Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Milling Cutters Based on CNN-BiLSTM and Attention Mechanism

Machining tools are a critical component in machine manufacturing, the life cycle of which is an asymmetrical process. Extracting and modeling the tool life variation features is very significant for accurately predicting the tool’s remaining useful life (RUL), and it is vital to ensure product reli...

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Main Authors: Lei Nie, Lvfan Zhang, Shiyi Xu, Wentao Cai, Haoming Yang
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-10-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/11/2243
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author Lei Nie
Lvfan Zhang
Shiyi Xu
Wentao Cai
Haoming Yang
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Lvfan Zhang
Shiyi Xu
Wentao Cai
Haoming Yang
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description Machining tools are a critical component in machine manufacturing, the life cycle of which is an asymmetrical process. Extracting and modeling the tool life variation features is very significant for accurately predicting the tool’s remaining useful life (RUL), and it is vital to ensure product reliability. In this study, based on convolutional neural network (CNN) and bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM), a tool wear evolution and RUL prediction method by combining CNN-BiLSTM and attention mechanism is proposed. The powerful CNN is applied to directly process the sensor-monitored data and extract local feature information; the BiLSTM neural network is used to adaptively extract temporal features; the attention mechanism can selectively study the important degradation features and extract the tool wear status information. By evaluating the performance and generalization ability of the proposed method under different working conditions, two datasets are applied for experiments, and the proposed method outperforms the traditional method in terms of prediction accuracy.
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spelling doaj.art-a810730aecd54e07ba7ffe7115d2ed5d2023-11-24T07:07:11ZengMDPI AGSymmetry2073-89942022-10-011411224310.3390/sym14112243Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Milling Cutters Based on CNN-BiLSTM and Attention MechanismLei Nie0Lvfan Zhang1Shiyi Xu2Wentao Cai3Haoming Yang4Hubei Key Laboratory of Modern Manufacturing Quantity Engineering, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan 430068, ChinaHubei Key Laboratory of Modern Manufacturing Quantity Engineering, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan 430068, ChinaHubei Key Laboratory of Modern Manufacturing Quantity Engineering, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan 430068, ChinaHubei Key Laboratory of Modern Manufacturing Quantity Engineering, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan 430068, ChinaHubei Key Laboratory of Modern Manufacturing Quantity Engineering, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan 430068, ChinaMachining tools are a critical component in machine manufacturing, the life cycle of which is an asymmetrical process. Extracting and modeling the tool life variation features is very significant for accurately predicting the tool’s remaining useful life (RUL), and it is vital to ensure product reliability. In this study, based on convolutional neural network (CNN) and bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM), a tool wear evolution and RUL prediction method by combining CNN-BiLSTM and attention mechanism is proposed. The powerful CNN is applied to directly process the sensor-monitored data and extract local feature information; the BiLSTM neural network is used to adaptively extract temporal features; the attention mechanism can selectively study the important degradation features and extract the tool wear status information. By evaluating the performance and generalization ability of the proposed method under different working conditions, two datasets are applied for experiments, and the proposed method outperforms the traditional method in terms of prediction accuracy.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/11/2243milling cuttersRULCNNBiLSTMattention mechanism
spellingShingle Lei Nie
Lvfan Zhang
Shiyi Xu
Wentao Cai
Haoming Yang
Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Milling Cutters Based on CNN-BiLSTM and Attention Mechanism
Symmetry
milling cutters
RUL
CNN
BiLSTM
attention mechanism
title Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Milling Cutters Based on CNN-BiLSTM and Attention Mechanism
title_full Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Milling Cutters Based on CNN-BiLSTM and Attention Mechanism
title_fullStr Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Milling Cutters Based on CNN-BiLSTM and Attention Mechanism
title_full_unstemmed Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Milling Cutters Based on CNN-BiLSTM and Attention Mechanism
title_short Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Milling Cutters Based on CNN-BiLSTM and Attention Mechanism
title_sort remaining useful life prediction of milling cutters based on cnn bilstm and attention mechanism
topic milling cutters
RUL
CNN
BiLSTM
attention mechanism
url https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/11/2243
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