基于改进D-S证据理论的航空发动机转子故障决策融合诊断研究

针对单一传感器的测量信息难以准确、全面地反映航空发动机转子、轴承和齿轮的工作状况,进而造成振动故障诊断难度大的问题,提出安装多个振动传感器组成传感器网络,建立基于多传感器信息的发动机转子故障决策融合诊断系统。由于多传感器系统不可避免地会存在各传感器信息不一致、信息冲突的情形,因此针对该融合诊断系统的信号测量、信息预处理、特征提取、故障诊断及决策融合5个环节,重点研究了决策融合环节的Dempster-Shafer（D-S）证据决策融合方法存在的冲突证据融合失效问题。通过分析原因,从避免“一票否决”现象和证据加权平均两个方面进行改进,提出了改进D-S证据融合方法,并应用于航空发动机转子的模拟故障决策融合诊断中。结果表明基于D-S证据理论对3个传感器的单一诊断结果进行决策融合,能得到比任一单个传感器更准确、可靠的结果;而改进D-S证据融合方法由于能在一定程度上克服冲突证据融合带来的失效问题,且能同时兼顾处理好非冲突证据的融合,故其对于证据冲突和非冲突情形都取得了较好的融合效果,因此总的分类正确率要高于常规D-S算法和PCR5算法。     

基于SVD卡尔曼滤波器的航空发动机参数估计

航空发动机推力估计所需要的健康参数较多,而安装的传感器数量相对较少。为解决二者之间的矛盾．运用奇异值分解算法,设计了基于该算法的降维卡尔曼滤波器,对用少量传感器发动机的健康参数进行最优估计,进而重构发动机的推力。数字仿真结果验证了其在航空发动机中应用的可能性。     

基于SPSO-SVR的融合航空发动机传感器故障诊断

针对航空发动机常见的传感器故障问题, 提出了一种利用改进的粒子群算法训练支持向量回归机, 并利用融合机制将其应用于传感器故障诊断.论述了用一簇支持向量回归机(SVR)预测器对传感器进行实时检测, 通过逻辑判断机制隔离故障传感器, 并且依据剩余的无故障传感器信息实现信号重构.以某型航空发动机传感器在其整个工作范围内受到的冲击、偏置和漂移故障为例, 验证了基于自协调粒子群优化支持向量回归机(SPSO-SVR)算法的融合诊断机制对传感器单一故障和多重故障具有较高的精度和计算效率.      

考虑性能退化的航空发动机故障诊断量化评估

航空发动机全生命周期内的故障诊断一直是研究的热点,为保障航空发动机在性能退化条件下故障诊断算法的可靠性,对考虑性能退化的航空发动机进行故障可诊断性量化评估有着重要的意义。本文从状态量的可测量性以及最优观测器设计两个方面对退化状态下航空发动机的滑动窗口模型进行解耦处理。从故障可检测及可隔离两个方面对故障的可诊断性进行量化评估,以巴氏距离为量化标准,将量化评估问题转换为多元分布概率距离求解问题。同时,从故障空间的角度对故障可隔离性进行定义,剥离了参考故障模式的影响,将可隔离性转化为故障空间中故障模式的固有属性,并给出航空发动机故障可检测及可隔离的判据。仿真实验证明,本文所提出的方法可以在发动机性能退化条件下对控制系统传感器、执行机构故障以及发动机气路部件故障进行可诊断性量化评估。     

A quantization architecture for track fusion

Many practical multi-sensor tracking systems are based on some form of track fusion, in which local track estimates and their associated covariances are shared among sensors. Communication load is a significant concern, and the goal of this paper is to propose an architecture for low-bandwidth track fusion. The scheme involves intelligent scalar and vector quantization of the local state estimates and of the associated estimation error covariance matrices. Simulation studies indicate that the communication saving can be quite significant, with only minor degradation of track accuracy.     

