An Immune Detector-Based Method for the Diagnosis of Compound Faults in a Petrochemical Plant

Aiming at the serious overlap of traditional dimensionless indices in the diagnosis of compound faults in petrochemical plants, we use genetic programming to construct optimal indices for that purpose. In order to solve the problem of losing some useful fault feature information due to classification processing, during the generation of the dimensionless index immune detector, such as reduction and clustering, we propose an integrated diagnosis method using each dimensionless index immune detector. Simulation results show that this method has high diagnostic accuracy

Vibration Sensor Based Intelligent Fault Diagnosis System for Large Machine Unit in Petrochemical Industries

Fault diagnosis is an area which is gaining increasing importance in rotating machinery. Along with the continuous advance of science and technology, the structures of rotating machinery become increasingly of larger scale and higher speed and more complicated, which result in higher probability of various failure in practice. In case one of the most critical components of machinery or equipment breaks down, it cannot only cause enormous economic loss, but also easily cause the loss of many people's lives. It is important to enable reliable, safe, and efficient operation of large-scale and critical rotating machinery, which requires us to achieve accurate and fast diagnosis of fault which has occurred. Aiming at dynamic real-time vibration monitoring and vibration signal analysis for large machine unit in petrochemical industry, which cannot realize real-time, online, and fast fault diagnosis, an intelligent fault diagnosis system using artificial immune algorithm and dimensionless parameters is developed in this paper, innovated with a focus on reliability, remote monitoring, and practicality and applied to the third catalytic flue gas turbine in a petrochemical enterprise, with good effects

A Dimensionless Immune Intelligent Fault Diagnosis System for Rotating Machinery

Aiming at the shortcomings of the traditional frequency domain analysis method, such as failure to find early faults, the misjudgement and omission of fault types, and failure to diagnose complex faults, a new approach is developed, which is different from the existing technical route in the field of fault diagnosis, by closely following real-time online, intelligent and accurate requirements in the field of monitoring and fault diagnosis of large rotating machinery. Combining immune mechanism, dimensionless index, support vector machine and other artificial intelligence technologies, linked with the particularity of fault diagnosis problems, a fault diagnosis classification algorithm based on memory sequence is proposed, and an intelligent fault diagnosis system based on a dimensionless immune detector and support vector machine was developed. Finally, the system was applied to a compressor unit in a petrochemical enterprise and good results were achieved

Autonomous Collision-Free Navigation of Microvehicles in Complex and Dynamically Changing Environments

Self-propelled micro- and nanoscale robots represent a rapidly emerging and fascinating robotics research area. However, designing autonomous and adaptive control systems for operating micro/nanorobotics in complex and dynamically changing environments, which is a highly demanding feature, is still an unmet challenge. Here we describe a smart microvehicle for precise autonomous navigation in complicated environments and traffic scenarios. The fully autonomous navigation system of the smart microvehicle is composed of a microscope-coupled CCD camera, an artificial intelligence planner, and a magnetic field generator. The microscope-coupled CCD camera provides real-time localization of the chemically powered Janus microsphere vehicle and environmental detection for path planning to generate optimal collision-free routes, while the moving direction of the microrobot toward a reference position is determined by the external electromagnetic torque. Real-time object detection offers adaptive path planning in response to dynamically changing environments. We demonstrate that the autonomous navigation system can guide the vehicle movement in complex patterns, in the presence of dynamically changing obstacles, and in complex biological environments. Such a navigation system for micro/nanoscale vehicles, relying on vision-based close-loop control and path planning, is highly promising for their autonomous operation in complex dynamic settings and unpredictable scenarios expected in a variety of realistic nanoscale scenarios