Electronic Systems Diagnosis Fault in Gasoline Engines Based on Multi-Information Fusion

The rapid development of electronic techniques in automobile has led to an increase of potential safety hazards, thus, a strong on-board diagnostic (OBD) system is desperately needed. To solve the problem of OBD insensitivity to manufacture errors or aging faults, the paper proposes a novel multi information fusion method. The diagnostic model is composed of a data fusion layer, feature fusion layer, and decision fusion layer. They are based on the back propagation (BP) neural network, support vector machine (SVM), and evidence theory, respectively. Algorithms are mainly focused on the reliability allocation of diagnostic results, which come from the data fusion layer and feature fusion layer. A fault simulator system was developed to simulate bias and drift faults of the intake pressure sensor. The real vehicle experiment was carried out to acquire data that are used to verify the availability of the method. Diagnostic results show that the multi-information fusion method improves diagnostic accuracy and reliability effectively. The study will be a promising approach for the diagnosis bias and drift fault of sensors in electronic control systems.