Intelligent diagnosis in electromechanical operation systems

The real-time fault detection and diagnosis are critical for healthy operation of electromechanical systems, of which the complex characteristics affect the performance of current shop floor fault diagnosis methods. Aiming to overcome the drawbacks, this paper presents a new fault diagnosis method using a newly developed method, support vector machines (SVM). First, the basic theory of SVM is briefly introduced and new intelligent fault diagnosis system is presented. Next, three common SVM algorithms - v-SV, Lagrangian, and hyper-kernel - are employed for the proposed multiple faults diagnosis system. In comparison, the trade-offs among these three methods are discussed resulting in a general guideline of selecting appropriate learning algorithm for various applications. Then, the methods are applied for diagnosing vibration signals of a typical electromechanical system, elevator door. The real-time tests on 10 faulty conditions demonstrate that the proposed method is effective and efficient. In addition, the method requires only few training samples and permits fast calculation, giving it a big potential in real-world applications.