Moving Window Differential Evolution Independent Component Analysis-Based Operational Modal Analysis for Slow Linear Time-Varying Structures

Zong, Yongshuo; Chen, Jinling; Tao, Siyi; Wang, Cheng; Xiahou, Jianbing

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Moving Window Differential Evolution Independent Component Analysis-Based Operational Modal Analysis for Slow Linear Time-Varying Structures

Yongshuo Zong,^1,2Jinling Chen,¹Siyi Tao,¹Cheng Wang,³and Jianbing Xiahou¹

Academic Editor: Chenxi Huang

Received20 Apr 2020

Revised08 Oct 2020

Accepted19 Oct 2020

Published23 Nov 2020

Abstract

In order to identify time-varying transient modal parameters only from nonstationary vibration response measurement signals for slow linear time-varying (SLTV) structures which are weakly damped, a moving window differential evolution (DE) independent component analysis- (ICA-) based operational modal analysis (OMA) method is proposed in this paper. Firstly, in order to overcome the problems in traditional ICA-based OMA, such as easy to go into local optima and difficult-to-identify high-order modal parameters, we combine DE with ICA and propose a differential evolution independent component analysis- (DEICA-) based OMA method for linear time invariant (LTI) structures. Secondly, we combine the moving widow technique with DEICA and propose a moving window differential evolution independent component analysis- (MWDEICA-) based OMA method for SLTV structures. The MWDEICA-based OMA method has high global searching ability, robustness, and complexity of time and space. The modal identification results in a three-degree-of-freedom structure with slow time-varying mass show that this MWDEICA-based OMA method can identify transient time-varying modal parameters effectively only from nonstationary vibration response measurement signals and has better performances than moving window traditional ICA-based OMA.

1. Introduction

It is hoped that the engineering structure will have a high degree of self-adaptive or self-control ability, and it can automatically change its shape and performance to adapt to changes in environmental disturbances and new usage requirements as the environment or use functions change. Operational Modal Analysis (OMA) can estimate modal parameters without input data, which is not easy to obtain in large-scale engineering structures [1]. The modal parameters of a linear time-varying structure can reflect the overall dynamics of the structure [2].

Blind Source Separation (BSS) is a technique that recovers source signals from mixed signals without prior knowledge [3]. To cite a few, independent component analysis (ICA) [4, 5], second-order blind identification (SOBI) [6], complexity pursuit (CP) [7, 8], and sparse component analysis (SCA) [9] are typical BSS methods. The ICA method requires that the source signals be independent of each other and the number of sensors is not less than the number of source signals [10]. Kerschen [11] is the first to recognize the mapping between the modal shapes and the columns of the mixing matrix in BSS and, then, apply the ICA method to OMA. Some methods have been proposed to improve the ICA’s restrictions [12, 13]. However, because its optimization method is easy to go into local optima, traditional ICA-based OMA has low robustness, and it is difficult to identify high-order modal parameters using that [14]. Proposed by Strorn and Price [15, 16] firstly, differential evolution (DE) has much higher robustness and stronger global searching ability compared to the classical optimization method, such as the Gradient descent [17], stochastic gradient descent [18], and quasi-Newton iteration method [19].

However, because the mixing matrix of BSS is a constant matrix, BSS-based algorithms can only be used for time invariant structures. In reality, most of the structural parameters change with time and are time-varying structures. The main research on the time-vary structure is based on the frozen-in coefficient method which is considering the time-varying system as time invariant over a short time. Ramnath defines the slow linearly time-varying (SLTV) structures as the change of the system coefficient is much slower than the change of the system solution [20]. The three main approaches of SLTV structures are time-frequency analysis [21], forgetting factor [22], and moving window [23, 24]. However, the time-frequency analysis method is not suitable for online identification. The performance of forgetting factor methods is closely related to prior knowledge, which is very troublesome.

Based on the moving window [24] and independent component analysis [15], this paper presents a moving window differential evolution independent component analysis- (MWDEICA-) based OMA method for weakly damped SLTV structures.

The primary contributions of this paper can be summarized as follows:(1)In this paper, we propose a new DEICA-based OMA method to identify modal parameters only from stationary random response signals for LTI structures. Using DE algorithm to replace the traditional linear regression optimization algorithm to search the separation matrix, the DEICA-based OMA method has high global searching ability, robustness, and complexity of time and space. Compared with the traditional ICA method based on gradient optimization algorithm, OMA based on DEICA can identify higher-order modal parameters and has high recognition accuracy.(2)A sliding window algorithm based on differential evolution independent analysis of sliding window is proposed by combining sliding window with the DEICA method. The instantaneous modal natural frequency and mode shape of the linear time-varying structure are identified by using the linear tracking characteristics of sliding window. This method can effectively identify the transient time-varying modal parameters only from the nonstationary random response measurement signals, which is better than the traditional moving window method. The modal identification method has better performance.(3)We design a three-degree-of-freedom structure with slowly time-varying mass simulation to verify the validity and recognition accuracy of the MWDEICA-based OMA algorithm.

