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2017 International Conference on Sensing, Diagnostics, Prognostics, and Control

Fault Diagnosis and Health Assessment of Landing Gear Hydraulic Retraction System
based on Multi-source Information Feature Fusion

Kuijian Liu1, Yunwen Feng2, Xiaofeng Xue


Department of Aircraft Design Engineering
School of Aeronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University
Xi’an, China
E-mail: 1liukuijian@mail.nwpu.edu.cn, 2fengyunwen@nwpu.edu.cn

Abstract—In order to solve the problems that a single signal there are some shortcomings in knowledge-based method,
cannot provide sufficient fault information, while the direct such as difficulty for knowledge acquisition, and the
using of multi-sensor signals for fusion diagnosis will lead to a diagnostic accuracy depends on the experience of experts in
heavy calculation which will reduce the diagnostic efficiency, a a great degree. Data-based diagnostic method is based on the
multi-source information feature fusion method is proposed in historical data of the system. And the analytical model need
this paper. The stacked denoising autoencoders (SDAE) is used not to be established and has strong applicability. Pollmeier
to extract the abstract features of time-domain features of et al. [7] used artificial neural network for fault diagnosis of
multi-source signals, and then locality preserving projection electro-hydraulic servo system. The neural network can
(LPP) is used to dimension reduction to complete the feature
identify multiple fault modes. Zhao et al. [8] proposed a
fusion. Finally, the fused low-dimensional features act as inputs
hydraulic pump fault diagnosis method based on rough set
to the support vector machine (SVM) to realize the failure
detection and fault location of typical fault modes of the and support vector machine. Kim [9] compared the
landing gear hydraulic retraction system. The inhibitory effect diagnostic results of HP-LNG pump using three different
of the closed-loop system on the incipient fault is discussed as methods and proved that the distance evaluation technique
well. Moreover, a health assessment method is presented (DET) has a better feature extraction capacity. Byington [10]
considering the gradual degradation of leakage fault of the proposed an aircraft hydraulic system fault diagnosis and
actuator. The results show that the proposed method is more health management method using neural network and
accurate and reliable than any single signal result. The model realized remaining life predictions for aircraft actuator
of health assessment can give the internal leakage severity of components. Balaban et al. [11] developed a health
the actuator. The significance of this paper is to provide a management system for electromechanical actuators that
feasible idea of the fault diagnosis and health assessment of the could be used for next generation aircraft and spacecraft.
landing gear hydraulic retraction system. They proposed a diagnostic algorithm using a combined
model-based and data-driven reasoner.
Keywords- fault diagnosis; health assessment; landing gear; Although the above methods had been applied success-
hydraulic retraction system; multi-source; SDAE; LPP; feature fully, there are still some restrictions in these data-driven
fusion; closed-loop diagnosis methods [7-11]. For example, the above methods
extract features from a single signal, which cannot provide
I. INTRODUCTION sufficient fault information [12]. Though multi-sensor
The aircraft landing gear is generally taken the hydraulic signals were used for fault diagnosis in [13], the features
system as the power of retraction and extension, whether the extraction was carried out without fusion. And the direct use
hydraulic retraction system can work normally will affect the of multi-sensor signals for fusion diagnosis will lead to a
safety of aircraft and occupants [1]. The hydraulic system heavy calculation which will reduce the fault diagnosis
has a high failure rate according to the historical use of efficiency. Zhou et al. [14] pointed out that information
landing gear, but the current landing gear fault diagnosis can fusion is the trend of the data-driven diagnosis of hydraulic
only rely on experience of maintenance personnel and system. The purpose of information fusion is to integrate
ground test [2]. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out on-line multiple signals in order to obtain more reliable information,
fault diagnosis study on the landing gear hydraulic retraction while reducing the complexity of the data. Traditional
system to reduce maintenance cost and improve the shallow learning model, like BP neural network, can also
reliability and safety of the system [3, 4]. merge multi-source information, but it is easy to be over-
At the aspect of knowledge-based fault diagnosis, Abbott fitting, which means a weak generalization capacity. Unlike
et al. [5] proposed a fault diagnosis expert system for the the shallow model, the deep learning model can extract
hydraulic system on the space shuttle, which is used to assist higher-level and more abstract features from the input data
the hydraulic system design and improve the reliability. through a series of nonlinear maps [15]. In this paper, a
Yang [6] analyzed the working principle of the landing gear method of feature fusion using stacked denoising
at first, and a fault diagnosis expert system was established autoencoders (SDAE) and locality preserving projection
for the health management of the landing gear. However, (LPP) [16] is proposed to realize the fault diagnosis and
location of the typical fault modes of landing gear hydraulic

