Study on acoustic fault diagnosis of underwater vehicle auxiliary machineries

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The concept of underwater vehicle auxiliary machineries acoustic fault was proposed. The underwater vehicle auxiliary machineries acoustic fault diagnosis in concealed conditions was studied. Firstly, the accelerometers were used to measure the vehicle shell surface vibration, and the vehicle radiation noise was calculated using a rapid engineering estimation method. Then, the vibration energy of each frequency band in the radiation noise analysis frequency was extracted as feature vector. Finally, an improved Fuzzy Support Vector Machine (FSVM) method was used to identify the classification, and acoustic fault diagnoses of auxiliary machineries for underwater vehicle was given. The method of acoustic fault diagnosis proved a theoretical basis for the use of underwater vehicle auxiliary machineries under the concealment.

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Study on acoustic fault diagnosis of underwater vehicle
auxiliary machineries
Zhiyin Tang
1
, Hailong Zou
2
, Huijie Shen
3
, Shasha Wu
4
1, 2, 3
College of Power Engineering, Naval University of Engineering, Wuhan, Hubei, 430033, China
4
Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, Hubei, 430073, China
3
Corresponding author
E-mail:
1
sydneyocean@126.com,
2
helon_happy@126.com,
3
shj588@163.com,
4
shasha_wu@hotmail.com
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Abstract. The concept of underwater vehicle auxiliary machineries acoustic fault was proposed.
The underwater vehicle auxiliary machineries acoustic fault diagnosis in concealed conditions was
studied. Firstly, the accelerometers were used to measure the vehicle shell surface vibration, and
the vehicle radiation noise was calculated using a rapid engineering estimation method. Then, the
vibration energy of each frequency band in the radiation noise analysis frequency was extracted
as feature vector. Finally, an improved Fuzzy Support Vector Machine (FSVM) method was used
to identify the classification, and acoustic fault diagnoses of auxiliary machineries for underwater
vehicle was given. The method of acoustic fault diagnosis proved a theoretical basis for the use of
underwater vehicle auxiliary machineries under the concealment.
Keywords: underwater vehicle auxiliary machineries, acoustic fault diagnosis, FSVM.
1. Introduction
The stealth property of underwater vehicle in sea battlefield is the most basic technical
performance, where acoustic stealth performance is the most important factor in determining its
stealth. The s acoustic stealth performance of underwater vehicle has always been considered to
be the most important issue [1]-[4].
The radiation noise of underwater vehicle can be divided into three kinds: machineries noise,
propeller noise, hydrodynamic noise [5]. When the underwater vehicle is sailing, the propeller
noise and the hydrodynamic noise occupy the main part. But when it is in concealed conditions
such as “position for ambush”, “regional hunting” and so on, underwater vehicle should be in
hover condition. And in these time, the host and propeller are both stopped. The propeller noise
and the hydrodynamic noise disappear, and the radiation noise of the vehicle is only the
mechanical noise. At these times, the main noise sources are auxiliary machineries, which mainly
includes various types of pumps, air conditioners, refrigeration, hydraulic devices and so on. Now
if the radiation noise is abnormal due to the incorrect use of auxiliary machineries, the acoustic
stealth performance of the vehicle is changed, and its security is destroyed. This is called the
acoustic fault of auxiliary machineries.
Define “underwater vehicle auxiliary machineries acoustic fault” as: in sea battlefield, when
underwater vehicle auxiliary machineries vibration or noise changes due to improper use or state
change, resulting in changing vehicle stealth properties. It should be noted that the auxiliary
mechanical acoustic fault does not mean that the auxiliary machineries has a mechanical fault and
needs to be repaired.
“Underwater auxiliary mechanical acoustic fault diagnosis” is: when the underwater vehicle
auxiliary machineries are mainly used, the current acoustic stealth state elements are perceived
and extracted, and they map them into existing state spaces, get some kind the matching of known
states, and determines its acoustic fault state. The state here can be quantized indicators (like 60
points, 90 points, etc.), or may be a hierarchical evaluation (like no acoustic fault, slight acoustic
fault, severe acoustic fault, etc.).
It should be noted that underwater vehicle auxiliary mechanical acoustic fault diagnosis is

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mainly carried out under hover condition or slow sailing. Because in these time vehicle has higher
requirements for stealth, and machineries noise is the main part of radiation noise. When the
vehicle is at a high speed, the maneuverability requirement is higher than stealth. In these time,
the propeller noise and hydrodynamic noise are much louder than machineries noise, so the
auxiliary mechanical acoustic fault diagnosis is not necessary.
2. Rapid calculation method of underwater vehicle radiation noise in concealed conditions
The first step in the diagnosis is to quickly calculate the radiation noise, which is made by
auxiliary machineries, by using the vibration measured by the sensors on the vehicle. An
engineering estimation method of rapid calculating underwater vehicle radiation noise in
concealed conditions has been proposed [6], [7]. The radiation noise is [7]:
𝑃=𝜌𝑐⟨𝑉
⟩
2𝑅

