Automatic Fault Diagnosis of Internal Combustion Engine Based on Spectrogram and Artificial Neural Network

This paper presents a signal analysis technique for internal combustion (IC) engine fault diagnosis based on the spectrogram and artificial neural network (ANN). Condition monitoring and fault diagnosis of IC engine through acoustic signal analysis is an established technique for detecting early stages of component degradation. The location dependent characteristic fault frequencies make it possible to detect the presence of a fault and to diagnose on what part of the engine the fault is. The difficulty of localized fault detection lies in the fact that the energy of the signature of a faulty engine is spread across a wide frequency band and hence can be easily buried by noise. To solve this problem, the spectrogram for an integrated time frequency pattern extraction of the engine vibration is proposed. The method offers the advantage of good localization of the acoustic signal energy in the time frequency domain. Statistical parameters like, kurtosis, shape factor, crest factor, mean, median, variance etc. are used for feature extraction in time-frequency domain, and artificial neural network (ANN) was employed to identify the faults in IC engine. Experimental results show that the proposed method is very effective. Key–Words: Fault Diagnosis, Acoustic Analysis, Internal Combustion Engine,