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DOI 10.1109/SDPC.2017.68
system such as actuator leakage, insufficient opening volume y = gθ ' (h ) = f ( WT h + b ' ) (3)
of the selector valve, hydraulic pump leakage, oil filter
blockage. The SDAE is used to obtain abstract features of Sigmoid function f (z ) act as a decoder activation
the pre-processed multi-source signals. Then, the LPP is function, θ ' ={WT ,b' } are the decoder parameters, W T is
used to merge abstract features and extract the most the weight matrix of the decoder which called tied weights,
representative information while reducing feature
and b ' is the bias unit.
dimensions and improving the efficiency of diagnosis.
Finally, the SVM algorithm is used to implement fault The parameters set ș={θ ,θ ' }={W,b, WT ,b' } of the
classification. Moreover, considering the gradual degradation autoencoder are used to minimize the reconstruction error
of leakage fault of the actuator, having the ability to judge between the input and output layers
whether the actuator is normal or faulty is not enough. The n

paper also carried out a study on the health assessment of the J AE (ș) = L(x, y ) = −¦ [ x k log(y k ) + (1 − x k ) log(1 − y k )] (4)
leakage fault of the hydraulic actuator. k =1
where L(x, y ) is a loss function that is used to measure the
II. THEORY OF THE PROPOSED METHOD reconstruction error between the reconstructed output vector
and the input vector. The parameters are updated by using
A. Traditional Autoencoder the gradient descent method for each step.
An Autoencoder (AE) is a simple, unsupervised, three
B. Stacked Denoising Autoencoder
layer neural networks that can learn the abstract representa-
tion of input data. The autoencoder contains an encoder and Stacked Denoising Autoencoder firstly being proposed by
a decoder. The encoder constructs the hidden layer through Vincent et al. [17] in 2010. The idea of this method is to add
the input layer. The decoder constructs the output layer a certain degree of noise into the input vector, that is, the
through the hidden layer based on the optimization of corruption of the raw input. Then the corruption data is used
minimizing the reconstruction error between the input layer to do the conventional encoding and decoding process. The
and the output layer. Then the hidden layer is the abstract target is to reconstruct the raw input that is the same as the
representation of the input layer. Fig. 1 is the basic structure autoencoder. Denoising autoencoder can reduce the effect of
of autoencoder, the first layer is the input layer, the middle background noise and establish a more robust reconstruction.
layer is the hidden layer, the third layer is the output layer. Gaussian noise is usually selected in the corruption process.
The whole process of DAE is shown in Fig. 2.
hidden layer h Loss funtion
x1 y1 h1 h2 h3 hm L( x, y )
h1 fθ
gθ '
x2 y2 x1 x2 x3 xn
İ
x1 x2 x3 xn y1 y 2 y 3 y n
h2 corruption x rowinput x reconstruction y
x3 y3
Fig. 2. Architecture of DAE
Encoder Decoder
hm Similar to the autoencoder, the goal of a DAE is to
xn yn
minimize the reconstruction error as well. The loss function
hbias of the DAE is
xbias n
J DAE (ș) = L(x, y ) = −¦ [ xk log( yk ) + (1 − xk ) log(1 − yk ) ] (5)
1

k =1
Fig. 1. Autoencoder.
With
The encoder maps the input vector x ={x1 ,x 2 ,! ,x D } (for  ) = f ( WT h
y =gθ ' (h  + b' ) (6)
each sample x i = [ x1 , x2 , ! , xn ] ∈  ) to the hidden layer
T n
h = f (x) = f ( Wx + b ) (7)
θ

(for each hidden layer h i = [h1 , h 2 , ! , h m ] ∈  )through


T m
x=x + İ, İ ~ N (0, σ I) 2
(8)
the sigmoid function f (z ) . 
where x is the raw data, x is the corruption data, and İ is the
h = fθ (x) = f ( Wx + b) (1) additive Gaussian noise.
The stacked denoising autoencoders consist of multiple
f (z ) = 1/ (1 + exp(−z )) (2)
DAE, and each output of the previous layer is taken as the
where θ ={W,b} are the encoder parameters, W ∈  m× n is input to the next layer. A SDAE is trained through the
weight matrix, and b ∈  m is the bias unit. greedy layerwise approach by training each layer in turn.
Then, the decoder reconstructs the input layer at the Each time only one DAE’s parameters will be updated and
output layer, the output reconstruction vector is y = the other layer’s remain unchanged. In this paper, the SDAE
[ y1 , y 2 , ! , y n ]T as followed is trained in an unsupervised way. The time-domain features