𝜀𝑆
𝜋=𝜌𝑐⟨𝜁

⟩
2𝜔𝑅

𝜀𝑆
𝜋, (1)
where, 𝑃 is the sound pressure of radiation noise at a distance of 𝑅 from the vehicle; 𝜌, 𝑐 are the
density and sound speed of water; ⟨𝑉
⟩ is the average vibration speed of the vehicle surface; ⟨𝜁⟩ is
the average vibration acceleration of the vehicle surface; 𝑆 is the acoustic radiation surface area
of the vehicle; 𝜀 is the radiation efficiency of the vehicle:
10lg𝜀=
󰇱
40󰇛lg
𝑓
−lg
𝑓
󰇜,
𝑓
≤
𝑓
,
20󰇛1+𝐾󰇜lg
𝑓
+20
󰇛1−𝐾󰇜lg
𝑓
−40lg
𝑓
,
𝑓
<
𝑓
<
𝑓
,
0,
𝑓
≥
𝑓
,
(2)
where, 𝑓 is a calculation frequency; 𝐾=
/󰇛󰇜
󰇛󰇜; 𝑓 is the first order of vibration modal
frequency of the cylindrical vehicle:
𝑓
=
⎩
⎪
⎨
⎪
⎧
2.66
𝑓
𝛽, 𝑑𝑙≥0.6 ℎ
𝑑,
𝜋𝑑
𝑓

2𝑙

𝜋𝑑
2𝑙+2𝛽, 𝑑𝑙<0.6ℎ
𝑑.
(3)
Critical frequency 𝑓 is:
𝑓
=𝑐
2𝜋ℎ

12𝜌󰇛1−𝜎󰇜
𝐸=2
√
3𝑅
ℎ𝑐
𝑐
𝑓
. (4)
In the real underwater vehicle radiation noise calculation, lots of accelerometers are arranged
on the surface of the vehicle. The sound pressure of each cabin is considered independent. The
length of 𝑖-th cabin is 𝑙, and the equivalent radius is 𝑟. It can be obtained from Eqs. (1-4) that the
total sound pressure, which is made by the underwater vehicle multi-cabin vibration, at a distance
of 𝑅 from the vehicle is 𝑃∑=∑
 

.
Translates to the total sound pressure at a distance of 1m from the vehicle is:

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𝑃∑=𝜌𝑐⟨𝜁

⟩
𝜔𝜀𝑟𝑙
2

. (5)
If the energy of radiation noise is mostly concentrated from 𝑓 to 𝑓 frequency range, each
1/3Oct sound pressure levels of the frequency range can be arranged to the feature vectors.
Using this underwater vehicle radiation feature vectors, the pattern recognition can be
performed by the fuzzy support vector machine (FSVM) to make the auxiliary mechanical
acoustic fault diagnosis.
3. FSVM for diagnosis of two modes
If the auxiliary machine acoustic fault category is simple to be two: occurring and not
occurring, the acoustic fault diagnosis problem is an identification issue of two model classes.
Under the conditions of complete linearity, ordinary linear support vector machines (SVM) are
suitable for this problem [8]. However, in actual underwater vehicle auxiliary machineries
acoustic fault diagnosis, the sample is almost not completely linear, so the nonlinear SVM must
be used. And sometimes, not all training samples are valid. Some the validity of samples may be
weakened or even be corrupted in actual underwater vehicle auxiliary machineries acoustic fault
diagnosis. For such problems, the FSVM method has been proposed [9], [10].
3.1. Linear FSVM for diagnosis of two patterns
In order to solve non-separable data, a set of new non-negative scalar variables𝜉
󰇛𝑖=1,2,⋯,𝑙󰇜 are introduced to the definition of the separation super plane:
𝑦󰇛𝑤𝑥+𝑏󰇜≥1−𝜉, 𝑖=1,2,…,𝑙, (6)
where, 𝜉 is a relaxation variable, which measures the data deviation degree of the ideal condition
of separable pattern. Support vector is the special data that exactly satisfied Eq. (6). For linear
classification problems, the problem of searching for the optimal classification super plane can be
transform to solve the Eq. (7):
⎩
⎪
⎨
⎪
⎧
minimize 1
2‖𝑤‖+𝐶𝑠𝜉

