Intelligent Optimized Diagnosis for Hydropower Units Based on CEEMDAN Combined with RCMFDE and ISMA-CNN-GRU-Attention

This study suggests a hybrid approach that combines improved feature selection and intelligent diagnosis to increase the operational safety and intelligent diagnosis capabilities of hydropower units. In order to handle the vibration data, complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition with adaptive noise (CEEMDAN) is used initially. A novel comprehensive index is constructed by combining the Pearson correlation coefficient, mutual information (MI), and Kullback–Leibler divergence (KLD) to select intrinsic mode functions (IMFs). Next, feature extraction is performed on the selected IMFs using Refined Composite Multiscale Fluctuation Dispersion Entropy (RCMFDE). Then, time and frequency domain features are screened by calculating dispersion and combined with IMF features to build a hybrid feature vector. The vector is then fed into a CNN-GRU-Attention model for intelligent diagnosis. The improved slime mold algorithm (ISMA) is employed for the first time to optimize the hyperparameters of the CNN-GRU-Attention model. The experimental results show that the classification accuracy reaches 96.79% for raw signals and 93.33% for noisy signals, significantly outperforming traditional methods. This study incorporates entropy-based feature extraction, combines hyperparameter optimization with the classification model, and addresses the limitations of single feature selection methods for non-stationary and nonlinear signals. The proposed approach provides an excellent solution for intelligent optimized diagnosis of hydropower units.