An Enhanced Data Visualization Method for Diesel Engine Malfunction Classification Using Multi-Sensor Signals

The various multi-sensor signal features from a diesel engine constitute a complex high-dimensional dataset. The non-linear dimensionality reduction method, t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE), provides an effective way to implement data visualization for complex high-dimensional dat...

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Main Authors: Yiqing Li, Yu Wang, Yanyang Zi, Mingquan Zhang
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-10-01
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/15/10/26675
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author Yiqing Li
Yu Wang
Yanyang Zi
Mingquan Zhang
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Yu Wang
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Mingquan Zhang
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description The various multi-sensor signal features from a diesel engine constitute a complex high-dimensional dataset. The non-linear dimensionality reduction method, t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE), provides an effective way to implement data visualization for complex high-dimensional data. However, irrelevant features can deteriorate the performance of data visualization, and thus, should be eliminated a priori. This paper proposes a feature subset score based t-SNE (FSS-t-SNE) data visualization method to deal with the high-dimensional data that are collected from multi-sensor signals. In this method, the optimal feature subset is constructed by a feature subset score criterion. Then the high-dimensional data are visualized in 2-dimension space. According to the UCI dataset test, FSS-t-SNE can effectively improve the classification accuracy. An experiment was performed with a large power marine diesel engine to validate the proposed method for diesel engine malfunction classification. Multi-sensor signals were collected by a cylinder vibration sensor and a cylinder pressure sensor. Compared with other conventional data visualization methods, the proposed method shows good visualization performance and high classification accuracy in multi-malfunction classification of a diesel engine.
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spelling doaj.art-2b0266d10d58416eb7dba92630cb56832022-12-22T04:23:45ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202015-10-011510266752669310.3390/s151026675s151026675An Enhanced Data Visualization Method for Diesel Engine Malfunction Classification Using Multi-Sensor SignalsYiqing Li0Yu Wang1Yanyang Zi2Mingquan Zhang3State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, No. 28 Xianning West Road, Xi’an 710049, ChinaState Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, No. 28 Xianning West Road, Xi’an 710049, ChinaState Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, No. 28 Xianning West Road, Xi’an 710049, ChinaState Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, No. 28 Xianning West Road, Xi’an 710049, ChinaThe various multi-sensor signal features from a diesel engine constitute a complex high-dimensional dataset. The non-linear dimensionality reduction method, t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE), provides an effective way to implement data visualization for complex high-dimensional data. However, irrelevant features can deteriorate the performance of data visualization, and thus, should be eliminated a priori. This paper proposes a feature subset score based t-SNE (FSS-t-SNE) data visualization method to deal with the high-dimensional data that are collected from multi-sensor signals. In this method, the optimal feature subset is constructed by a feature subset score criterion. Then the high-dimensional data are visualized in 2-dimension space. According to the UCI dataset test, FSS-t-SNE can effectively improve the classification accuracy. An experiment was performed with a large power marine diesel engine to validate the proposed method for diesel engine malfunction classification. Multi-sensor signals were collected by a cylinder vibration sensor and a cylinder pressure sensor. Compared with other conventional data visualization methods, the proposed method shows good visualization performance and high classification accuracy in multi-malfunction classification of a diesel engine.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/15/10/26675multi-sensor signalsdata visualizationfeature subset scorediesel enginemalfunction classification
spellingShingle Yiqing Li
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An Enhanced Data Visualization Method for Diesel Engine Malfunction Classification Using Multi-Sensor Signals
Sensors
multi-sensor signals
data visualization
feature subset score
diesel engine
malfunction classification
title An Enhanced Data Visualization Method for Diesel Engine Malfunction Classification Using Multi-Sensor Signals
title_full An Enhanced Data Visualization Method for Diesel Engine Malfunction Classification Using Multi-Sensor Signals
title_fullStr An Enhanced Data Visualization Method for Diesel Engine Malfunction Classification Using Multi-Sensor Signals
title_full_unstemmed An Enhanced Data Visualization Method for Diesel Engine Malfunction Classification Using Multi-Sensor Signals
title_short An Enhanced Data Visualization Method for Diesel Engine Malfunction Classification Using Multi-Sensor Signals
title_sort enhanced data visualization method for diesel engine malfunction classification using multi sensor signals
topic multi-sensor signals
data visualization
feature subset score
diesel engine
malfunction classification
url http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/15/10/26675
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