Performance Assessment of Hydraulic Servo System Based on Radial Basis Function Neural Network and Mahalanobis Distance

Abstract:

The performance assessment of hydraulic servo systems has attracted an increasing amount of attention in recent years. However, only a few studies have focused on practical approaches in this field. A performance assessment method based on radial basis function (RBF) neural network and Mahalanobis distance (MD) is proposed in this study; the method is quantized by the performance confidence value (CV). An observer model based on RBF neural network is designed to calculate the residual error between the actual and estimated outputs. The root mean square (RMS), peak value, and average absolute value are then extracted as the features of residual error, which serve as the coordinates of the feature points. Lastly, the MD between the most recent feature point and the constructed Mahalanobis space is calculated. The condition of the system is assessed by normalizing MD into a CV. The proposed method is proven to be effective by a simulation model in which leakage faults are injected. Experimental results show that the proposed method can assess the performance of hydraulic servo systems effectively.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 764-765)
• Pages: 613-618
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.764-765.613
• Online since: May 2015
• Authors: Zhen Ya Wang, Chen Lu, Hong Mei Liu*, Zi Han Chen
• Keywords: Confidence Value, Hydraulic Servo System, Mahalanobis Distance, Performance Assessment, Radial Basis Function Neural Network

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