An Intelligent Diagnostic Method for Multisource Coupling Faults of Complex Mechanical Systems

In the actual environment, there are difficult points such as complicated mechanical system fault types, random fault locations, and inconspicuous minor fault signals, which make it difficult to accurately diagnose faults. This paper proposes a new method for fault diagnosis of an adaptive multisensor bearing-gear system based on GAF/MTF (Gramian angular fields and Markov transition fields) and ResNet (deep residual network). First, we establish a multisensor signal acquisition system to monitor the running signals of the bearing-gearbox composite test bench in real time. Faulty parts include multiple types of composite faults of different sizes, different fault types, and different transmission stages. Second, based on GAF/MTFs, the multichannel timing signal collected by using the acquisition system is converted into multichannel pictures, and pictures are fused and compressed into three-channel pictures. Finally, we input these pictures into ResNet for fault diagnosis. The experimental results show that the GAF/MTF-ResNet model has a recognition accuracy of 72.14% for a total of 520 classification label test sets under different motor speeds, different sampling times, and different types of faults. Among them, the accuracy of the motor speed and sampling time is close to 100%, and the accuracy of gearbox failure and bearing failure is 75.25% and 88.97%, respectively. This shows that the method provides new ideas for the composite fault diagnosis of mechanical systems under different working conditions and different types of faults and has theoretical guiding significance.

Automated summary

This paper proposes a new method for fault diagnosis of an adaptive multisensor bearing-gear system based on GAF/MTF and ResNet. The method converts the running signals into multi-channel pictures and uses ResNet for fault diagnosis. Experimental results show that the method has high recognition accuracy under different working conditions and different fault types.