 ,
subject to 𝑦󰇛𝑤𝑥+𝑏󰇜≥1−𝜉, 𝑖=1,2,⋯𝑙,
𝜉

≥0, 𝑖=1,2,⋯𝑙.
(7)
That is, a fault classification support vector with a smaller degree of fuzzy membership is
considered less important in the classification problem. The Lagrange multiplier method can be
used to solve this optimization problem. Constructing the Lagrange function as:
𝐿󰇛𝑤,𝑏,𝜉,𝛼,𝛽󰇜=1
2‖𝑤‖+𝐶𝑠𝜉


 −𝛼󰇛𝑦󰇛𝑤𝑥+𝑏󰇜−1+𝜉󰇜


 −𝛽𝜉


 . (8)
The solution to the optimization problem is determined by the saddle points of the Lagrange
function. When the cost function 
‖𝑤‖+𝐶∑𝑠𝜉
 takes the extreme value, by
Karush-Kuhn-Thcker condition. The dual programming of the quadratic programming Eq. (7) can
be converted to solving for the minimum as:

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⎩
⎪
⎪
⎨
⎪
⎪
⎧
minimize
1
2𝑦𝑦𝛼𝛼𝑥𝑥−𝛼

 ,




subject to 𝑦𝛼

 =0,
0≤𝛼

≤𝑠

𝐶, 𝑖=1,2,⋯𝑙.
(9)
The optimal solution of 𝑤 and 𝑏 are:
𝑤∗=𝛼 
∗𝑦𝑥


 , (10)
𝑏∗=𝑦−𝑦𝛼𝑥𝑥


 , 𝑖∈󰇝𝑖|0<𝛼∗<𝑠𝐶|󰇞. (11)
The fuzzy optimal classification function is:
𝑔󰇛𝑥󰇜=𝑠𝑔𝑛󰇝
𝑓
󰇛𝑥󰇜󰇞=𝑠𝑔𝑛󰇝󰇛𝑤∗𝑥󰇜+𝑏∗󰇞, 𝑥∈𝑅. (12)
3.2. Nonlinear FSVM for diagnosis of two patterns
For nonlinear classification issues, it is usually used by nonlinear mapping from low
dimensional spaces to high dimension 𝜑󰇛⋅󰇜:𝑅→𝑅, and transforms nonlinear problems in low
dimensional spaces into linear problems in high dimensional spaces. Inner product operation in
high dimensional space is defined as 𝐾𝑥,𝑥=𝜑󰇛𝑥󰇜𝜑𝑥, and it is called kernel function
[11]. So the issues of seeking the optimal classification hyperplane can be transformed to solving
the quadratic programming. The solution process is the same as in Section 2.1, and the following
dual planning can be obtained:
⎩
⎪
⎪
⎨
⎪
⎪
⎧
minimize
1
2𝑦𝑦𝛼𝛼𝐾𝑥,𝑥−𝛼

 ,




subject to 𝑦𝛼

 =0,
0≤𝛼

≤𝑠

𝐶, 𝑖=1,2,⋯𝑙.
(13)
Similarly, the optimal solution is 𝛼∗=󰇛𝛼∗,𝛼
∗,⋯,𝛼∗󰇜, and the fuzzy optimal classification
function is:
𝑔󰇛𝑥󰇜=𝑠𝑔𝑛󰇝
𝑓
󰇛𝑥󰇜󰇞=𝑠𝑔𝑛
󰇱
𝛼 
∗𝑦𝐾

 𝑥,𝑥+𝑏∗
󰇲
, 𝑥∈𝑅. (14)
where 𝑏∗=𝑦−∑𝑦𝛼𝐾𝑥,𝑥
 , 𝑖∈󰇝𝑖|0<𝛼∗<𝑠𝐶|󰇞.
Polynomial function, radial basis function, sigmoid function are often used as kernel functions.
To a specific problem, how to choose the optimal kernel function and the corresponding
parameters are a complex problem to FSVM. Although the choice of kernel functions can lead to
different performances, the choice of parameters is more important than the choice of kernel
functions. In many cases, the choice of the kernel function parameters is decisive to the result [11].

