Beijing, China
Correspondence should be addressed to Wen-jin Zhang; buaazwjok@yeah.net
Received 28 October 2017; Revised 5 January 2018; Accepted 14 January 2018; Published 18 February 2018
Academic Editor: Gangbing Song
Copyright © 2018 Yu Ding et al. Tis is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which
permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Playing an important role in electromechanical systems, hydraulic servo system is crucial to mechanical systems like engineering
machinery, metallurgical machinery, ships, and other equipment. Fault diagnosis based on monitoring and sensory signals
plays an important role in avoiding catastrophic accidents and enormous economic losses. Tis study presents a fault diagnosis
scheme for hydraulic servo system using compressed random subspace based ReliefF (CRSR) method. From the point of view
of feature selection, the scheme utilizes CRSR method to determine the most stable feature combination that contains the most
adequate information simultaneously. Based on the feature selection structure of ReliefF, CRSR employs feature integration rules
in the compressed domain. Meanwhile, CRSR substitutes information entropy and fuzzy membership for traditional distance
measurement index. Te proposed CRSR method is able to enhance the robustness of the feature information against interference
while selecting the feature combination with balanced information expressing ability. To demonstrate the efectiveness of the
proposed CRSR method, a hydraulic servo system joint simulation model is constructed by HyPneu and Simulink, and three fault
modes are injected to generate the validation data.
1. Introduction
Hydraulic servo system plays a crucial role in electrome-
chanical systems, like engineering machinery, metallurgical
machinery, ships, and other equipment. Failures of hydraulic
servo system caused by severe and complex conditions may
lead to catastrophic accidents and enormous economic losses.
Fault diagnosis based on monitoring and sensory signals
is able to classify the current state of complex systems,
which plays a key role in performance evaluation [1]. Feature
set extracted from signals is an important index to refect
the fault mechanism and performance evolution laws. Te
quality of feature set plays a key role in improving the
generalization ability of fault identifcation [2]. Te common
feature extraction methods are time-frequency index extrac-
tion, wavelet analysis, Hilbert transform, Dufng oscillator,
and so on. Despite their respective applicable conditions
and limitations, those methods are able to mine the health
characteristics of the system from multiaspect [3, 4]. Same as
machine learning, features extracted from images, speeches,
and other signals ofen have certain correlations and hidden
mutual infuences. Information expressed by a single feature
is usually inadequate, which can be greatly improved when
the single feature is aggregated with others [5]. Similarly,
due to the nonlinearity, instability, and nonconformity of
complex electromechanical systems, the expression of the
information on individual feature is ofen one-sided. Tus, a
new challenge is how to utilize those features more efectively
and efciently, in other words, how to obtain the feature set
that expresses the information sufciently by eliminating the
redundant and negatively correlated features [6–9].
To tackle the challenge mentioned above, on the premise
of existing feature extraction techniques, feature process-
ing techniques including feature selection and dimension
reduction have gradually become an important research
focus. Both feature selection and dimension reduction can
reduce the scale of feature set by obtaining a set of principal
variables. Such techniques ofen use a variety of feature
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Volume 2018, Article ID 8740989, 14 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/8740989