Prognostic for hydraulic pump based upon DCT-composite spectrum and the modified echo state network

Prognostic is a key step of the condition-based maintenance (CBM). In order to improve the predicting performance, a novel method for prognostic for the hydraulic pump is proposed in this paper. Based on the improvement of the traditional composite spectrum, the DCT-composite spectrum (DCS) fusion algorithm is initially presented to make fusion of multi-channel vibration signals. The DCS composite spectrum entropy is extracted as the feature. Furthermore, the modified echo state networks (ESN) model is established for prognostic using the extracted feature. The reservoir is updated and the elements of the neighboring matrix are redefined for improving predicting accuracy. Analysis of the application in the hydraulic pump degradation experiment demonstrates that the proposed algorithm is feasible and is meaningful for CBM.