journal article·2025-06-11Open access

A Graph Isomorphic Network with Attention Mechanism for Intelligent Fault Diagnosis of Axial Piston Pump

Kai Li, Bofan Wu, Shiqi Xia, Xianshi Jia

Applied Sciences· Volume 15· Issue 12

Abstract

Axial piston pumps play a vital role in fluid power systems, which are widely employed in diverse fields such as aerospace, ocean engineering, and rail transit. It is essential to accurately diagnose faults in these pumps since their reliable operation hinges on it. A graph isomorphic network with a spatio-temporal attention mechanism (GIN-ST) is proposed in this paper for fault diagnosis of hydraulic axial piston pumps; GIN-AM addresses the problem of traditional intelligent fault diagnosis methods being limited to nonlinear mapping and transformation in Euclidean space. Initially, the weighted graphs are constructed from a univariate time series through K-nearest neighbor graph methods. Subsequently, a spatio-temporal attention-based module used to learn the graph representation of piston pump faults is presented, where a novel READOUT function and Transformer encoder provide spatial and temporal interpretability, respectively. Finally, the proposed (GIN-ST) model is compared against other intelligent fault diagnosis methods, and the superiority of the proposed method is proven.
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Research context

OpenAlex topics: Fault Detection and Control Systems · Advanced Data Processing Techniques · Oil and Gas Production Techniques

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Affiliations

School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Central South University, 932 Lushan South Road, YueLu District, Changsha 410083, China

State Key Laboratory of Precision Manufacturing for Extreme Service Performance, Central South University, Changsha 430074, China

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China · Project of State Key Laboratory of Precision Manufacturing for Extreme Service Performance

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