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obtained from multiple signals are input to the SDAE with from the deep networks, the LPP is then used for further
two hidden layers for deep feature fusion. The fusion process fusion.
is shown in Fig. 3. After the higher-level features are learned
Stacked Denoising autoencoders

x1
Signal 1 Time − domain features LPP for deep fusion
h1(2)
h1(1)
x2 y = AT x
Signal 2 Time − domain features h2(2)
h2(1)
x3
"

"
h3(2)
(1)
h m
Signal n Time − domain features
xn hl(2)
+1
+1

Fig. 3. Feature fusion using SDAE and LPP

Monitoring data: Pre-processing Feature fusion Classification

Hydraulic pump pressure Time-domain features Stacked DAE LPP SVM


Mode detect

Data mean class 1


Inlet acutator pressure variance
T
y =A x
peak class 2
Angular displacement residual
skewness

"
Mode
Selector valve current kurtosis class n
crest factor
Inlet acutator flow rate root mean square
""

Fig. 4. Steps of the proposed method

[16]. The LPP is able to keep the geometric structure of the


C. Fault diagnosis steps for landing gear hydraulic system original data after the low-dimensional mapping which
based on multi-souce information feature fusion ensures that the learned deeper features will not be lost.
The idea of the proposed feature fusion diagnostic Finally, using the support vector machine to complete the
method in this paper is shown in Fig. 4. The method fault diagnosis. SVM algorithm is based on the theory of
accomplished multi-source information feature fusion by statistical learning and structural risk minimization principle.
using stacked denoising autoencoders and locality preserving The key of this method is to find a hyper plane which is
projection. defined by the support vectors while the distance of two data
First of all, for the landing gear hydraulic system, signals sets to the hyper plane being maximized. Its theoretical
such as the flow rate, pressure et al. will be used to monitor introduction can be seen in [20]. Multiple modes
the state of the system. These signals are usually non-
classification problem of SVM can be solved by converting
stationary, so it is difficult to extract features through
into series binary classification problem.
traditional FFT analysis. Therefore, time-domain features
such as mean, root mean square, skewness and other III. LANDING GEAR HYDRAULIC SYSTEM SIMULATION
statistical features are calculated, as showed in Table I.
These preprocessed features need to be normalized by (9) A. Simulation Model
before feature fusion.
In this paper, AMESim software is used to establish the
x (i ) = ( x( i ) − xmin
(i ) (i )
) / ( xmax (i )
− xmin ) (9) aircraft nose landing gear hydraulic system. Fig. 5. shows the
Secondly, the SDAE is used for the initial multi-source system can be divided into three subsystems: 1. Hydraulic
information fusion, which can learn higher-level abstract energy system 2. Hydraulic servo system 3. Hydraulic
representation from the input statistical features. It is pointed control system.
out in [17] that the method is able to improve the The hydraulic energy system provides suitable pressure
performance of classifier like SVM. and flow rate for the hydraulic system. The oil flows through
Thirdly, the dimension of abstract features learned from the oil filter, the check valve, the accumulator and the relief
the SDAE is reduced by using LPP. Deep features learned valve to the selector valve. According to the received signals
from multiple signals are often high-dimensional, and some (retraction, extension or neutral) of the hydraulic control
measures need to be taken to reduce the dimensions and to system, the corresponding hydraulic pressure and flow rate
improve the efficiency of diagnosis. LPP is an effective
will be supplied to lock actuator and retracting actuator by
feature dimension reduction method [18, 19]. The detailed
the selector valve.
algorithm of locality preserving projection can be found in

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TABLE I STATISTICAL FEATURES
Statistical characteristics Formula Statistical characteristics Formula
1 N 1 N
x = ¦ xk ¦ ( xi − x )
2
mean Variance var =
N k =1 N − 1 k =1
2
1 N ª1 N º
¦ xk xsra = « ¦ xk
2 12
Root mean square xrms = Square root Amplitude value »
N k =1 ¬ N k =1 ¼
N
1 1 N
3 ¦ ¦ xk
Skewness xskew = ( xk − x ) 3 Absolute mean Amplitude value xave =
( N − 1)σ k =1 N k =1
N
1
Kurtosis xkurtosis = ¦
( N − 1)σ 4 k =1
( xk − x ) 4 Peak-to-Peak x p − p = max( x) − min( x)

