Elevator fault diagnosis based on digital twin and PINNs-e-RGCN

The rapid development of urbanization has led to a continuous rise in number of elevators. This has led to elevator failures from time to time. At present, although there are some studies on elevator fault diagnosis, they are more or less limited by the lack of data to make the research more superficial. For such complex special equipment as elevator, it is difficult to obtain reliable and sufficient data to train the fault diagnosis model. To address this issue, this paper first establishes a numerical model of vertical vibration for elevators with three degrees of freedom. The obtained motion equations are then used as constraints to acquire simulated vibration data through PINNs. Next, the proposed e-RGCN is employed for elevator fault diagnosis. Finally, experimental validation shows that the fault diagnosis accuracy with the participation of digital twins exceeds 90%, and the accuracy of the proposed model reaches 96.61%, significantly higher than that of other comparative models.