Research on fault prediction of marine diesel engine based on attention-LSTM

The marine diesel engine is an important guarantee for the safe operation of the ship. It is of great significance to predict the running trend of the diesel engine and infer whether the diesel engine is in an abnormal working state in advance to ensure the safe operation of the ship. In this paper, combining the feature extraction ability of the attention mechanism (Attention) and the time-series memory ability of the long short-term neural network (LSTM), a prediction model of the exhaust gas temperature of the marine diesel engine is constructed. Meanwhile, in order to improve the prediction accuracy of the model, the improved particle swarm algorithm is used to optimize the structural parameters of the model, and a model with higher prediction performance is obtained. Then, according to the residual value distribution between the predicted value and the actual value of the model, the process control method is used to set the fault threshold, and the experimental data of normal and abnormal conditions are used for verification. The results show that the proposed model can accurately predict developing failures and provide a new method for ship condition maintenance.