An intelligent fault diagnosis method based on domain adaptation for rolling bearings under variable load conditions

Author(s):  
Jianqun Zhang ◽  
Qing Zhang ◽  
Xianrong Qin ◽  
Yuantao Sun

To identify rolling bearing faults under variable load conditions, a method named DISA-KNN is proposed in this paper, which is based on the strategy of feature extraction-domain adaptation-classification. To be specific, the time-domain and frequency-domain indicators are used for feature extraction. Discriminative and domain invariant subspace alignment (DISA) is used to minimize the data distributions’ discrepancies between the training data (source domain) and testing data (target domain). K-nearest neighbor (KNN) is applied to identify rolling bearing faults. DISA-KNN’s validation is proved by the experimental signal collected under different load conditions. The identification accuracies obtained by the DISA-KNN method are more than 90% on four datasets, including one dataset with 99.5% accuracy. The strength of the proposed method is further highlighted by comparisons with the other 8 methods. These results reveal that the proposed method is promising for the rolling bearing fault diagnosis in real rotating machinery.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Peng Chen ◽  
Xiaoqiang Zhao ◽  
HongMei Jiang

In the process of fault feature extraction of rolling bearing, the feature information is difficult to be extracted fully. A novel method of fault feature extraction called hierarchical dispersion entropy is proposed in this paper. In this method, the vibration signals firstly are decomposed hierarchically. Secondly, dispersion entropies of different nodes are calculated. Hierarchical dispersion entropy can realize the comprehensive feature extraction of the high- and low-frequency band information of vibration signals and overcome the problems that dispersion entropy and multiscale dispersion entropy are insufficient to extract the fault feature information of vibration signals. The feasibility of hierarchical dispersion entropy is obtained by analyzing the hierarchical dispersion entropy of Gaussian white noise and compared with the multiscale dispersion entropy of Gaussian white noise. Meanwhile, a fault diagnosis method for rolling bearings based on hierarchical dispersion entropy and k-nearest neighbor (KNN) classifier is developed. Finally, the superiority of the proposed fault diagnosis method is verified in the realization of fault diagnosis of the rolling bearing in different positions and different degrees of damage.


Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (13) ◽  
pp. 3753
Author(s):  
Xiaodong Wang ◽  
Feng Liu ◽  
Dongdong Zhao

Bearings are ubiquitous in rotating machinery and bearings in good working conditions are essential for the availability and safety of the machine. Various intelligent fault diagnosis models have been widely studied aiming to prevent system failures. These data-driven fault diagnosis models work well when training data and testing data are from the same distribution, which is not easy to sustain in industry since the working environment of rotating machinery is often subject to change. Recently, the domain adaptation methods for fault diagnosis between different working conditions have been extensively researched, which fully utilize the labeled data from the same machine under different working conditions to address this domain shift diploma. However, for a target machine with seldom occurred faulty data under any working conditions, the domain adaptation approaches between working conditions are not applicable. Hence, the cross-machine fault diagnosis tasks are recently proposed to utilize the labeled data from related but not identical machines. The larger domain shift between machines makes the cross-machine fault diagnosis a more challenging task. The large domain shift may cause the well-trained model on source domain deteriorates on target domain, and the ambiguous samples near the decision boundary are prone to be misclassified. In addition, the sparse faulty samples in target domain make a class-imbalanced scenario. To address the two issues, in this paper we propose a semi-supervised adversarial domain adaptation approach for cross-machine fault diagnosis which incorporates the virtual adversarial training and batch nuclear-norm maximization to make the fault diagnosis robust and discriminative. Experiments of transferring between three bearing datasets show that the proposed method is able to effectively learn a discriminative model given only a labeled faulty sample of each class in target domain. The research provides a feasible approach for knowledge transfer in fault diagnosis scenarios.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing An ◽  
Ping Ai

