Estimation of fuel spraying from diesel engine injector using multiresolution wavelet analysis of vibroacoustic signals

The paper presents the application of wavelet multiresolution analysis to injection diagnostics using vibro-acoustic signals. The vibroacoustic signals were acquired in a research bench for testing the Diesel engine injectors. This measurement of vibroacoustic signal is carried out using mems accelerometer mounted to a reactive cylinder with real injector placed centrally inside it. Estimation of fuel spraying parameters was done by comparison of recorded vibroacoustic signals of correctly working injector and injector with simulated malfunction resulting in incorrect injector stream. For each original signal the 6 multiresolution approximation components were taken into account and for each signal and all components some chosen parameters were calculated. Then the suitable simple classifier was designed to distinguish between correctly and incorrectly working injector. The research results presented in the paper proved that some signal parameters obtained for high frequency multiresolution components can be used as diagnostic parameters for fault detection in injector testing bench applications.