Journal of Civil Aviation University of China ›› 2025, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (1): 60-66.

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MSCNN-LSTM method for monitoring the state of horizontal stabilizer system
based on flight data

ZHANG Penga , HU Fangyub , DUAN Zhaobina , LIU Jingjingb
  

  1. a. Engineering Techniques Training Center, b. College of Electronic Information Engineering, CAUC, Tianjin 300300, China 
  • Received:2023-02-10 Revised:2023-04-10 Online:2025-04-09 Published:2025-04-09

Abstract:

To address the problems of insufficient fault samples, imbalanced data classes and lack of labeling in real flight data, a state monitoring method for a horizontal stabilizer system based on multi-scale convolutional neural network
(MSCNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) network is proposed in this paper. This method does not rely on labeled data and uses unsupervised learning to monitor the state of the horizontal stabilizer system. Firstly, the quick
access recorder (QAR) data of the system in normal operation are extracted in both spatial and temporal dimensions
using MSCNN-LSTM to achieve rudder position prediction. Secondly, the residuals between the predicted and actual values of the rudder position are calculated and the distribution of the residuals is analyzed to determine the
threshold for the health state of the system. Finally, the QAR data of an aircraft is used for verification, and the experimental results show that the proposed method in this paper can accurately achieve the abnormal state identification of the horizontal stabilizer system at the flight level and can provide an abnormal alarm one flight cycle in
advance when system failure occurring.

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