The operational signals of autonomous underwater vehicle(AUV)propeller exhibit strong coupling and nonlinear characteristics. In the aspect of fault diagnosis of propuller the conventional intelligent fault diagnosis methods has high computational complexity and low diagnostic accuracy. A fault diagnosis method based on multi-scale parallel dilated convolution and long short-term memory(MSPDC-LSTM)is proposed. In order to effectively capture the multi-scale spatial features of propeller faults
a parallel dilated convolution module is introduced in the multi-scale network. This module processes the features at different scales in parallel and expands the receptive field without increasing the number of parameters
thereby enhancing the performance and efficiency of model when handling complex data. The network's ability to capture the temporal information characteristics of vibration signals is improved by integrating the LSTM module
further increasing the accuracy of processing the complex sequential data. The feature learning capability was enhanced by deeply extracting the spatiotemporal characteristics of the signals
significantly improving the robustness of fault diagnosis. To validate the feasibility of the proposed method
the experiments are conducted using AUV experimental data. The results show that the proposed method achieves an average accuracy of 99.67%
and even under strong noise interference at 2 dB
it still reaches an average accuracy of 95.97%. This demonstrates that the method can effectively identify and diagnose the failures of AUV propeller
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