The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. In section 2, we describe MWDEICA in detail. The simulation verification is demonstrated in section 3. Finally, we conclude this paper in section 4.

2. Theoretical Inference of Algorithm

2.1. Differential Evolution Independent Component Analysis-Based OMA for the LTI Structure

The gradient-based optimization algorithm used by the traditional ICA is easy to fall into the local optimum. Therefore, there are problems such as low robustness and inability to recognize high-order modes when performing modal analysis on a continuum structure. Differential evolution algorithm has the ability to solve global optimization problems. The DEICA-based OMA method uses DE as an optimization algorithm which replaces the traditional linear regression method, and the core is to optimize the separation matrix . Therefore, DEICA-based OMA can identify high-order modes and has higher precision. The specific steps are as follows:(1)The number of modes m to be extracted, the number of structural finite element nodes N, the number of response data collection points T, and the response matrix of the structure are determined, and then, . and .(2)The steps of the differential evolution algorithm are adjusted. Since needs to be extracted one by one, each individual in the population is a vector, which is stored in the population matrix P. and , (3) is zero-centered by and starts loop. The kurtosis is used as a function, which is . Each offspring of results is also zero-centered. Convergence condition of the algorithm: the maximum number of iterations (4000 times) is exceeded or . The optimal solution is , and let .(4); return to step (2) until .

The flow diagram is shown in Figure 1.

2.2. Nonstationary Response Signals Decomposition in the Modal Coordinate and MWDEICA-Based OMA for SLTV

Based on the “time-freezing” theory [24], the frozen-in coefficient method, the “short time invariant,” and “quasistationary” assumptions, the nonstationary random response signals of the SLTV structures can be approximated as the stationary random response time series of LTI structures in short time interval. Figure 2 shows the length selection of moving window.

The choice of moving window length is fixed (the length is ), and the displacement responses can be decomposed by the modal expansion:where is the modal shapes matrix and is the modal coordinate response matrix. When the order of modal natural frequencies is not equal, the modal coordinate response vectors are independent of each other.

From equation (1), we can see that and represent, respectively, the LTV structure’s statistical average modal shapes and modal response over the window time . When time reaches , the predicted modal shape vector approximates to . Similarly, after using the single-degree-of-freedom (DOF) technique, the nature frequency of order at time can also be replaced by .

In view of equation (1), there is a one-to-one relationship between the modal response matrix of weakly damped structures and the linear transformational matrix in MWICA and a one-to-one mapping between the independent components of MWICA and the modal response matrix in equation (1). Through ICA decomposition, the uniqueness, certainty, and existence of the MWDEICA-based OMA method can be proved and shown in Figure 3.

2.3. Theoretical Analysis and Comparison between Traditional ICA and DEICA

As an optimization solution method, DE has much higher robustness and stronger global searching ability compared to the classical optimization method such as gradient descent, random gradient descent, and Newton iteration. Table 1 shows the characteristics of ICA and DEICA.

2.4. Application Scopes of the Proposed Method

The application scope of the OMA method based on moving window and DEICA is as follows:(1)The system should be a slow linear time-varying (SLTV) structure which is weakly damped.(2)Because of the limitation of blind source separation and independent component analysis, the number of vibration response sensors should be greater than or equal to the identification order of identifiable operational modal parameters.(3)Because of the limitation of sampling theorem, the sampling frequency of the vibration response signal should be greater than or equal to 2 times of the natural frequency of the identifiable modal natural frequency.(4)Every order of modal shape is with different amplitude. In case of the ICA method, the energy of separation matrix is not unique, and independent component also loses amplitude information. Unlike the principal component analysis method [25], the ICA method cannot get the contribution ratio information of each modal. Modal shape is a relative quantity rather than an absolute value. So, in order to compare the modal shape with the real modal shape, the separation matrix and modal shape identified by the ICA method should be normalized.(5)The order of modal parameter identified by ICA is uncertain. The modal identified by the ICA method is not in accordance with the order from small to large. In fact, the first separated output source and vector are the ones whose independence is the strongest rather than the first-order modal parameter. Therefore, in order to compare the natural frequencies with the real natural frequencies, the modal parameters identified by ICA need to be reordered by the modal frequencies.

