Multiscale convolutional neural network and decision fusion for rolling bearing fault diagnosis

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to achieve an accurate intelligent fault diagnosis of rolling bearing.

Design/methodology/approach

To extract deep features of the original vibration signal and improve the generalization ability and robustness of the fault diagnosis model, this paper proposes a fault diagnosis method of rolling bearing based on multiscale convolutional neural network (MCNN) and decision fusion. The original vibration signals are normalized and matrixed to form grayscale image samples. In addition, multiscale samples can be achieved by convoluting these samples with different convolution kernels. Subsequently, MCNN is constructed for fault diagnosis. The results of MCNN are put into a data fusion model to obtain comprehensive fault diagnosis results.

Findings

The bearing data sets with multiple multivariate time series are used to testify the effectiveness of the proposed method. The proposed model can achieve 99.8% accuracy of fault diagnosis. Based on MCNN and decision fusion, the accuracy can be improved by 0.7%–3.4% compared with other models.

Originality/value

The proposed model can extract deep general features of vibration signals by MCNN and obtained robust fault diagnosis results based on the decision fusion model. For a long time series of vibration signals with noise, the proposed model can still achieve accurate fault diagnosis.

Citation

Lv, D., Wang, H. and Che, C. (2021), "Multiscale convolutional neural network and decision fusion for rolling bearing fault diagnosis", Industrial Lubrication and Tribology, Vol. 73 No. 3, pp. 516-522. https://doi.org/10.1108/ILT-09-2020-0335