Higher-order moment matching based fine-grained adversarial domain adaptation method for intelligent bearing fault diagnosis

Due to the data distribution discrepancy caused by the time-varying working conditions, the intelligent diagnosis methods fail to achieve accurate fault classification in engineering scenarios. To this end, this paper presents a novel higher-order moment matching-based adversarial domain adaptation method (HMMADA) for intelligent bearing fault diagnosis. First, the deep one-dimensional convolution neural network is constructed as the feature extractor to learn the discriminative features of each category through different domains. Then, the distribution discrepancy across domains is significantly reduced by using the joint higher-order moment statistics (HMS) and adversarial learning. In particular, the HMS integrates the first-order and second-order statistics into a unified framework and achieves a fine-grained distribution adaptation between different domains. Finally, the feasibility and effectiveness of the HMMADA are validated by several transfer experiments constructed on two different bearing datasets. The results demonstrate that the HMS is more effective compared with the lower-order statistics.