Graph Convolutional Network-Based Method for Fault Diagnosis Using a Hybrid of Measurement and Prior Knowledge

Deep-neural network-based fault diagnosis methods have been widely used according to the state of the art. However, a few of them consider the prior knowledge of the system of interest, which is beneficial for fault diagnosis. To this end, a new fault diagnosis method based on the graph convolutional network (GCN) using a hybrid of the available measurement and the prior knowledge is proposed. Specifically, this method first uses the structural analysis (SA) method to prediagnose the fault and then converts the prediagnosis results into the association graph. Then, the graph and measurements are sent into the GCN model, in which a weight coefficient is introduced to adjust the influence of measurements and the prior knowledge. In this method, the graph structure of GCN is used as a joint point to connect SA based on the model and GCN based on data. In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, an experiment is carried out. The results show that the proposed method, which combines the advantages of both SA and GCN, has better diagnosis results than the existing methods based on common evaluation indicators.