Architectures and algorithms for track association and fusion

Target tracking using multiple sensors can provide better performance than using a single sensor. One approach to multiple target tracking with multiple sensors is to first perform single sensor tracking and then fuse the tracks from the different sensors. Two processing architectures for track fusion are presented: sensor to sensor track fusion, and sensor to system track fusion. Technical issues related to the statistical correlation between track estimation errors are discussed. Approaches for associating the tracks and combining the track state estimates of associated tracks that account for this correlation are described and compared by both theoretical analysis and Monte Carlo simulations     

Temporally staggered sensors in multi-sensor target tracking systems

For a multi-sensor target tracking system, the effects of temporally staggered sensors on system performance are investigated and compared with those of synchronous sensors. To capture system performance over time, a new metric, the average estimation error variance (AEV), is proposed. For a system that has N sensors with equal measurement noise variance, numerical results show that the optimal staggering pattern is to use N uniformly staggered sensors. We have also shown analytically that the AEV of the system with N uniformly staggered sensors is always smaller than that of the system with N synchronous sensors. For sensors with different measurement noise variances, the optimal staggering pattern can be found numerically. Practical guidelines on selecting the optimal staggering pattern have been presented for different target tracking scenarios. Due to its simplicity, uniform staggering can be used as an alternative scheme with relatively small performance degradation.     

面向飞机装配精准定位的状态感知技术

状态感知、实时分析、自主决策、精准执行是航空智能制造的特征。总结影响飞机部件装配单元定位精度的多种因素,并结合感知技术发展,深入分析部件装配单元的可感知因素及其获取方式,确定了部件装配单元可感知的关键要素:装配现场温度、定位器所受载荷、定位器位移、产品位姿。结合飞机机翼装配单元,设计感知信息获取方式。通过模糊优选方法,构建传感器型号优选模型,完成部件装配单元传感器选型。通过传感器测量偏差平均化的方法,构建多种类、多数量的传感器布局模型,确定部件装配单元传感器的数目与位置,完成了传感器布局设计。基于多传感器信息融合方法,设计多传感器信息融合模型,对感知的多源异构信息进行融合处理,并通过构建状态感知模型,实现对部件装配单元定位状态的直观表达。     

基于UIO的航空发动机控制系统传感器故障诊断

研究了航空发动机控制系统传感器鲁棒故障检测与隔离问题,提出了一种克服不同干扰对控制系统诊断性能影响的方法.应用未知输入观测器(unknown input observer,简称UIO)理论来解耦航空发动机动态系统干扰,并针对控制系统传感器设计一族UIO,提取出一系列的传感器残差特征数据,通过分析残差队列的幅值特性,实现航空发动机控制系统传感器故障诊断.在高斯白噪声、模型工作点变化和非高斯噪声三类干扰下的数字仿真结果表明,不管何种干扰,UIO诊断方法均能检测和隔离出传感器故障,在诊断鲁棒性方面,要优于Kalman滤波器诊断算法.      

Linearization errorʼs measure and its influence on the accuracy of MEKF based attitude determination method

Multiplicative Extended Kalman Filter (MEKF) is one of the most widely used satellite attitude estimation methods. However, the linearization error?s influence is an inherent limitation of this method. In this paper, we aim to analyze this linearization error in the typical satellite attitude determination system with star sensors and gyros. The formulation of linearization error is first derived and the curvature metric is then employed to measure the linearization error. Additionally, we show the reason why linearization error has influence on the performance of MEKF. Based on these analyses, we point out that star sensors? sampling frequency, initial estimated error and accuracy of gyro?s measurement model are the factors that could enlarge the system model?s linearization error. They all affect the linearization error and attitude determination accuracy by decreasing the predicted accuracy. More concretely, the influence of star sensor?s sampling frequency is large, while initial estimated error and gyro?s measurement error within a certain range have little influence on MEKF. Finally, combined with plenty of experiments, validity of the above analyses is verified.     

基于自联想网络的发动机传感器解析余度技术

本文提出了一种基于自联想神经网络的传感器解析余度技术。在这种网络中,冗余传感器的信息被压缩、重组进入网络的第一部分,网络的第二部分将压缩信息恢复出来。基于数据融合原理,若一个传感器发生故障,其它传感器仍可提供足够的信息代替发生故障的传感器。理论分析和用于涡轴发动机的仿真结果表明,这种特殊结构的自联想网络具有良好的过滤噪声和故障信号的作用,特别适合于用作不易建模的复杂对象的传感器信号重构     