3. Simulation Identification

3.1. Simulation Dataset of a Three-Degree-of-Freedom Structure with Slow Time-Varying Mass

To confirm MWICA’s availability and identification accuracy, we have designed a simulation of an LTV three-DOF spring oscillator system in MATLAB/Simulink. This model is shown in Figure 4. The initial conditions for the three modal displacements and velocities are zero. The stiffness matrix is set to , , and , and the damping matrix is set to , , and . The external force is white noise excitation with zero mean and unit variance. The mass matrix is set to and , and is a time-varying parameter as follows:

This kinetic equation becomes

In the Simulink model, we use the Runge–Kutta algorithm to obtain responses of 40 Hz sampling frequency and 2000 s recorded time [23]. In the time domain, 2.0% level Gauss measurement noise disturbances are added to displacement response signals.

3.2. Simulation Parameters Setting

According to the third theoretical frequency 12.2951 Hz at time1987.225 s in Table 2, the sampling frequency is set to 40 Hz in simulation of the SLTV structure. The window length is set to in this simulation, and then, the frequency resolution of FFT .

This objective function of ICA algorithm in this paper is the measurement of maximization non-Gaussian (kurtosis). The optimized method of class ICA algorithm is the quasi-Newton iteration method. The ICA method is used multiple times simultaneously, and the maximum iterations time is 4000. The modal parameters can be identified most of the time in the case of 60 runs.

The parameter setting of DE: the individual number is 80; maximum iterations time is 4000; and proportionality factor and cross probability are random transformation each loop repeats.

3.3. Modal Assurance Criterion

To determine the accuracy of the modal shapes, the modal assurance criterion (MAC) is introduced to verify the operational modal identification results. The MAC is given by [26]where is the identified modal shape, is the theoretical modal shape, and and are the transpositions of and , respectively. The MAC values range between 0 (no coincidence) and 1 (complete coincidence). However, MAC only reveals information about the direction and shape of the modal results and does not contain any information about the modal amplitudes. The MAC value is always 1 if the two vectors are proportional.

3.4. Transient Operational Modal Parameters Identification Results

The two ICA algorithms were repeated 60 times, respectively. For the modal natural frequency, Figure 5 shows the theoretical transient natural frequencies and the identified natural frequencies by class MWICA and MWDEICA for the SLTV structure.

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Figure 5 shows that certain modal parameters are not identified by class MWICA and MWDEICA at any time. In MWICA, the percentage of modal parameters of unidentified windows is more than 0.2% in the average of 60 trials.

We choose two moments t = 50.25 s and t = 1350.00 s to compare the theoretical modal shapes with the identified modal shapes. The recognition value of the frequency is similar in each simulation, while the modal shape recognition result fluctuates. We select the best value in 60 times.

3.5. Results Analysis

(1)Figures 5 and 6 and Tables 3 and 4 show that using only nonstationary random response signals, the MWICA-based and MWDEICA-based OMA method can well identify the transient natural frequency and modal shape of the SLTV structure.(2)Figures 5, and 6 show that, in the case of adding 2.0% level Gauss measurement noise disturbances to displacement response signals, compared with the MWDEICA-based OMA method, the MVDEICA method can identify more modal parameters of windows, and the class MWICA-based OMA method has low robustness and it is difficult to identify modal parameters at some moment because its optimization method is easy to go into local optima [16]. For MWDEICA-based OMA, the recognition results are unstable.(3)Table 5 shows that the MWDEICA-based OMA method has much higher time and space requirements than the MWICA-based OMA method.

4. Conclusions

In order to solve the problem that the traditional ICA method is easy to fall into local optimum and difficult to identify high-order modal parameters, combining moving window technology and differential evolution independent component analysis, this paper proposes a transient operational modal parameters identification method only from nonstationary vibration response measurement signal s for slow linear time-varying structures which is weakly damped. Theoretical comparison and simulation identification results show that MWDEICA-based OMA can effectively identify time-varying modal parameters, while the parameters of some sample points are not recognized in MWICA.

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Due to moving window technology and differential evolution algorithm, we are still unable to identify modal parameters in some time points. How to reduce the complexity of the algorithm and use MVDEICA to identify higher-order modals is the future work. It is also the future work to solve the problem and experimentally verify on more complex three-dimensional engineering structures.

Data Availability

The data used to support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon request.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Acknowledgments

This work was financially supported by CERNET Innovation Project (grant no. NGII20160410).

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