Advanced Condition Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance for Mechatronic-Hydraulic Systems

A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Electrical Machines and Drives".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 264

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School of Mechanical Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China
Interests: industrial big data analysis; artificial intelligence algorithm; signal analysis and processing; machine health monitoring
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Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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State Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Vibration, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Interests: smart hydraulic components; health monitoring and intelligent maintenance; digital twins of electro-hydraulic systems
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Dear Colleagues,

As indispensable components in aerospace, intelligent manufacturing, and energy industries, mechatronic-hydraulic systems present distinctive challenges for condition monitoring and predictive maintenance. Their hybrid integration of mechanical, electronic, and hydraulic subsystems, coupled with multi-modal interactions under dynamic and often harsh operating conditions, necessitates innovative monitoring approaches that transcend traditional single-domain diagnostic techniques. This complexity demands advanced sensor fusion strategies, robust data-driven prognostic models, and adaptive maintenance frameworks capable of addressing cross-disciplinary failure mechanisms.

This Special Issue calls for original research submissions focusing on recent advances in diagnostic and prognostic technologies for mechatronic-hydraulic systems. We particularly welcome groundbreaking research that pioneers novel methodological frameworks or demonstrates the transformative real-world implementation of algorithms on complex engineering systems. Through this Special Issue, we aim to provide researchers and practitioners with valuable, cutting-edge knowledge while inspiring readers with promising new ideas and future research directions. High-quality submissions that bridge theory and practice are especially welcome.

Research topics that are of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Advanced fault diagnosis, remaining life prediction, and maintenance decision methods for mechatronic-hydraulic systems or their subsystems;
  • Physics of failure modeling and digital twins;
  • Health monitoring sensors and multi-source data fusion;
  • Edge computing solutions for scalable predictive maintenance;
  • Managing uncertainty and risk in predictive maintenance;
  • Design and management of predictive maintenance platforms.

Dr. Pengfei Liang
Dr. Shaogan Ye
Dr. Qun Chao
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Keywords

  • mechatronic-hydraulic systems
  • condition monitoring
  • predictive maintenance
  • sensors
  • artificial intelligence
  • digital twin

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Semi-Supervised Fault Diagnosis Method for Hydraulic Pumps Based on Data Augmentation Consistency Regularization
by Siyuan Liu, Jixiong Yin, Zhengming Zhang, Yongqiang Zhang, Chao Ai and Wanlu Jiang
Machines 2025, 13(7), 557; https://doi.org/10.3390/machines13070557 - 26 Jun 2025
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Due to the scarcity of labeled samples, the practical engineering application of deep learning-based hydraulic pump fault diagnosis methods is extremely challenging. This study proposes a semi-supervised learning method based on data augmented consistency regularization (DACR) to address the issue of lack of [...] Read more.
Due to the scarcity of labeled samples, the practical engineering application of deep learning-based hydraulic pump fault diagnosis methods is extremely challenging. This study proposes a semi-supervised learning method based on data augmented consistency regularization (DACR) to address the issue of lack of labeled data in diagnostic models. It utilizes augmented data obtained from the improved symplectic geometry modal decomposition method as additional perturbations, expanding the feature space of limited labeled samples under different operating conditions of the pump. A high-confidence label prediction process is formulated through a threshold determination strategy to estimate the potential label distribution of unlabeled samples. Consistent regularization loss is introduced in labeled and unlabeled data, respectively, to regularize model training, reducing the sensitivity of the classifier to additional perturbations. The supervised loss term ensures that the predictions of the augmented labeled samples are consistent with the true labels. Meanwhile, the unsupervised loss term can be used to minimize the difference between the distributions of unlabeled samples for different augmented versions. Finally, the proposed method is combined with Kolmogorov–Arnold Network (KAN). Comparative experiments based on data from two models of hydraulic pumps verify the superior recognition performance of this method under low label rate. Full article
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