Graph Neural Network-Based Semi-Supervised Open-Set Fault Diagnosis for Marine Machinery Systems

TL;DR

This paper introduces a semi-supervised open-set fault diagnosis framework for marine machinery that can identify known faults and detect unknown ones, improving robustness in real-world scenarios.

Contribution

It proposes a novel semi-supervised open-set fault diagnosis framework that effectively detects unknown faults using a multi-layer fusion feature representation and pseudo-labeling.

Findings

Outperforms existing methods on maritime benchmark datasets

Accurately detects unknown fault types

Enhances fault diagnosis robustness in open-set conditions

Abstract

Recently, fault diagnosis methods for marine machinery systems based on deep learning models have attracted considerable attention in the shipping industry. Most existing studies assume fault classes are consistent and known between the training and test datasets, and these methods perform well under controlled environment. In practice, however, previously unseen or unknown fault types (i.e., out-of-distribution or open-set observations not present during training) can occur, causing such methods to fail and posing a significant challenge to their widespread industrial deployment. To address this challenge, this paper proposes a semi-supervised open-set fault diagnosis (SOFD) framework that enhances and extends the applicability of deep learning models in open-set fault diagnosis scenarios. The framework includes a reliability subset construction process, which uses a multi-layer fusion feature representation extracted by a supervised feature learning model to select an unlabeled test subset. The labeled training set and pseudo-labeled test subset are then fed into a semi-supervised diagnosis model to learn discriminative features for each class, enabling accurate classification of known faults and effective detection of unknown samples. Experimental results on a public maritime benchmark dataset demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed SOFD framework.