Crest factor CF = x peak / xrms Peak x peak = max x


Impulse factor IF = x peak / xkurtosis Shape factor SF = xrms / xave
Kurtosis factor KF = xrms / xkurtosis

extension/retraction failure of the landing gear, which


9
contributes to serious flight accidents. According to the
10 8 historical failure records and ground testing results, this
paper mainly considers four kinds of typical failure modes of
5 6
7 landing gear hydraulic system (including the normal state are
4 3 5 classes), as shown in Table II.
1
TABLE II TYPICAL FAULT MODES OF LANDING GEAR HYDRAULIC SYSTEM
11 Class Fault mode Fault Fault reason
Phenomenon
Class1 Normal None None
Unable to
2 Hydraulic actua-
complete the Piston rod wear,
Class2 tor internal leak-
specified action oil seal failure
Hydraulic energy system age
or with delay
Hydraulic servo system Insufficient outlet
Hydraulic control system
Insufficient ope- pre-ssure and Deterioration of
1. hydraulic pump 2. motor 3. tank 4. oil filter 5. throttle valve Class3 ning of the se- small outlet flow spool coil or cy-
6. relief valve 7. accumulator 8. check valve 9. selector valve lector valve rate of selector linder wear
10. actuator 11. hydraulic lock
valve
Fig. 5. Nose landing gear hydraulic system Insufficient outlet
Cylinder wear
Hydraulic pump pre-ssure and
Class4 or oil seal
The designed unlock time of landing gear is 2s, extension internal leakage flow rate of
failure
hydraulic pump
time is 10s, and retraction time is 7s. Set the landing gear to
Small outlet flow
the down position (the corresponding angle is 0°). After the Oil filter block- rate of filter and
Blockage
unlocking process is completed, the landing gear starts to Class5 caused by oil
age the pressure is
contami-nation
retraction and to be locked in the up position (corresponding too high
to 87°). Few seconds later, the landing gear starts to
extension and to be locked in the down position. The total
simulation time is set to 35s. The response angle C. Landing gear hydraulic system signal selection
displacement curve of landing gear is shown in Fig. 6. It can considering closed-loop control system
be seen that the system have good dynamic response. A variety of dynamic signals will be generated during the
Simulation result shows that the landing gear hydraulic landing gear hydraulic system operation. And the appropriate
system is able to complete the specified retraction action and signals which can reflect the system's operating state are
the simulation results are credible. conducive to fault diagnosis. Ref. [21] pointed out that the
closed-loop control will make the slight fault covered. Fig. 7.
B. Typical Fault Modes shows the angle displacement responses under different
The landing gear hydraulic system is a system with a leakage coefficients. It can be seen that the closed-loop
high failure rate on the aircraft, and its failure can cause control system suppresses the impact of leakage.

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100 100

Retraction and extension angle (°)


Retraction and extension angle (°)
Response angle displacement 0
90 90
Input control signal 0.01
80 80 0.02
0.05
70 70
0.10
60 60

50 50

40 40

30 30

20 20

10 10

0 0

-10 -10
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
Time (s) Time (s)
Fig. 6. Input control signal and response signal curve Fig. 7. Response curve under different leakage coefficients

1
 250

Angle displacement residual (°)

0.8
200

0.6

Pressure (bar)
150
0.4

0.2
100

50
-0.2

-0.4 0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
Time (s) Time (s)
Fig. 8. Angular displacement residual Fig. 9. Hydraulic pump pressure

Although when the leakage coefficient is 0.05 and 0.1, Then, the time-domain statistical features given in Table I
the extension time are delayed by 1.97s and 3.83s, are extracted for each of the five signals, and each obtained
respectively, in the leakage coefficient of 0.01 and 0.02 the time-domain feature is input to SDAE to learn deeper
landing gear is still able to accomplish extension on time, features.
which means that monitoring the landing gear The biggest problem with deep learning model such as
retraction/extension time or angular displacement cannot be stacked denoising autoencoders applying to the fault
a good judge criterion of whether the landing gear hydraulic diagnosis is the need for more training time than the shallow
system failure or not. When the state of the hydraulic system learning model. However, this should be unacceptable in
is abnormal, the selector valve current and the angle aircraft systems fault diagnosis if the training time was too
displacement residual signal are changed correspondingly by long. And the more the number of hidden layers and nodes
the closed-loop in order to maintain the initial state of the per layer, the longer the training time. Therefore, both the
system. The pressure and the flow rate signal can directly number of hidden layers and nodes should not be too large.
reflect the working condition of the hydraulic system. These In this paper, each SDAE’s input layer has 5 nodes,
signals above-mentioned are easily available in real corresponding to the selected 5 signals. In order to reduce the
hydraulic retracting system. In summary, we select the training time, each SDAE used in this paper contains two
pressure and the flow rate signal of the hydraulic actuator, hidden layers. The first layer has 8 nodes, the second layer
the current signal of the selector valve, the angular has 15 nodes, to dig out more abstract features from the time-
displacement residual signal and the pressure signal of the domain features. Table III is the parameter settings of SDAE.
hydraulic pump as the original data for fault diagnosis. TABLE III CONFIGURATION OF EACH SDAE
IV. RESULTS SDAE
Number of hidden layer 2
A. Diagnostic Results of Landing Gear Hydraulic System Node per layer 5-8-15
Learning rate 0.15
There are five classes in total as we have discussed in Number of epochs 20
part B, section III. And each class have 200 samples, 50% Batch sizes 100
are used for training and 50% for testing. The five original Gaussian noise variance 0.2
signals are the hydraulic pump pressure, the actuator Weight Penalty 0.01
pressure and flow rate, the servo valve current, the angular
displacement residual. Fig. 8. and Fig. 9. show the angular
displacement residual and the hydraulic pump pressure.

