A Generalised Intelligent Bearing Fault Diagnosis Model Based on a Two-Stage Approach

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This paper introduces a two-stage intelligent fault diagnosis model for rolling element bearings (REBs) aimed at overcoming the challenge of limited real-world vibration training data. In this study, bearing characteristic frequencies (BCFs) extracted from a novel hybrid method combining cepstrum pre-whitening (CPW) and high-pass filtering developed by the authors’ group are used as input features, and a two-stage approach is taken to develop an intelligent REB fault detect and diagnosis model. In the first stage, various machine learning (ML) methods, including support vector machine (SVM), multinomial logistic regressions (MLR), and artificial neural networks (ANN), are evaluated to identify faulty bearings from healthy ones. The best-performing ML model is selected for this stage. In the second stage, a similar evaluation is conducted to find the most suitable ML technique for bearing fault classification. The model is trained and validated using vibration data from an EU Clean Sky2 I2BS project (An EU Clean Sky 2 project ‘Integrated Intelligent Bearing Systems’ collaborated between Schaeffler Technologies and the University of Southampton. Safran Aero Engines was the topic manager for this project) and tested on datasets from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and the US Society for Machinery Failure Prevention Technology (MFPT). The results show that the two-stage model, using an SVM with a polynomial kernel function in Stage-1 and an ANN with one hidden layer and 0.05 dropout rate in Stage-2, can successfully detect bearing conditions in both test datasets and perform better than the results in literature without the requirement of further training. Compared with a single-stage model, the two-stage model also shows improved performance.

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Kiakojouri, A., Lu, Z., Mirring, P., Powrie, H., & Wang, L. (2024). A Generalised Intelligent Bearing Fault Diagnosis Model Based on a Two-Stage Approach. Machines, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.3390/machines12010077

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