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Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica ›› 2023, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (S1): 727615-727615.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2022.27615

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Fault detection and classification of aerospace sensors using deep neural networks finetuned from VGG16

Zhongzhi LI, Jinyi MA, Jianliang AI, Yiqun DONG()   

  1. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics,Fudan University,Shanghai 200433,China
  • Received:2022-06-01 Revised:2022-06-15 Accepted:2022-06-22 Online:2023-06-25 Published:2022-06-24
  • Contact: Yiqun DONG E-mail:yiqundong@fudan.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    Shanghai Sailing Program(20YF1402500);Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai(22ZR1404500)

Abstract:

Following the research advances in machine vision, a concept defined as imagification-based intelligence has been proposed. A fault detection and classification method of fault detection and classification was developed using a deep neural network finetuned from VGG16, which originally was designed for image detection and classification problems. Firstly, a database corresponding to 4 aerospace vehicles and 5 flight conditions were constructed via both flight simulations and real-vehicle tests. Faults of aerospace sensors and inertial measurement unit are included in the database. Secondly, we proposed to stack the measurement data of aerospace sensors into a grayscale image, which was used to transfer the fault detection and classification problem into abnormal regions detection problem on the image. Thirdly, the size of the grayscale image was augmented to match the input size of VGG16, and the fault detection neural network was developed via finetuning the VGG16 directly. The experimental results on several aircraft show that the average test accuracy of the network reaches 97.6%. Following the explainability analysis methods in machine vision, Class Activation Mapping (CAM) results of different layers of the fault detection neural network were plotted, which solidifies the performance of the proposed neural network.

Key words: aerospace sensors, fault detection and classification, imagification-based intelligence, deep neural networks, explainability analysis

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