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Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) work in a complex marine environment. Its system reliability and autonomous fault diagnosis are particularly important and can provide the basis for underwater vehicles to take corresponding security policy in a failure. Aiming at the characteristics of the underwater vehicle which has uncertain system and modeling difficulty, an improved Elman neural network is introduced which is applied to the underwater vehicle motion modeling. Through designing self-feedback connection with fixed gain in the unit connection as well as increasing the feedback of the output layer node, improved Elman network has faster convergence speed and generalization ability. This method for high-order nonlinear system has stronger identification ability. Firstly, the residual is calculated by comparing the output of the underwater vehicle model (estimation in the motion state) with the actual measured values. Secondly, characteristics of the residual are analyzed on the basis of fault judging criteria. Finally, actuator fault diagnosis of the autonomous underwater vehicle is carried out. The results of the simulation experiment show that the method is effective.
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Foundation item: Project(2012T50331) supported by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation; Project(2008AA092301-2) supported by the High-Tech Research and Development Program of China
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Sun, Ys., Li, Ym., Zhang, Gc. et al. Actuator fault diagnosis of autonomous underwater vehicle based on improved Elman neural network. J. Cent. South Univ. 23, 808–816 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11771-016-3127-8
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