Fault Diagnosis Method For Rotating Machinery Research Articles

MPNet: A lightweight fault diagnosis network for rotating machinery

Rotating machinery is prone to faults, especially bearing faults. Existing machinery fault diagnosis methods suffer from low accuracy and poor robustness under actual complex working conditions. To address these problems, this paper proposes a sound signal-based rotating machinery fault diagnosis method and designs a lightweight fault diagnosis network called MPNet. A multi-branch feature fusion module is constructed to capture the multi-scale correlation information of the sound features. A residual attention pyramid module is designed to adaptively learn abstract fault information at different levels, then the feature-enhanced attention maps at multi-scale generated by hierarchical fusion. Experimental results on a public bearing dataset and a self-made idler dataset reveal that the proposed method achieves 95.83% and 94.81% accuracy, respectively, meeting the requirements of lightweight and real-time detection. Compared with conventional methods, the proposed method has better diagnostic precision and robustness under strong noise. The code library is available at: https://github.com/xgli411/MPNet.

A Rotating Machinery Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Dynamic Graph Convolution Network and Hard Threshold Denoising.

With the development of precision sensing instruments and data storage devices, the fusion of multi-sensor data in gearbox fault diagnosis has attracted much attention. However, existing methods have difficulty in capturing the local temporal dependencies of multi-sensor monitoring information, and the inescapable noise severely decreases the accuracy of multi-sensor information fusion diagnosis. To address these issues, this paper proposes a fault diagnosis method based on dynamic graph convolutional neural networks and hard threshold denoising. Firstly, considering that the relationships between monitoring data from different sensors change over time, a dynamic graph structure is adopted to model the temporal dependencies of multi-sensor data, and, further, a graph convolutional neural network is constructed to achieve the interaction and feature extraction of temporal information from multi-sensor data. Secondly, to avoid the influence of noise in practical engineering, a hard threshold denoising strategy is designed, and a learnable hard threshold denoising layer is embedded into the graph neural network. Experimental fault datasets from two typical gearbox fault test benches under environmental noise are used to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method in gearbox fault diagnosis. The experimental results show that the proposed DDGCN method achieves an average diagnostic accuracy of up to 99.7% under different levels of environmental noise, demonstrating good noise resistance.

Rotating Machinery Fault Diagnosis under Time–Varying Speed Conditions Based on Adaptive Identification of Order Structure

Rotating machinery fault diagnosis is of key significance for ensuring safe and efficient operation of various industrial equipment. However, under nonstationary operating conditions, the fault–induced characteristic frequencies are often time–varying. Conventional Fourier spectrum analysis is not suitable for revealing time–varying details, and nonstationary fault feature extraction methods are still in desperate need. Order spectrum can reveal the rotational–speed–related time–varying frequency components as spectral peaks in order domain, thus facilitating fault feature extraction under time–varying speed conditions. However, the speed–unrelated frequency components are still nonstationary after angular–domain resampling, thus causing wide–band features and interferences in the order spectrum. To overcome such a drawback, this work proposes a rotating machinery fault diagnosis method based on adaptive separation of time–varying components and order feature extraction. Firstly, the rotational speed is estimated by the multi–order probabilistic approach (MOPA), thus eliminating the inconvenience of installing measurement equipment. Secondly, adaptive separation of the time–varying frequency component is achieved through time–varying filtering and surrogate test. It effectively eliminates interference from irrelevant components and noise. Finally, a high–resolution order spectrum is constructed based on the average amplitude envelope of each mono–component. It does not involve Fourier transform or angular–domain resampling, thus avoiding spectral leakage and resampling errors. By identifying the fault–related spectral peaks in the constructed order spectrum, accurate fault diagnosis can be achieved. The Rényi entropy values of the proposed order spectrum are significantly lower than those of the traditional order spectrum. This result verifies the effective energy concentration and high resolution of the proposed order spectrum. The results of both numerical simulation and lab experiments confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method in accurately presenting the time–varying frequency components for rotating machinery diagnosing faults.