Performance evaluation of multi-sensor classification systems

A common problem in classification is to use one/more sensors to observe repeated measurements of a target's features/attributes, and in turn update the targets' posterior classification probabilities to aid in target identification. This paper addresses the following questions: 1. How do we quantify the classification performance of a sensor? 2. What happens to the posterior probabilities as the number of measurements increase? 3. Will the targets be classified correctly? While the Kalman filter allows for off-line estimation of kinematic performance (covariance matrix), a comparable approach for studying classification accuracy has not been done previously. We develop a new analytical approach for computing the long-run classification performance of a sensor and also present recursive formulas for efficient calculation of the same. We show that, under a minimal condition, a sensor will eventually classify all targets perfectly. We also develop a methodology for evaluating the classification performance of multi-sensor fusion systems involving sensors of varying quality. The contributions of this paper are 1. A simple metric to quantify a sensor's ability to discriminate between the targets being identified, and its use in comparing multiple sensors, 2. An approximate formula based on this metric to compute off-line estimates of the rate of convergence toward perfect classification, and the number of measurements required to achieve a desired level of classification accuracy, and 3. The use of this metric to evaluate classification performance of multi-sensor fusion systems.     

包含乘性噪声自适应修正的非合作目标相对导航算法

无人机（UAV）态势感知的任务是利用机载传感器对未知环境进行目标识别和引导,针对无人机与非合作目标间中远距离的相对导航问题,提出了一种基于角度和距离量测的相对状态估计算法。在现有滤波算法的基础上,为了提高精度和稳定性,本文利用了列文伯格-马夸尔特（LM）优化的思想对迭代卡尔曼滤波（IEKF）算法进行改进,提出了一种LM-IEKF算法,并推导该算法在迭代过程中的状态更新方程及协方差阵的递推公式。在此基础上,考虑到距离传感器由于信号相关特性而引入的乘性噪声,现有的加性噪声模型难以适应,因此,进一步提出了基于量测噪声自适应修正的Modified LM-IEKF方法,通过在线实时更新噪声阵提高滤波的精度,并设置渐消记忆指数平滑估计结果。算法验证结果表明,与现有的EKF、IEKF算法相比,在仅含加性噪声的情况下,LM-IEKF算法具有更好的性能;在包含乘性噪声的情况下,Modified LM-IEKF可以有效地估计量测噪声,与目前广泛使用的EKF算法相比,在综合相对位置和相对速度精度上分别提高了10%和23%。     

多传感器监测飞机部件非线性退化评估

飞机部件一般采用多传感器进行状态监控,针对退化过程具有非线性特征的民机典型部件剩余寿命（RUL）预测及评估问题,首先建立了部件性能参数的一般非线性Wiener退化过程,推导出基于多传感器监测数据的剩余寿命预测框架和概率密度函数,随后利用状态空间模型进行隐退化状态估计并同时利用最大期望算法（EM）实现参数递推估计,最后形成了飞机部件多传感器监测下的剩余寿命非线性退化评估方法。通过数值仿真案例和民航发动机剩余寿命预测案例,对比线性退化模型和基于单一传感器监测数据的非线性退化模型,验证了所提方法在提高剩余寿命预测精度的有效性,可为飞机及其部件的剩余使用寿命预测和视情维护决策提供技术支撑。     

基于二阶鲁棒滑模观测器的民用涡扇发动机气路故障诊断

针对状态估计器在航空发动机气路参数估计中响应迟缓、鲁棒性不强等问题,以未知输入重构的思路,提出了一种基于Super-twisting滑模观测器的航空发动机气路故障诊断方法。通过将健康参数考虑为未知输入,设计滑模切换项重构健康参数的变化量,由于避免了状态估计器设计中健康参数导数为零的假设,本文的方法在处理突变故障时拥有更快的响应速度。针对鲁棒性问题,提出了一种新的故障向量增广形式,通过将扰动项增广至健康参数向量中,观测器的重构信号能够同时估计出健康参数变化量以及扰动项的大小,实现扰动与部件故障的解耦,从而避免了不确定项对健康参数估计结果的影响。本文建立了民用涡扇发动机包线范围内的线性变参数模型,通过不同故障模式下的数值仿真,并与状态估计器比较,验证了方法的有效性。结果表明,设计的滑模观测器具有小于0.5%的估计误差,有效地提高了气路健康参数的估计速度,增强了对不确定性的鲁棒性。     

The modeling and estimation of asynchronous multirate multisensor dynamic systems

An asynchronous data fusion problem based on a kind of multirate multisensor dynamic system is studied. The system is observed by multirate sensors independently, with the state model known at the finest scale. Under the assumption that the sampling rates of sensors decrease successively by any positive integers, the discrete dynamic system models are established based on each single sensor and an asynchronous multirate multisensor state fusion estimation algorithm is presented. Theoretically, the estimate is proven to be unbiased and the optimal in the sense of linear minimum covariance, the fused estimate is better than the Kalman filtering results based on each single sensor, and the accuracy of the fused estimate will decrease if any of the sensors' information is neglected. The feasibility and effectiveness of the algorithm are shown through simulations.     

