Analysis method combining improved AE algorithm and signal reconstruction in mechanical faults

IntroductionFault diagnosis analysis of mechanical equipment is greatly significant for maintaining the production efficiency of enterprises. Traditional diagnostic methods have shortcomings in accuracy and robustness.MethodsTherefore, the study integrates variational autoencoders with long short-te...

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Main Author: Zhenhua Niu
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Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2025-07-01
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description IntroductionFault diagnosis analysis of mechanical equipment is greatly significant for maintaining the production efficiency of enterprises. Traditional diagnostic methods have shortcomings in accuracy and robustness.MethodsTherefore, the study integrates variational autoencoders with long short-term memory network models, enhances them using dropout methods, and proposes a hybrid diagnostic analysis model that combines improved autoencoder algorithms and signal reconstruction.ResultsThe experiment outcomes indicated that under the slow degradation mode of the bearing, the precision, recall, F1 score, and overall accuracy of the improved autoencoder model were 0.931, 0.933, 0.920, and 0.939, respectively, which were better than the pre-modified model. The fault diagnosis results showed that in the rapid degradation mode of the bearing, the research model discovered potential faults at 8,830 s, earlier than other models. The ablation experiment results showed that the precision, recall, F1 score, and overall accuracy of the enhanced study model using the dropout method were 0.83, 0.80, 0.82, and 0.99, respectively. Compared with the baseline model, the four indicators improved by 5.1%, 6.7%, 6.5%, and 5.3%, respectively. The memory usage test findings denoted that the average memory usage of the research model was less than 46%, which was better than the control model.DiscussionThe research promotes innovation and optimization of mechanical fault diagnosis technology, improves the accuracy and timeliness of fault diagnosis analysis models, and is of great significance for ensuring production safety, reducing maintenance costs, and improving enterprise economic benefits.
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spelling doaj-art-8ed03fbfa00b47969999f9fc87474f452025-08-20T03:32:22ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering2297-30792025-07-011110.3389/fmech.2025.16357411635741Analysis method combining improved AE algorithm and signal reconstruction in mechanical faultsZhenhua NiuIntroductionFault diagnosis analysis of mechanical equipment is greatly significant for maintaining the production efficiency of enterprises. Traditional diagnostic methods have shortcomings in accuracy and robustness.MethodsTherefore, the study integrates variational autoencoders with long short-term memory network models, enhances them using dropout methods, and proposes a hybrid diagnostic analysis model that combines improved autoencoder algorithms and signal reconstruction.ResultsThe experiment outcomes indicated that under the slow degradation mode of the bearing, the precision, recall, F1 score, and overall accuracy of the improved autoencoder model were 0.931, 0.933, 0.920, and 0.939, respectively, which were better than the pre-modified model. The fault diagnosis results showed that in the rapid degradation mode of the bearing, the research model discovered potential faults at 8,830 s, earlier than other models. The ablation experiment results showed that the precision, recall, F1 score, and overall accuracy of the enhanced study model using the dropout method were 0.83, 0.80, 0.82, and 0.99, respectively. Compared with the baseline model, the four indicators improved by 5.1%, 6.7%, 6.5%, and 5.3%, respectively. The memory usage test findings denoted that the average memory usage of the research model was less than 46%, which was better than the control model.DiscussionThe research promotes innovation and optimization of mechanical fault diagnosis technology, improves the accuracy and timeliness of fault diagnosis analysis models, and is of great significance for ensuring production safety, reducing maintenance costs, and improving enterprise economic benefits.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmech.2025.1635741/fullmechanical equipmentfault diagnosisauto encodersignal reconstructionLSTM
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Analysis method combining improved AE algorithm and signal reconstruction in mechanical faults
Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering
mechanical equipment
fault diagnosis
auto encoder
signal reconstruction
LSTM
title Analysis method combining improved AE algorithm and signal reconstruction in mechanical faults
title_full Analysis method combining improved AE algorithm and signal reconstruction in mechanical faults
title_fullStr Analysis method combining improved AE algorithm and signal reconstruction in mechanical faults
title_full_unstemmed Analysis method combining improved AE algorithm and signal reconstruction in mechanical faults
title_short Analysis method combining improved AE algorithm and signal reconstruction in mechanical faults
title_sort analysis method combining improved ae algorithm and signal reconstruction in mechanical faults
topic mechanical equipment
fault diagnosis
auto encoder
signal reconstruction
LSTM
url https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmech.2025.1635741/full
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