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1 0.6

0.5 0.4
PCA 3

LPP 3
0 0.2

-0.5 0

-1 -0.2
1 1.5
0 1 1 1.5
0 1
0.5
PCA 2 -1 -1
PCA 1 0.5
-2 LPP 2 0 0 LPP 1
-2 -3 -0.5 -0.5

Fig. 10. PCA Fig. 11. LPP

-0.497

-0.498
LPP 3

-0.499

-0.5

-0.501
0.43 -0.382
-0.384
0.428 -0.386
-0.388
0.426
-0.39
0.424 -0.392
LPP 2 LPP 1

Fig. 12. The proposed method Fig. 13. Accuracy of different diagnostic methods

The LPP is used to reduce the dimension of the deep a gradual fault, and its severity increases with the
features, and finally obtain the information with the least aggravation of the seal wear. Considering the gradual
dimension for diagnosis. Then, the fused features are input to evolution of the leakage fault, only having the ability to
the SVM classification algorithm to complete the fault divide the actuator into normal or fault state is not enough,
diagnosis of the hydraulic system. Fig. 10. is the result of but it should be the severity of its leakage can be measured
traditional methods using PCA for direct feature fusion and as well. Usually, the confidence value (CV) is used to
dimension reduction, only class2 (hydraulic actuator describe the health of equipment. The closer the CV value is
leakage) can be completely distinguished and other types of to 1 indicates that the actuator is in good health and the
fault modes having a certain degree of mixing. The result of closer to 0 indicates that the actuator leaks more severe.
directly using LPP for feature fusion is shown in Fig. 11. It TABLE IV REGRESSION COEFFICIENTS
can be seen that class3 (insufficient opening of selector
valve) and class 4 (hydraulic pump leakage) are further coefficients θ0 θ1 θ2 θ3
separated and the remaining two fault modes still have a values 0.1630 2.6066 -1.9189 -8.4583
tendency to be mixed together. Fig. 12. is the result of using
the proposed method, we can see that all the fault modes can In this paper, Logistic Regression model is used to
be separated in a great extent. The proposed method using evaluate the health state of the actuator. In[22], the
SDAE and LPP for multi-source information feature fusion derivation and application of the logistic regression model
can increase the degree of separation of fault modes and have are introduced in detail. The inlet pressure and flow signal of
stronger feature fusion ability. Fig. 13. shows the diagnostic the actuator are selected as the original data for the health
accuracy of the training set and testing set using different assessment. 200 samples were collected at different leakage
methods for fault diagnosis. The correct rate of using a single levels (corresponding to a series of different CVs), of which
signal for diagnosis is only 40%-60%, which is unacceptable 75% were used for regression model training and tested with
in hydraulic system fault diagnosis. The correct rate of the the remaining 25%. The trained regression parameters are
proposed methods is 97.6%, which has a better performance shown in Table IV. According to the previous fault analysis,
than PCA (89.8%) or LPP (92.6%). The proposed method in we know that when the leakage coefficient is less than 0.05,
this paper has high fault diagnosis accuracy for the landing the landing gear can still complete the extension on time.
gear hydraulic system. When this value is larger, the retraction time is delayed, so
the corresponding CV value (0.8) is taken as the threshold
B. Health Assessment of Hydraulic Actuator value. Below this value, it is considered that the actuator
Hydraulic actuator leakage is one of the most common leaks too severe which needs to be repaired. Fig. 14. shows
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