航空发动机燃油系统执行机构及其传感器故障诊断

提出了基于执行机构模型和航空发动机逆模型的执行机构及其传感器单一故障诊断和定位方法.基于执行机构小闭环结构建立了3阶执行机构传递函数模型.基于两个并联的BP(back propagation)神经网络,建立了航空发动机稳态逆模块和动态补偿模块,形成航空发动机逆模型,以实现基于航空发动机输出的燃油流量估计.以执行机构模型输出和传感器输出之间的偏差为依据进行故障判别,以航空发动机逆模型输出和传感器输出偏差为依据对故障进行定位.以某型航空发动机及其燃油系统执行机构模型为对象进行的仿真,结果表明,该诊断系统可在航空发动机稳态、动态情况下准确地诊断出幅值在1.6%以上的执行机构及其传感器故障并进行定位,验证了所提出故障诊断方法的有效性.      

Performance evaluation of track fusion with information matrixfilter

In a multisensor environment, each sensor detects multiple targets and creates corresponding tracks. Fusion of tracks from these, possibly dissimilar, sensors yields more accurate kinematic and attribute information regarding the target. Two methodologies have been employed for such purpose, which are: measurement fusion and state vector fusion. It is well known that the measurement fusion approach is optimal but computationally inefficient and the state vector fusion algorithms are more efficient but suboptimal, in general. This is so because the state vector estimates to be fused obtained from two sensors, are not conditionally independent in general due to the common process noise from the target being tracked. It is to be noted that there are three approaches to state vector fusion, which are: weighted covariance, information matrix, and pseudomeasurement. This research is restricted solely to performance evaluation of the information matrix form of state vector fusion. Closed-form analytical solution of steady state fused covariance has been derived as a measure of performance using this approach. Note that the results are derived under the assumptions that the two sensors are synchronized and no misassociation or merged measurement is considered in the study. Results are compared with those using Monte Carlo simulation, which was used in the past to predict fusion system performance by various authors. These results provide additional insight into the mechanism of track fusion and greatly simplify evaluation of fusion performance. In addition, availability of such a solution facilitates the trade-off studies for designing fusion systems under various operating conditions     

SINS/GPS/SST/高度表组合导航系统异步融合算法

针对不同类型导航传感器的采样率不同步,提出了一种基于状态方程多尺度变换的组合导航系统信息异步融合算法。首先,建立组合导航系统基于最高采样率下的状态方程;然后,将状态方程分解到不同的尺度上,进而建立基于不同尺度上的多个状态方程及其对应的量测方程;最后,建立基于不同尺度上的全局最优信息融合算法。仿真结果验证了该算法能有较好的实时性和融合精度。     

Fault diagnosis based on measurement reconstruction of HPT exit pressure for turbofan engine

Aero-engine gas path health monitoring plays a critical role in Engine Health Management(EHM). To achieve unbiased estimation, traditional filtering methods have strict requirements on measurement parameters which sometimes cannot be measured in engineering. The most typical one is the High-Pressure Turbine(HPT) exit pressure, which is vital to distinguishing failure modes between different turbines. For the case of an abrupt failure occurring in a single turbine component, a model-based sensor measurement reconstruction method is proposed in this paper. First,to estimate the missing measurements, the forward algorithm and the backward algorithm are developed based on corresponding component models according to the failure hypotheses. Then,a new fault diagnosis logic is designed and the traditional nonlinear filter is improved by adding the measurement estimation module and the health parameter correction module, which uses the reconstructed measurement to complete the health parameters estimation. Simulation results show that the proposed method can well restore the desired measurement and the estimated measurement can be used in the turbofan engine gas path diagnosis. Compared with the diagnosis under the condition of missing sensors, this method can distinguish between different failure modes, quantify the variations of health parameters, and achieve good performance at multiple operating points in the flight envelope.