Application of support vector machine nonlinear classifier to fault diagnoses

Support vector machine (SVM) is a novel machine learning method based on statistical learning theory. SVM is a powerful tool for solving problems with small samples, nonlinearities and local minima, and is of excellent performance in classification. In the paper, the SVM nonlinear classification algorithm is reviewed. The SVM nonlinear classifier is applied to deal with fault diagnosis. SVM is easy to implement for fault diagnosis. Effective results are obtained of using the SVM for fault diagnosis.