Fault diagnosis and identification of rotating machinery based on one-dimensional convolutional neural network

The paper focuses on two kinds of rotating machinery, miniature table drilling machine and automobile engine, as the research object. Traditional machine learning has the need for manual feature extraction, and is very dependent on expert diagnostic experience and expertise, but also has the disadvantages of low accuracy, low timeliness, low efficiency, etc. For the traditional rotating machinery fault diagnosis method is more based on the traditional machine learning model, this paper puts forward a one-dimensional convolutional neural network-based fault identification method. According to the characteristics of the miniature table drilling machine and the automobile engine which are not detachable, the corresponding faults are set up respectively, Vibration signals of the attitude sensor are obtained by using the signal collector, and the collected data are preprocessed, then the CNN model is built for fault identification, and the network structure is constantly optimized to obtain the optimal network model with high accuracy (up to 100 %) and robustness. The results show that the one-dimensional convolutional neural network model improves the fault recognition accuracy and reduces the cost compared with the traditional machine learning SVM model when the original signal is used as the input signal.

A new rotating machinery fault diagnosis method based on data driven and expert knowledge

A new rotating machinery fault diagnosis method based on data driven and expert knowledge

A new rotating machinery fault diagnosis method for different speeds based on improved multivariate multiscale fuzzy distribution entropy

A new rotating machinery fault diagnosis method for different speeds based on improved multivariate multiscale fuzzy distribution entropy

Fault Diagnosis of Rotating Machinery Bearings Based on Improved DCNN and WOA-DELM

A bearing is a critical component in the transmission of rotating machinery. However, due to prolonged exposure to heavy loads and high-speed environments, rolling bearings are highly susceptible to faults, Hence, it is crucial to enhance bearing fault diagnosis to ensure safe and reliable operation of rotating machinery. In order to achieve this, a rotating machinery fault diagnosis method based on a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) and Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) optimized Deep Extreme Learning Machine (DELM) is proposed in this paper. DCNN is a combination of the Efficient Channel Attention Net (ECA-Net) and Bi-directional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM). In this method, firstly, a DCNN classification network is constructed. The ECA-Net and BiLSTM are brought into the deep convolutional neural network to extract critical features. Next, the WOA is used to optimize the weight of the initial input layer of DELM to build the WOA-DELM classifier model. Finally, the features extracted by the Improved DCNN (IDCNN) are sent to the WOA-DELM model for bearing fault diagnosis. The diagnostic capability of the proposed IDCNN-WOA-DELM method was evaluated through multiple-condition fault diagnosis experiments using the CWRU-bearing dataset with various settings, and comparative tests against other methods were conducted as well. The results indicate that the proposed method demonstrates good diagnostic performance.

Fault diagnosis of rotating machinery via multi-structure fusion discriminative projection

Rotating machinery is one of the important parts of industrial production equipment, and it is of great practical significance for fault diagnosis. Aiming at the problem of classification difficulty caused by feature interleaving in complex working conditions and high-dimension of rotating machinery fault samples, a rotating machinery fault diagnosis method based on multi-structure fusion discriminative projection (MFDP) is proposed. MFDP constructed intraclass and interclass hypergraph structures with multivariate relationships, fully revealing the higher-order association information among multiple samples. Besides, a tangential graph structure of MFDP is further constructed by combining the tangential affine of local samples to preserve the local tangential information of the manifold space. In the method, a unified objective optimization model of the discriminative hypergraph structures and local tangential graph structures is developed, and by solving the model, we can obtain fault structure features with well intraclass compactness and interclass separability. Extensive experiments on the Case Western Reserve University bearing dataset and Connecticut gear dataset show that the method has a good diagnostic accuracy of rotating machinery in different working conditions.

