An End-to-End Intelligent Fault Diagnosis Application for Rolling Bearings Based on MobileNet

Rolling bearings are widely used in industrial manufacturing, and ensuring their stable and effective fault detection is a core requirement in the manufacturing process. However, it is a great challenge to achieve a highly accurate rolling bearing fault diagnosis because of the severe imbalance and distribution differences in fault data due to weak early fault features and interference from environmental noise. An intelligent fault diagnosis strategy for rolling bearings based on grayscale image transformation, a generative adversative network, and a convolutional neural network was proposed to solve this problem. First, the original vibration signal is converted into a grayscale image. Then more training samples are generated using GANs to solve severe imbalance and distribution differences in fault data. Finally, the rolling bearing condition detection and fault identification are carried out by using SECNN. The availability of the method is substantiated by experiments on datasets with different data imbalance ratios. In addition, the superiority of this diagnosis strategy is verified by comparing it with other mainstream intelligent diagnosis techniques. The experimental result demonstrates that this strategy can reach more than 99.6% recognition accuracy even under substantial environmental noise interference or changing working conditions and has good stability in the presence of a severe imbalance in fault data.

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A Novel Fault Diagnosis Algorithm for Rolling Bearings Based on One-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Network and INPSO-SVM

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app10124303 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (12) ◽

pp. 4303

Author(s):

Yang Shao ◽

Xianfeng Yuan ◽

Chengjin Zhang ◽

Yong Song ◽

Qingyang Xu

Keyword(s):

Neural Network ◽

Fault Diagnosis ◽

Convolutional Neural Network ◽

Experimental Results ◽

Learning Ability ◽

Support Vector ◽

Intelligent Fault Diagnosis ◽

Rolling Bearings ◽

One Dimensional ◽

Hybrid Framework

Deep learning based intelligent fault diagnosis methods have become a research hotspot in the fields of fault diagnosis and the health management of rolling bearings in recent years. To effectively identify incipient faults in rotating machinery, this paper proposes a novel hybrid intelligent fault diagnosis framework based on a convolutional neural network and support vector machine (SVM). First, an improved one-dimensional convolutional neural network (1DCNN) was adopted to extract fault features, and the state information and intrinsic properties of the raw vibration signals were mined. Second, the extracted features were used to train the SVM, which was applied to classify the fault category. The proposed hybrid framework combined the excellent classification performance of the SVM for small samples and the strong feature-learning ability of CNN network. In order to tune the parameters of the SVM, an improved novel particle swarm optimization algorithm (INPSO) which combined the Tent map and Lévy flight strategy was proposed. Numerical experimental results indicated that the proposed PSO variant had a better performance in searching accuracy and convergence speed. At last, multiple groups of rolling bearing fault diagnosis experiments were carried out and experimental results showed that, with the proposed 1DCNN-INPSO-SVM model, the hybrid framework was capable of diagnosing with high precision for rolling bearings and superior to some traditional fault diagnosis methods.

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