In operational diagnostics and recognition of states of complex technical systems, an important task is to identify small time-determined changes in complex measured diagnostic signals of the controlled object. For these purposes, the signal is transformed into a small-sized image in the diagnostic feature space, moving along trajectories of different shapes, depending on the nature and magnitude of the changes. It is important to identify stable and deterministic patterns of changes in these complex-shaped diagnostic signals. Identification of such patterns largely depends on the principles of constructing a small-sized feature space. In the article, the space of decomposition coefficients of the measured signal in the adaptive orthonormal basis of canonical transformations is considered as such a space. In this case, the basis is constructed based on a representative sample of realizations of the controlled signal for various states of the system using the proposed algorithm. The identified shapes of the trajectories of the images correspond to specific types of deterministic changes in the signal. Analytical functional dependencies were discovered linking a specific type of signal change with the shape of the trajectory of the image in the feature space. The proposed approach, when used, simplifies modeling, operational diagnostics and condition monitoring during the implementation of, for example, low-frequency diagnostics and defectoscopy of structures, vibration diagnostics, monitoring of the stress state of an object by analyzing the time characteristics of response functions to impact.

Keywords: modeling, functional dependencies, state recognition, diagnostic image, image movement trajectories, small changes in diagnostic signals, canonical decomposition basis, analytical description of image trajectory