Multibranch and Multiscale Dynamic Convolutional Network for Small Sample Fault Diagnosis of Rotating Machinery

Deep learning methods have been widely used in the field of fault diagnosis of rotating machinery. As one of the deep learning methods, multi-scale convolutional neural network (MSCNN) can achieve accurate fault diagnosis by extracting feature information of vibration signals at different scales. However, in practical applications, a small number of fault samples limit the performance of MSCNN. To overcome this problem, a small sample rotating machinery fault diagnosis method based on multi-branch and multi-scale dynamic convolutional network (MBSDCN) is proposed. Firstly, a feature splitting strategy is proposed, which splits a single input into multi-branch inputs to ensure that each multi-scale convolutional layer is matched to the appropriate input. Secondly, a channel reconstruction (CR) attention mechanism is designed, and CR attention mechanism can form a direct mapping of high-dimensional space with the fully connected layer through the reconstruction processing of channels, thus making the connection between feature channels closer. Finally, a novel multi-scale feature extraction model is constructed, in which multi-scale convolutional layers are applied to extract multi-branch input features, and the CR attention mechanism is used to calibrate the contribution of multi-scale convolution layers. The performance of MBSDCN is evaluated with CWRU rolling bearing dataset and UOC gearbox dataset and is compared with some advanced deep learning methods. The comparison results indicate that the proposed MBSDCN can accurately diagnose faults under small sample conditions. In addition, the experimental results in noisy environments indicate that the proposed MBSDCN has satisfactory anti-noise performance under small sample conditions and noisy environments.

A Rotating Machinery Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Multi-Sensor Fusion and ECA-CNN

A Rotating Machinery Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Multi-Sensor Fusion and ECA-CNN

A new rotating machinery fault diagnosis method based on data driven and expert knowledge

A new rotating machinery fault diagnosis method based on data driven and expert knowledge

Rotating Machinery Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Improved Semisupervised Generative Confrontation Network

Error diagnosis and detection have become important in modern production due to the importance of spinning equipment. Artificial neural network pattern recognition methods are widely utilized in rotating equipment fault detection. These methods often need a large quantity of sample data to train the model; however, sample data (especially fault samples) are uncommon in engineering. Preliminary work focuses on dimensionality reduction for big data sets using semisupervised methods. The rotary machine’s polar coordinate signal is used to build a GAN network structure. ANN and tiny samples are utilized to identify DCGAN model flaws. The time-conditional generative adversarial network is proposed for one-dimensional vibration signal defect identification under data imbalance. Finally, auxiliary samples are gathered under similar conditions, and CCNs learn about target sample characteristics. Convolutional neural networks handle the problem of defect identification with small samples in different ways. In high-dimensional data sets with nonlinearities, low fault type recognition rates and fewer marked fault samples may be addressed using kernel semisupervised local Fisher discriminant analysis. The SELF method is used to build the optimum projection transformation matrix from the data set. The KNN classifier then learns low-dimensional features and detects an error kind. Because DCGAN training is unstable and the results are incorrect, an improved deep convolutional generative adversarial network (IDCGAN) is proposed. The tests indicate that the IDCGAN generates more real samples and solves the problem of defect identification in small samples. Time-conditional generation adversarial network data improvement lowers fault diagnosis effort and deep learning model complexity. The TCGAN and CNN are combined to provide superior fault detection under data imbalance. Modeling and experiments demonstrate TCGAN’s use and superiority.

Rotating Machinery Fault Diagnosis Method by Combining Time-Frequency Domain Features and CNN Knowledge Transfer

Aiming at the problem of fault diagnosis when there are only a few labeled samples in the large amount of data collected during the operation of rotating machinery, this paper proposes a fault diagnosis method based on knowledge transfer in deep learning. First, we describe the data collected during the operation as a two-dimensional image with both time and frequency-domain characteristics. Second, we transform the trained source domain model into a shallow model suitable for small samples in the target domain, and we train the shallow model with small samples with labels. Third, we input a large number of unlabeled samples into the shallow model, and the output result of the system is regarded as the label of the input sample. Fourth, we combine the original data and the data annotated by the shallow model to train the new deep CNN fault diagnosis model so as to realize the migration of knowledge from the expert system to the deep CNN. The newly built deep CNN model is used for the online fault diagnosis of rotating machinery. The FFCNN-SVM shallow model tagger method proposed in this paper compares the fault diagnosis results with other transfer learning methods at this stage, and its correct rate has been greatly improved. This method provides new ideas for future fault diagnosis under small samples.

