A comprehensive review on convolutional neural network in machine fault diagnosis

Lack of typical fault samples remains a huge challenge for intelligent fault diagnosis of gearbox. In this paper, a novel approach named deep transfer multi-wavelet auto-encoder is presented for gearbox intelligent fault diagnosis with few training samples. Firstly, new-type deep multi-wavelet auto-encoder is designed for learning important features of the collected vibration signals of gearbox. Secondly, high-quality auxiliary samples are selected based on similarity measure to well pre-train a source model sharing similar characteristics with the target domain. Thirdly, parameter knowledge acquired from the source model is transferred to target model using very few target training samples. Transfer diagnosis cases for different fault severities and compound faults of gearbox confirm the feasibility of the proposed approach even if the working conditions have significant changes.

Deep transfer multi-wavelet auto-encoder for intelligent fault diagnosis of gearbox with few target training samples

An adaptive deep transfer learning method for bearing fault diagnosis

Automatic and reliable fault diagnosis of rotating machinery cross working conditions is of practical importance. For this purpose, ensemble transfer convolutional neural networks (CNNs) driven by multi-channel signals are proposed in this paper. Firstly, a series of source CNNs modified with stochastic pooling and Leaky rectified linear unit (LReLU) are pre-trained using multi-channel signals. Secondly, the learned parameter knowledge of each individual source CNN is transferred to initialize the corresponding target CNN which is then fine-tuned by a few target training samples. Finally, a new decision fusion strategy is designed to flexibly fuse each individual target CNN to obtain the comprehensive result. The proposed method is used to analyze multi-channel signals measured from rotating machinery. The comparison result shows the superiorities of the proposed method over the existing deep transfer learning methods.

Ensemble transfer CNNs driven by multi-channel signals for fault diagnosis of rotating machinery cross working conditions

Recent progress on intelligent fault diagnosis (IFD) has greatly depended on deep representation learning and plenty of labeled data. However, machines often operate with various working conditions, or the target task has different distributions with the collected data used for training (the domain shift problem). Besides, the newly collected test data in the target domain are usually unlabeled, leading to unsupervised deep transfer learning (UDTL)-based IFD problem. Although it has achieved huge development, a standard and open source code framework and a comparative study for UDTL-based IFD are not yet established. In this article, we construct a new taxonomy and perform a comprehensive review of UDTL-based IFD according to different tasks. Comparative analysis of some typical methods and datasets reveals some open and essential issues in UDTL-based IFD, which is rarely studied, including transferability of features, the influence of backbones, negative transfer, physical priors, and so on. To emphasize the importance and reproducibility of UDTL-based IFD, the whole test framework will be released to the research community to facilitate future research. In summary, the released framework and comparative study can serve as an extended interface and basic results to carry out new studies on UDTL-based IFD. The code framework is available at https://github.com/ZhaoZhibin/UDTL .

Shi-sheng Zhong

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