Early Fault Diagnosis of Rolling Bearings Based on Improved Residual Network
In recent years,bearing fault diagnosis with residual networks has achieved certain results.But traditional residual networks can only perform bottom-up one-way feature extraction.If the current layer losses useful information in the signal,the subsequent layers can't compensate for the lost information.Especially in early fault diagnosis of bearings,fault features are easily masked by noise.So how to use residual networks to fully extract early fault features is an urgent problem.This article proposes a new residual network with dense connection mechanism(DRN).In DRN,each hidden layer establishes a directed connection with the input data,and through channel cascade algorithms,the features are reconstructed with the input data and hidden layers.Thereby DRN can repair the lost information and obtain more complete fault features.Experiments are conducted on the XJTU-SY datasets,and the effectiveness of DRN is demonstrated through ablation experi-ments.Compared with traditional methods,when the signal-to-noise ratio reaches 0dB,-1dB,-2dB,-3dB,-4dB,the accuracies of DRN keep over 95%.This indicates that the method has good feature extraction capabilities.