In 2022, PT KAI (Persero) experienced a rise in passenger and freight services,
leading to increased equipment failures due to longer operating hours. Maintenance
is crucial for railway point machines (RPM), which significantly impact train
safety. Currently, fault diagnosis is conducted manually due to the lack of a
condition monitoring instrument for RPM equipment, resulting in increased labor
expenses, delays, inefficiencies, and reduced accuracy.
This study proposed a vibration-based fault diagnosis application using deep
learning method. The study utilized ESP32 with ADXL345 accelerometer as a low-
cost vibration sensor and a single channel convolution neural network (1D-CNN)
as a simple deep learning algorithm. The calibration results showed that the
ADXL345 has a reading error in magnitude value when monitoring vibrations
above 230 Hz due to aliasing effect. However, recognizing patterns in the data is
more crucial in fault diagnosis applications. The monitored vibration data were
visualized in a GUI using LabVIEW application, providing intuitive information
for users to access and read vibration data related to RPM equipment working
conditions. The study investigated vibration signals in eight working conditions of
RPM equipment, collecting 816 samples in three categories. The models were then
tested in five scenarios of vibration data, with each model tuned to find the best
architecture network in the DL algorithm.
The results showed that the 1D-CNN implemented triaxial axis vibration data had
significantly high accuracy performance with low variant for classifying RPM
equipment working conditions with 97.58% accuracy. In addition, the 1D-CNN
architecture in the proposed method has simpler configurations and acceptable
computational cost.