Fault diagnosis based on SPBO-SDAE and transformer neural network for rotating machinery

Fault diagnosis for rotating machinery requires both high diagnosis accuracy and time efficiency. A rotating machinery fault diagnosis method based on intelligent feature self-extraction and transformer neural network is proposed. Firstly, the proposed method employs the student psychology based optimization (SPBO) algorithm to adaptively select hyper parameters, including the number of hidden layer nodes, sparsity coefficient and input data zeroing ratio, of the denoising auto encoder (DAE) network to determine the optimal structure of the stacked denoising auto encoders (SDAE) network. Secondly, the optimized SPBO-SDAE network is used to extract features from high-dimensional original data layer by layer. On this basis, the weight parameters of self-extracted features of SPBO-SDAE network are optimized through the self-attention mechanism of transformer deep neural network. The target features are retained, and the redundant features are filtered. Finally, in order to further validate the performance of the proposed model in the complex conditions, by adding Gaussian noise to the original data, the diagnosis performance of the proposed method is verified through four open data sets. The simulation results indicate that compared with the existing common shallow learning and deep learning methods, the proposed method has great advantages in generalization performance, fault diagnosis accuracy and time efficiency.

Rotating machinery fault diagnosis based on multivariate multiscale fuzzy distribution entropy and Fisher score

With evaluating the randomness and the nonlinear dynamic change of time sequence effectively, multiscale fuzzy distribution entropy (MFDE) is proposed to extract fault features from vibration signal. However, it is unsuitable for multivariate signals, which contain more abundant fault information. Through changing the coarse-grained and calculation process of MFDE, a novel entropy named as multivariate multiscale fuzzy distribution entropy (MMFDE) is proposed, which not only has the characteristics of MFDE, but also considers the within- and cross-channel correlations. By applying MMFDE to two kinds of simulation signals, the results show the proposed entropy is stable and reliable. A novel fault diagnosis method for rotating machinery is proposed by extracting fault features with MMFDE, selecting sensitive ones with Fisher score (FS), and identifying working state with support vector machine (SVM). Two experiments show the better diagnosis performance of the proposed rotating machinery fault diagnosis method than the related methods with the accuracy of 98.95% and 96.80% respectively.

A Novel Rotating Machinery Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Adaptive Deep Belief Network Structure and Dynamic Learning Rate Under Variable Working Conditions

With the development of modern industries, the working environment of rotating machinery has become increasingly complicated. Therefore, it is very meaningful to accurately identify the type of equipment failure under variable operating conditions. This paper presents a rotating machinery fault diagnosis method based on dynamic learning rate deep belief network (DBN) with adaptive structure (PSO-DDBN). Firstly, the wavelet packet energy entropy principle was used to obtain the characteristic matrix of the original data, and then the characteristics of the data under variable conditions were distinguished. Secondly, in order to adjust the structure of DBN, the loss function of DBN was used to construct the convergence function in particle swarm optimization (PSO) adaptive process. The dynamic learning rate strategy was applied to the training process of the network. The network gradient value in each iteration was recorded and the dynamic learning rate function was constructed to achieve the purpose of dynamically adjusting the network learning rate and making the network convergence faster and more stable. Then, the performance of PSO-DDBN was verified by the data of bearing and gearbox under variable conditions. Finally, other intelligent diagnosis algorithms were compared with this method, and the results showed that this method had better universality and fault classification ability.

