Sensor Fault Diagnosis Based on SOFM Neural Network

Abstract

Traditional sensor fault diagnosis is mainly based on statistical classification methods. The discriminant functions in these methods are extremely complex, and typical samples of reference modes are not easy to get, therefore it is difficult to meet the actual requirements of a project. In view of the deficiencies of conventional sensor fault diagnosis technologies, a fault diagnosis method based on self-organizing feature map (SOFM) neural network is presented in this paper. And it is applied to the fault diagnosis of pipeline flow sensor in a dynamic system. The simulation results show that the fault diagnosis method based on SOFM neural network has a fast speed, high accuracy and strong generalization ability, which verifies the practicality and effectiveness of the proposed method.