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4. FSVM for diagnosis of multi-patterns
In the actual underwater vehicle auxiliary machineries acoustic fault diagnosis, the acoustic
fault patterns are usually more than two. So underwater vehicle auxiliary machineries acoustic
fault diagnosis is a multi-pattern classification problem. For more than two patterns (𝑛>2), it
can be constructed as a combination of multiple two-pattern classification issues [12]-[13].
Using two patterns classification methods, 𝑛-pattern classifier can be constructed as follow:
1. Construct 𝑛 two-pattern classification rules, where the rule 𝑓󰇛𝑥󰇜, 𝑘=1,⋯,𝑛 separates the
training samples of the 𝑘-pattern from other training samples. (If the vector 𝑥 belongs to the
𝑘-pattern, 𝑔󰇛𝑥󰇜=sgn
󰇝𝑓󰇛𝑥󰇜󰇞=1; otherwise 𝑔󰇛𝑥󰇜=sgn
󰇝𝑓󰇛𝑥󰇜󰇞=−1).
2. If the patterns satisfy 𝑔󰇛𝑥󰇜=sgn
󰇝𝑓󰇛𝑥󰇜󰇞=1 are more than one, 𝑥 becomes the pattern
𝑚=argmax
󰇝𝑓󰇛𝑥󰇜,⋯𝑓󰇛𝑥󰇜󰇞 that is corresponding to the maximum value of the function
𝑓󰇛𝑥󰇜,𝑘=1,⋯,𝑛. If all the patterns satisfy 𝑔󰇛𝑥󰇜=sgn
󰇝𝑓󰇛𝑥󰇜󰇞=−1, 𝑥 becomes the pattern
𝑚=argmin
󰇝𝑓󰇛𝑥󰇜,⋯𝑓󰇛𝑥󰇜󰇞 that is corresponding to the minimum value of the function
𝑓󰇛𝑥󰇜,𝑘=1,⋯,𝑛.
5. Test verification
In order to verify the FSVM diagnosis method, underwater acoustic tests are performed using
a double-shell iron cylinder to simulate underwater vehicle under hover condition. The outer
diameter of the cylinder is 560 mm, the inner diameter is 400 mm, and the height is 600 mm.
Three exciters are mounted inside the housing to simulate the excitation of the auxiliary
mechanicals, and 15 accelerometers are arranged on the surface of the cylinder, as shown in Fig. 1.
A hydrophone suspended in the water is 1m from the cylinder, as shown in Fig. 2.
Fig. 1. Iron cylinder with covers and accelerometers,
F1, F2, F3 are the excitation
p
oints of exciters
Fig. 2. Underwater acoustic test
Without loss of generality, the auxiliary mechanical acoustic fault states can be classified into
three patterns for diagnosis, namely: safety, normal fault, critical fault. They correspond to three
conditions in the test: Condition (1) turn on No. 1 exciters, Condition (2) turn on No. 1 and 2
exciters, Condition (3) turn on all the three exciters.
To verify the correctness of the algorithm in Chapter 1, a random set of data is selected for
calculation in each condition. And calculation results are compared with the hydrophone
measurement, as shown in Fig. 3-5.
As Table 1 shows, for our test linear FSVM and polynomial kernel function FSVM gets high
accuracy in acoustic fault diagnosis. This is because the system is largely linear. However, the
actual underwater vehicle has so many different kinds of auxiliary machineries, and underwater
environment is so complicated, that the system cannot be considered as linear. So it is impossible
to predict which type of FSVM will give better diagnosis results.

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Fi
g
. 3. Com
p
arison in Condition
(
1
)
Fi
g
. 4. Com
p
arison in Condition
(
2
)
Fi
g
. 5. Com
p
arison in Condition
(
3
)
Fig. 6. Each band sound pressure in three conditions
Table 1. Comparison of different FSVM classification accuracy
Type of FSVM Diagnosis accuracy (%)
Linear FSVM 100
Pol
y
nomial Kernel Function FSVM 93.75
Radial Basis Kernel Function FSVM 33.3
Sigmoid Kernel Function FSVM 33.3
6. Conclusions
In the paper the concept of underwater vehicle auxiliary machineries acoustic fault has been
proposed, and the auxiliary machineries acoustic fault diagnosis in sea battlefield has been studied.
It should be noticed that: (1) for different underwater vehicle structures, the FSVM classifier needs
to be trained with historical data; (2) in actual underwater vehicle auxiliary machineries acoustic
fault diagnosis, the selection of FSVM classifier kernel function should be according to the
situation; (3) as the auxiliary machineries acoustic fault patterns increase, the amount of FSVM
calculation will increase rapidly, which increases the diagnosis time; (4) the noise prediction
accuracy of the underwater vehicle radiation noise engineering estimation algorithm needs to be
improved in individual frequency bands.
Acknowledgements
This research was funded by the Foundation of National Key Laboratory of Science and
Technology (Grant No. 6142217200505), the Independent Research Foundation of Naval
University of Engineering (Grant No. 20200290).

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