Research on Rotating Machinery Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Energy Spectrum Matrix and Adaptive Convolutional Neural Network

Traditional intelligent fault diagnosis methods focus on distinguishing different fault modes, but ignore the deterioration of fault severity. This paper proposes a new two-stage hierarchical convolutional neural network for fault diagnosis of rotating machinery bearings. The failure mode and failure severity are modeled as a hierarchical structure. First, the original vibration signal is transformed into an energy spectrum matrix containing fault-related information through wavelet packet decomposition. Secondly, in the model training method, an adaptive learning rate dynamic adjustment strategy is further proposed, which adaptively extracts robust features from the spectrum matrix for fault mode and severity diagnosis. To verify the effectiveness of the method, the bearing fault data was collected using a rotating machine test bench. On this basis, the diagnostic accuracy, convergence performance and robustness of the model under different signal-to-noise ratios and variable load environments are evaluated, and the feature learning ability of the method is verified by visual analysis. Experimental results show that this method has achieved satisfactory results in both fault pattern recognition and fault severity evaluation, and is superior to other machine learning and deep learning methods.

Generalized sparse filtering for rotating machinery fault diagnosis

This paper develops generalized sparse filtering (GSF) by applying general norm normalization to improve the feature learning ability. A rotating machinery fault diagnosis method is then developed by combining the GSF and softmax regression. A rolling bearing dataset is applied to validate the performance of the developed method. The influences of normalization parameters on the diagnostic performance are investigated in detail, and thus, the best parameter combinations are determined based on the diagnostic accuracy and computing time. A planetary gearbox dataset is also applied to further validate the diagnostic performance on rotating machinery. Finally, the mechanism of the GSF is explained using a simple example. The results show that the GSF has a more powerful feature learning capacity than standard sparse filtering, and the developed method can obtain excellent diagnostic performance. Two variants of the developed method are recommended for the rotating machinery fault diagnosis.

Unsupervised rotating machinery fault diagnosis method based on integrated SAE–DBN and a binary processor

In recent years, deep learning based diagnostic approaches have become more attractive. However, most of these methods are supervised diagnostic approaches. Developing a supervised diagnostic model requires a large number of labeled training data. And it is time consuming and labor intensive to obtain labeled data for a variety of systems and working conditions. Therefore, an unsupervised diagnostic model that does not require labeled training data is more desirable. This paper proposes an unsupervised diagnostic model by integrating a sparse autoencoder, a deep belief network, and a binary processor. In comparison with the existing unsupervised methods, the proposed method does not need to perform statistical features extraction, and directly uses the normalized frequency domain signals as the inputs. Moreover, in the proposed diagnostic model, the input data is passed through layer by layer without fine-tuning, which is completely unsupervised process. The proposed methods have been validated with bearing fault datasets and gear pitting fault datasets. The validation results show that the proposed method has a higher accuracy for both bearing and gear pitting fault diagnosis.

A rotating machinery fault diagnosis method based on multi-scale dimensionless indicators and random forests

Fault diagnosis methods based on dimensionless indicators have long been studied for rotating machinery. However, traditional dimensionless indicators frequently suffer a low accuracy of fault diagnosis for nonlinear and non-stationary dynamic signals of rotating machinery. In this paper, we propose an effective fault diagnosis method based on multi-scale dimensionless indicator (MSDI) and random forests. In the proposed method, the real-time vibration signals are first processed by the variational mode decomposition and then six types of MSDI are constructed based on the decomposed signals. Through utilizing the Fisher criterion, several top ranked MSDIs are selected as fault features. Based on the selected MSDIs, the random forests model is applied to determine fault types. To verify the superiority of the proposed method, several experiments on fault diagnosis are conducted on a centrifugal multi-level impeller blower. The results demonstrate that the proposed method can successfully identify different fault types and the average accuracy can reach 95.58%. In contrast with traditional dimensionless indicators based methods, the proposed method can improve the fault diagnosis accuracy by 7.25% and outperforms other techniques such as back propagation neural network, support vector machine and extreme learning machine. These results indicate that the MSDI can effectively solve the deficiency of the traditional dimensionless indicator, and has stronger distinguishing ability for the fault types.