Fault Diagnosis under Variable Working Conditions Based on STFT and Transfer Deep Residual Network

Fault diagnosis plays a very important role in ensuring the safe and reliable operations of machines. Currently, the deep learning-based fault diagnosis is attracting increasing attention. However, fault diagnosis under variable working conditions has been a significant challenge due to the domain d...

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Main Authors: Yan Du, Aiming Wang, Shuai Wang, Baomei He, Guoying Meng
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020-01-01
Series:Shock and Vibration
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/1274380
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Aiming Wang
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description Fault diagnosis plays a very important role in ensuring the safe and reliable operations of machines. Currently, the deep learning-based fault diagnosis is attracting increasing attention. However, fault diagnosis under variable working conditions has been a significant challenge due to the domain discrepancy problem. This problem is also unavoidable in deep learning-based fault diagnosis methods. This paper contributes to the ongoing investigation by proposing a new approach for the fault diagnosis under variable working conditions based on STFT and transfer deep residual network (TDRN). The STFT was employed to convert vibration signal to time-frequency image as the input of the TDRN. To address the domain discrepancy problem, the TDRN was developed in this paper. Unlike traditional deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) methods, by combining with transfer learning, the TDRN can make a bridge between two different working conditions, thereby using the knowledge learned from a working condition to achieve a high classification accuracy in another working condition. Moreover, since the residual learning is introducing, the TDRN can overcome the problems of training difficulty and performance degradation existing in traditional DCNN methods, thus further improving the classification accuracy. Experiments are conducted on the popular CWRU bearing dataset to validate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed approach. The results show that the developed TDRN outperforms those methods without transfer learning and/or residual learning in terms of the accuracy and feature learning ability for the fault diagnosis under variable working conditions.
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spelling doaj-art-232db77176bf48eab5d8012585dd3b682025-08-20T02:04:35ZengWileyShock and Vibration1070-96221875-92032020-01-01202010.1155/2020/12743801274380Fault Diagnosis under Variable Working Conditions Based on STFT and Transfer Deep Residual NetworkYan Du0Aiming Wang1Shuai Wang2Baomei He3Guoying Meng4School of Mechanical Electronic and Information Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing 100083, ChinaSchool of Mechanical Electronic and Information Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing 100083, ChinaSchool of Mechanical Electronic and Information Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing 100083, ChinaGraduate School, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing 100083, ChinaSchool of Mechanical Electronic and Information Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing 100083, ChinaFault diagnosis plays a very important role in ensuring the safe and reliable operations of machines. Currently, the deep learning-based fault diagnosis is attracting increasing attention. However, fault diagnosis under variable working conditions has been a significant challenge due to the domain discrepancy problem. This problem is also unavoidable in deep learning-based fault diagnosis methods. This paper contributes to the ongoing investigation by proposing a new approach for the fault diagnosis under variable working conditions based on STFT and transfer deep residual network (TDRN). The STFT was employed to convert vibration signal to time-frequency image as the input of the TDRN. To address the domain discrepancy problem, the TDRN was developed in this paper. Unlike traditional deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) methods, by combining with transfer learning, the TDRN can make a bridge between two different working conditions, thereby using the knowledge learned from a working condition to achieve a high classification accuracy in another working condition. Moreover, since the residual learning is introducing, the TDRN can overcome the problems of training difficulty and performance degradation existing in traditional DCNN methods, thus further improving the classification accuracy. Experiments are conducted on the popular CWRU bearing dataset to validate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed approach. The results show that the developed TDRN outperforms those methods without transfer learning and/or residual learning in terms of the accuracy and feature learning ability for the fault diagnosis under variable working conditions.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/1274380
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title Fault Diagnosis under Variable Working Conditions Based on STFT and Transfer Deep Residual Network
title_full Fault Diagnosis under Variable Working Conditions Based on STFT and Transfer Deep Residual Network
title_fullStr Fault Diagnosis under Variable Working Conditions Based on STFT and Transfer Deep Residual Network
title_full_unstemmed Fault Diagnosis under Variable Working Conditions Based on STFT and Transfer Deep Residual Network
title_short Fault Diagnosis under Variable Working Conditions Based on STFT and Transfer Deep Residual Network
title_sort fault diagnosis under variable working conditions based on stft and transfer deep residual network
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