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Variational mode decomposition (VMD) is used to remove noise from the original signal and differentiate the signal into multiple modes. The sound pressure signals of different modes are mapped to the Mel filter bank in the frequency domain, and then the Mel frequency cepstral coefficients of the respective mode signals are calculated in the mapping range of frequency domain, and the optimized Mel frequency cepstral coefficients are used as the input of long and short time memory network (LSTM) which is trained and verified, and the fault diagnosis model of the diesel engine is obtained. The experimental part compares the fault diagnosis effects of different feature extraction methods, different modal decomposition methods and different classifiers, finally verifying the feasibility and effectiveness of the method proposed in this paper, and providing solutions to the problem of how to realise fault diagnosis using acoustic signals.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22218325","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,30]],"date-time":"2022-10-30T10:47:57Z","timestamp":1667126877000},"page":"8325","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":41,"title":["Combination of VMD Mapping MFCC and LSTM: A New Acoustic Fault Diagnosis Method of Diesel Engine"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Hao","family":"Yan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Shijiazhuang Campus, Army Engineering University of PLA, Shijiazhuang 050003, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Huajun","family":"Bai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Shijiazhuang Campus, Army Engineering University of PLA, Shijiazhuang 050003, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xianbiao","family":"Zhan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Shijiazhuang Campus, Army Engineering University of PLA, Shijiazhuang 050003, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhenghao","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Shijiazhuang Campus, Army Engineering University of PLA, Shijiazhuang 050003, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Liang","family":"Wen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Shijiazhuang Campus, Army Engineering University of PLA, Shijiazhuang 050003, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xisheng","family":"Jia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Shijiazhuang Campus, Army Engineering University of PLA, Shijiazhuang 050003, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Bai, H., Wen, L., Ma, Y., and Jia, X. 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