In many real-world fault diagnosis applications, due to the frequent changes in working conditions, the distribution of labeled training data (source domain) is different from the distribution of the unlabeled test data (target domain), which leads to performance degradation. In order to solve this problem, an end-to-end unsupervised domain adaptation bear fault diagnosis model that combines Riemann metric correlation alignment and one-dimensional convolutional neural network (RMCA-1DCNN) is proposed in this study. Second-order statistic alignment of the specific activation layer in source and target domains is considered to be a regularization item and embedded in the deep convolutional neural network architecture to compensate for domain shift. Experimental results on the Case Western Reserve University motor bearing database demonstrate that the proposed method has strong fault-discriminative and domain-invariant capacity. Therefore, the proposed method can achieve higher diagnosis accuracy than that of other existing experimental methods.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Chang Liu ◽  
Gang Cheng ◽  
Xihui Chen ◽  
Yong Li

According to the rolling bearing local fault vibration mechanism, a monopulse feature extraction and fault diagnosis method of rolling bearing under low-speed and heavy-load conditions based on phase scan and CNN is proposed. The synchronous collected speed signal is used to calculate bearing phase function and divide fault monopulse periods. The monopulse waveforms of multiple fault periods are scanned and ensemble averaged to suppress noise interference and detail feature loss at the same time of feature extraction. By iteratively calibrating phase function, the feature matrix containing bearing fault information can be obtained. Finally, CNN is used to recognize and classify different bearing states. The experimental and analysis results show that bearing fault diagnosis can be achieved. The total recognition rates of constant and variable speed samples are 99.67% and 99.89%, respectively. The trained network has fast convergence speed and good generalization ability for different fault sizes and working conditions. Further experiments show that the method can also accurately identify different bearing degradation states. The total recognition rates of constant and variable speed samples are 96.67% and 95.56%, respectively. The limited errors are concentrated between the degradation states with the same type weak fault. The experimental results using Case Western Reserve University bearing data show that feature extraction and network training are better, and the recognition rates of 5 bearing states are all 100%. Therefore, the proposed method is an effective rolling bearing feature extraction and fault diagnosis technology.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huafeng Zhou ◽  
Pei-Yuan Cheng ◽  
Si-Yu Shao ◽  
Yu-Wei Zhao ◽  
Xin-Yu Yang

Abstract Deep learning-based mechanical fault diagnosis method has made great achievements. A high-performance neural network model requires sufficient labelled data for training to obtain accurate classification results. Desired results mainly depends on assumption that training and testing data are collected under the same working conditions, environment and operating conditions, where the data have the same probability distribution. However, in the practical scenarios, training data and the testing data follow different distributions to some degree, and the newly collected testing data are usually unlabeled. In order to solve the problems above, a model based on transfer learning and domain adaptation is proposed to achieve efficient fault diagnosis under different data distributions. The proposed framework adapts the features extracted by multiple dynamic convolutional layers, and creatively utilizes correlation alignment(CORAL) to perform a non-linear transformation to align the second-order statistics of the two distributions for fault diagnosis, which greatly improves the accuracy of fault classification in the target domain under unlabeled data. Finally, experimental verifications have been carried out among two different datasets.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 3382
Author(s):  
Zhongwei Zhang ◽  
Mingyu Shao ◽  
Liping Wang ◽  
Sujuan Shao ◽  
Chicheng Ma

As the key component to transmit power and torque, the fault diagnosis of rotating machinery is crucial to guarantee the reliable operation of mechanical equipment. Regrettably, sample class imbalance is a common phenomenon in industrial applications, which causes large cross-domain distribution discrepancies for domain adaptation (DA) and results in performance degradation for most of the existing mechanical fault diagnosis approaches. To address this issue, a novel DA approach that simultaneously reduces the cross-domain distribution difference and the geometric difference is proposed, which is defined as MRMI. This work contains three parts to improve the sample class imbalance issue: (1) A novel distance metric method (MVD) is proposed and applied to improve the performance of marginal distribution adaptation. (2) Manifold regularization is combined with instance reweighting to simultaneously explore the intrinsic manifold structure and remove irrelevant source-domain samples adaptively. (3) The ℓ2-norm regularization is applied as the data preprocessing tool to improve the model generalization performance. The gear and rolling bearing datasets with class imbalanced samples are applied to validate the reliability of MRMI. According to the fault diagnosis results, MRMI can significantly outperform competitive approaches under the condition of sample class imbalance.


