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For the problem of missing fault information of single-channel sensors in condition monitoring, we built a diesel engine valve clearance preset simulation test bench and constructed a multi-sensor acquisition system to realize the acquisition of diesel engine multi-dimensional cylinder head signals. At the same time, for the problem of poor adaptability of most signal analysis methods, the improved butterfly optimization algorithm by the bacterial foraging algorithm was adopted to adaptively optimize the key parameter for variational mode decomposition, with discrete entropy as the fitness value. Then, to reduce the uncertainty of artificially selecting fault characteristics, the characteristic parameters with a higher recognition degree of diesel engine signal were selected through characteristic sensitivity analysis. To achieve an effective dimensionality reduction integration of multi-channel features, a stacked sparse autoencoder was used to achieve deep fusion of the multi-dimensional feature values. Finally, the feature samples were entered into the constructed one-dimensional convolutional neural network with a four-layer parameter space for training to realize the health status assessment of the diesel engine. In addition, we verified the effectiveness of the method by carrying out valve degradation simulation experiments on the diesel engine test bench. Experimental results show that, compared with other common evaluation methods, the method used in this paper has a better health state evaluation effect.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22218129","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,24]],"date-time":"2022-10-24T10:09:23Z","timestamp":1666606163000},"page":"8129","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Health Status Assessment of Diesel Engine Valve Clearance Based on BFA-BOA-VMD Adaptive Noise Reduction and Multi-Channel Information Fusion"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3156-0735","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yangshuo","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Equipment Command and Management, Shijiazhuang Campus, Army Engineering University of PLA, Shijiazhuang 050003, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7969-2040","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jianshe","family":"Kang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Equipment Command and Management, Shijiazhuang Campus, Army Engineering University of PLA, Shijiazhuang 050003, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Liang","family":"Wen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Equipment Command and Management, Shijiazhuang Campus, Army Engineering University of PLA, Shijiazhuang 050003, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yunjie","family":"Bai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"66029 Unit of the Chinese People\u2019s Liberation Army, Xilinguolemeng 011200, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chiming","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Equipment Command and Management, Shijiazhuang Campus, Army Engineering University of PLA, Shijiazhuang 050003, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"267","DOI":"10.1002\/tt.3020060305","article-title":"A review of condition monitoring and fault diagnosis for diesel engines","volume":"6","author":"Jones","year":"2000","journal-title":"Tribotest"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1691","DOI":"10.1007\/s10586-017-0748-0","article-title":"A novel approach for marine diesel engine fault diagnosis","volume":"20","author":"Cai","year":"2017","journal-title":"Clust. 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