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Vibration Trend Prediction of Pumped Storage Unit Based on Temporal-Enhanced GAN and Improved Bidirectional LSTM

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: Accurate prediction of the state trend of pumped storage units (PSUs) is essential for timely anomaly detection and preventive maintenance to improve the overall economic performance of power plants. Nevertheless, the complex and time-varying characteristics of PSU vibration data increase the difficulty of accurately modeling their dynamic evolution. In response to this problem, an integrated vibration trend prediction (VTP) method for PSUs is developed by combining a temporal-enhanced generative adversarial network (TEGAN) with an improved bidirectional long short-term memory network (IBiLSTM). Firstly, TEGAN expands the original dataset by synthesizing artificial samples, thereby improving the structural diversity and representativeness of vibration data. Within TEGAN, a temporal characterization (TC) module is designed to collaboratively guide the generator and the discriminator, while a data processing module is adopted to incorporate structural priors into the learning process. Secondly, variational mode decomposition (VMD) is applied to decompose the original vibration data into intrinsic modes, followed by PSR to reconstruct the components of each modality into a higher-dimensional state space representation. Subsequently, by incorporating the proposed multi-order Kolmogorov–Arnold network (M-KAN) for high-order nonlinear fitting, IBiLSTM is employed to model each reconstructed sub-sequence. Finally, the outputs of all sub-sequences are aggregated to produce the final VTP results. The comparative evaluation verifies the advantages of the developed method in terms of prediction accuracy and robustness for PSU vibration trend forecasting.

Source: Algorithms

DOI: 10.3390/a19080698