A Bearing Fault Diagnosis Method Based on a Residual Network and a Gated Recurrent Unit under Time-Varying Working Conditions

The diagnosis of bearing faults is an important guarantee for the healthy operation of mechanical equipment. Due to the time-varying working conditions of mechanical equipment, it is necessary to achieve bearing fault diagnosis under time-varying working conditions. However, the superposition of the...

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Main Authors: Zheng Wang, Xiaoyang Xu, Yu Zhang, Zhongyao Wang, Yuting Li, Zhidong Liu, Yuxi Zhang
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/15/6730
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author Zheng Wang
Xiaoyang Xu
Yu Zhang
Zhongyao Wang
Yuting Li
Zhidong Liu
Yuxi Zhang
author_facet Zheng Wang
Xiaoyang Xu
Yu Zhang
Zhongyao Wang
Yuting Li
Zhidong Liu
Yuxi Zhang
author_sort Zheng Wang
collection DOAJ
description The diagnosis of bearing faults is an important guarantee for the healthy operation of mechanical equipment. Due to the time-varying working conditions of mechanical equipment, it is necessary to achieve bearing fault diagnosis under time-varying working conditions. However, the superposition of the two-dimensional working conditions of speed and acceleration brings great difficulties to diagnosis via data-driven models. The long short-term memory (LSTM) model based on the infinitesimal method is an effective method to solve this problem, but its performance still has certain limitations. On this basis, this article proposes a model for fault diagnosis under time-varying operating conditions that combines a residual network model (ResNet) and a gate recurrent unit (model) (GRU). Firstly, the samples were segmented, and feature extraction was performed using ResNet. We then used GRU to process the information. Finally, the classification results were output through the output network. This model could ignore the influence of acceleration and achieve high fault diagnosis accuracy under time-varying working conditions. In addition, we used t-SNE to reduce the dimensionality of the features and analyzed the role of each layer in the model. Experiments showed that this method had a better performance compared with existing bearing fault diagnosis methods.
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spelling doaj.art-55645bfe437c42a18960b0515d0c03dc2023-11-18T23:33:42ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202023-07-012315673010.3390/s23156730A Bearing Fault Diagnosis Method Based on a Residual Network and a Gated Recurrent Unit under Time-Varying Working ConditionsZheng Wang0Xiaoyang Xu1Yu Zhang2Zhongyao Wang3Yuting Li4Zhidong Liu5Yuxi Zhang6School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan 250101, ChinaSchool of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan 250101, ChinaSchool of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan 250101, ChinaSchool of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan 250101, ChinaSchool of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan 250101, ChinaSchool of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan 250101, ChinaSchool of Management Engineering, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan 250101, ChinaThe diagnosis of bearing faults is an important guarantee for the healthy operation of mechanical equipment. Due to the time-varying working conditions of mechanical equipment, it is necessary to achieve bearing fault diagnosis under time-varying working conditions. However, the superposition of the two-dimensional working conditions of speed and acceleration brings great difficulties to diagnosis via data-driven models. The long short-term memory (LSTM) model based on the infinitesimal method is an effective method to solve this problem, but its performance still has certain limitations. On this basis, this article proposes a model for fault diagnosis under time-varying operating conditions that combines a residual network model (ResNet) and a gate recurrent unit (model) (GRU). Firstly, the samples were segmented, and feature extraction was performed using ResNet. We then used GRU to process the information. Finally, the classification results were output through the output network. This model could ignore the influence of acceleration and achieve high fault diagnosis accuracy under time-varying working conditions. In addition, we used t-SNE to reduce the dimensionality of the features and analyzed the role of each layer in the model. Experiments showed that this method had a better performance compared with existing bearing fault diagnosis methods.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/15/6730data-drivenfault diagnosisGRUResNettime-varying working condition
spellingShingle Zheng Wang
Xiaoyang Xu
Yu Zhang
Zhongyao Wang
Yuting Li
Zhidong Liu
Yuxi Zhang
A Bearing Fault Diagnosis Method Based on a Residual Network and a Gated Recurrent Unit under Time-Varying Working Conditions
Sensors
data-driven
fault diagnosis
GRU
ResNet
time-varying working condition
title A Bearing Fault Diagnosis Method Based on a Residual Network and a Gated Recurrent Unit under Time-Varying Working Conditions
title_full A Bearing Fault Diagnosis Method Based on a Residual Network and a Gated Recurrent Unit under Time-Varying Working Conditions
title_fullStr A Bearing Fault Diagnosis Method Based on a Residual Network and a Gated Recurrent Unit under Time-Varying Working Conditions
title_full_unstemmed A Bearing Fault Diagnosis Method Based on a Residual Network and a Gated Recurrent Unit under Time-Varying Working Conditions
title_short A Bearing Fault Diagnosis Method Based on a Residual Network and a Gated Recurrent Unit under Time-Varying Working Conditions
title_sort bearing fault diagnosis method based on a residual network and a gated recurrent unit under time varying working conditions
topic data-driven
fault diagnosis
GRU
ResNet
time-varying working condition
url https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/15/6730
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