Fault Diagnosis of Valve Train of Internal Combustion Engine Based on the Artificial Neural Network and Support Vector Machine

The theory of artificial neural network and support vector machine has been introduced. According to the characteristics of vibration signal for the valve mechanism, fault diagnosis has been proposed for abnormal valve clearance based on artificial neural network (ANN) and support vector machine (SVM). Two kinds of intelligent technology have been compared in fault identification by changing the number of training samples. The diagnosis has indicated that at small number of training samples SVM has high generalization ability, and at large number of training samples, ANN has exact recognition when it comes to diagnosing valve train.