Aeroengine Fault Diagnosis Using Optimized Elman Neural Network

A new Elman Neural Network (ENN) optimized by quantum‐behaved adaptive particle swarm optimization (QAPSO) is introduced in this paper. According to the root mean square error, QAPSO is used to select the best weights and thresholds of the ENN in training samples. The optimized neural network is applied to aeroengine fault diagnosis and is compared with other optimized ENN, original ENN, BP, and Support Vector Machine (SVM) methods. The results show that the QAPSO‐ENN is more accurate and reliable in the aeroengine fault diagnosis than the conventional neural network and other ENN methods; QAPSO‐ENN has great diagnostic ability in small samples.