Real-Time Fault Diagnosis of Mooring Chain Jack Hydraulic System Based on Multi-Scale Feature Fusion Under Diverse Operating Conditions

The condition monitoring of mooring equipment is an important engineering reliability issue during the operation of a floating production storage and offloading unit (FPSO). The chain jack (CJ) is the key equipment for powering the mooring chain in a spread mooring system. Under complex and dynamic...

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Main Authors: Yujia Liu, Wenhua Li, Haoran Ye, Shanying Lin, Lei Hong
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Published: MDPI AG 2025-04-01
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description The condition monitoring of mooring equipment is an important engineering reliability issue during the operation of a floating production storage and offloading unit (FPSO). The chain jack (CJ) is the key equipment for powering the mooring chain in a spread mooring system. Under complex and dynamic marine operating conditions, different severity faults in the CJ hydraulic system display distinct time-scale characteristics. Hence, this paper proposes a real-time fault diagnosis method of the CJ hydraulic system based on multi-scale feature fusion. Firstly, the model incorporates a convolutional neural network (CNN) layer to extract localized spatial features from multivariate time-series data, effectively identifying fault patterns over the associated short intervals. Subsequently, the bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) layer is introduced to construct a dynamic temporal model to comprehensively capture the evolution of the fault severity. Finally, a multi-scale global attention mechanism (GAM) emphasizes persistent fault behaviors across time scales, dynamically prioritizing relevant features to improve diagnostic accuracy and model interpretability. The study results indicate that the proposed model’s accuracy improves by 7.36% over the CNN-GAM for 11 failure modes, up to 99.34%. This study contributes to the safe operation of an FPSO by guiding monitoring CJ operations under different load conditions.
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spelling doaj-art-a7615b3df9df4bb1b53c0b66e49358b72025-08-20T03:13:55ZengMDPI AGJournal of Marine Science and Engineering2077-13122025-04-0113478310.3390/jmse13040783Real-Time Fault Diagnosis of Mooring Chain Jack Hydraulic System Based on Multi-Scale Feature Fusion Under Diverse Operating ConditionsYujia Liu0Wenhua Li1Haoran Ye2Shanying Lin3Lei Hong4Marine Engineering College, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, ChinaMarine Engineering College, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, ChinaMarine Engineering College, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, ChinaMarine Engineering College, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, ChinaNantong Liwei Machinery Co., Ltd., Nantong 226522, ChinaThe condition monitoring of mooring equipment is an important engineering reliability issue during the operation of a floating production storage and offloading unit (FPSO). The chain jack (CJ) is the key equipment for powering the mooring chain in a spread mooring system. Under complex and dynamic marine operating conditions, different severity faults in the CJ hydraulic system display distinct time-scale characteristics. Hence, this paper proposes a real-time fault diagnosis method of the CJ hydraulic system based on multi-scale feature fusion. Firstly, the model incorporates a convolutional neural network (CNN) layer to extract localized spatial features from multivariate time-series data, effectively identifying fault patterns over the associated short intervals. Subsequently, the bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) layer is introduced to construct a dynamic temporal model to comprehensively capture the evolution of the fault severity. Finally, a multi-scale global attention mechanism (GAM) emphasizes persistent fault behaviors across time scales, dynamically prioritizing relevant features to improve diagnostic accuracy and model interpretability. The study results indicate that the proposed model’s accuracy improves by 7.36% over the CNN-GAM for 11 failure modes, up to 99.34%. This study contributes to the safe operation of an FPSO by guiding monitoring CJ operations under different load conditions.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/13/4/783floating production storage and offloadingchain jackhydraulic systemfault diagnosisbidirectional long short-term memoryglobal attention mechanism
spellingShingle Yujia Liu
Wenhua Li
Haoran Ye
Shanying Lin
Lei Hong
Real-Time Fault Diagnosis of Mooring Chain Jack Hydraulic System Based on Multi-Scale Feature Fusion Under Diverse Operating Conditions
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
floating production storage and offloading
chain jack
hydraulic system
fault diagnosis
bidirectional long short-term memory
global attention mechanism
title Real-Time Fault Diagnosis of Mooring Chain Jack Hydraulic System Based on Multi-Scale Feature Fusion Under Diverse Operating Conditions
title_full Real-Time Fault Diagnosis of Mooring Chain Jack Hydraulic System Based on Multi-Scale Feature Fusion Under Diverse Operating Conditions
title_fullStr Real-Time Fault Diagnosis of Mooring Chain Jack Hydraulic System Based on Multi-Scale Feature Fusion Under Diverse Operating Conditions
title_full_unstemmed Real-Time Fault Diagnosis of Mooring Chain Jack Hydraulic System Based on Multi-Scale Feature Fusion Under Diverse Operating Conditions
title_short Real-Time Fault Diagnosis of Mooring Chain Jack Hydraulic System Based on Multi-Scale Feature Fusion Under Diverse Operating Conditions
title_sort real time fault diagnosis of mooring chain jack hydraulic system based on multi scale feature fusion under diverse operating conditions
topic floating production storage and offloading
chain jack
hydraulic system
fault diagnosis
bidirectional long short-term memory
global attention mechanism
url https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/13/4/783
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