Author(s):  
Ying Zhang ◽  
Hongfu Zuo ◽  
Fang Bai

There are mainly two problems with the current feature extraction methods used in the electrostatic monitoring of rolling bearings, which affect their abilities to identify early faults: (1) since noises are mixed in the electrostatic signals, it is difficult to extract weak early fault features; (2) traditional time and frequency domain features have limited ability to provide a quantitative indicator of degradation state. With regard to these two problems, a new feature extraction method for rolling bearing fault diagnosis by electrostatic monitoring sensors is proposed in this paper. First, the spectrum interpolation is adopted to suppress the power-frequency interference in the electrostatic signal. Then the resultant signal is used to construct Hankel matrix, the number of useful components is automatically selected based on the difference spectrum of singular values, after that the signal is reconstructed to remove background noises and random pulses. Finally, the permutation entropy of the denoised signal is calculated and smoothed using the exponential weighted moving average method, which is used to be a quantitative indicator of bearing performance state. The simulation and experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively remove noises and significantly bring forward the time when early faults are detected.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Jun He ◽  
Xiang Li ◽  
Yong Chen ◽  
Danfeng Chen ◽  
Jing Guo ◽  
...  

In mechanical fault diagnosis, it is impossible to collect massive labeled samples with the same distribution in real industry. Transfer learning, a promising method, is usually used to address the critical problem. However, as the number of samples increases, the interdomain distribution discrepancy measurement of the existing method has a higher computational complexity, which may make the generalization ability of the method worse. To solve the problem, we propose a deep transfer learning method based on 1D-CNN for rolling bearing fault diagnosis. First, 1-dimension convolutional neural network (1D-CNN), as the basic framework, is used to extract features from vibration signal. The CORrelation ALignment (CORAL) is employed to minimize marginal distribution discrepancy between the source domain and target domain. Then, the cross-entropy loss function and Adam optimizer are used to minimize the classification errors and the second-order statistics of feature distance between the source domain and target domain, respectively. Finally, based on the bearing datasets of Case Western Reserve University and Jiangnan University, seven transfer fault diagnosis comparison experiments are carried out. The results show that our method has better performance.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Zhang Xu ◽  
Darong Huang ◽  
Tang Min ◽  
Yunhui Ou

To solve the problem that the bearing fault of variable working conditions is challenging to identify and classify in the industrial field, this paper proposes a new method based on optimization of multidimension fault energy characteristics and integrates with an improved least-squares support vector machine (LSSVM). First, because the traditional wavelet energy feature is difficult to effectively reflect the characteristics of rolling bearing under different working conditions, based on analyzing the wavelet energy feature extraction in detail, a collaborative method of multidimension fault energy feature extraction combined with the method of Transfer Component Analysis (TCA) is constructed, which improves the discrimination between the different features and the compactness between the same features of rolling bearing faults. Then, for solving the problem of the local optimal of particle swarm optimization (PSO) in fault diagnosis and recognition of rolling bearing, an improved LSSVM based on particle swarm optimization and wavelet mutation optimization is established to realize the collaborative optimization and adjustment of LSSVM dynamic parameters. Based on the improved LSSVM and optimization of multidimensional energy characteristics, a new method for fault diagnosis of rolling bearing is designed. Finally, the simulation and analysis of the proposed algorithm are verified by the experimental data of different working conditions. The experimental results show that this method can effectively extract the multidimensional fault characteristics under variable working conditions and has a high fault recognition rate.


Author(s):  
D. Gritzner ◽  
J. Ostermann

Abstract. Modern machine learning, especially deep learning, which is used in a variety of applications, requires a lot of labelled data for model training. Having an insufficient amount of training examples leads to models which do not generalize well to new input instances. This is a particular significant problem for tasks involving aerial images: often training data is only available for a limited geographical area and a narrow time window, thus leading to models which perform poorly in different regions, at different times of day, or during different seasons. Domain adaptation can mitigate this issue by using labelled source domain training examples and unlabeled target domain images to train a model which performs well on both domains. Modern adversarial domain adaptation approaches use unpaired data. We propose using pairs of semantically similar images, i.e., whose segmentations are accurate predictions of each other, for improved model performance. In this paper we show that, as an upper limit based on ground truth, using semantically paired aerial images during training almost always increases model performance with an average improvement of 4.2% accuracy and .036 mean intersection-over-union (mIoU). Using a practical estimate of semantic similarity, we still achieve improvements in more than half of all cases, with average improvements of 2.5% accuracy and .017 mIoU in those cases.


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