An Intelligent Diagnosis Method for Bearing Faults with Multiple Image Inputs and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

Bearings are key transmission parts that are extensively used in rolling mechanical and equipment. Bearing failures can affect the regular running of machines, in serious cases, can cause enormous losses in economy and personnel casualties. Therefore, it is important to implement the research of diagnosing bearing faults. In this paper, a bearing faults diagnosis method was developed based on multiple image inputs and deep convolutional neural network. Firstly, the 1-Dvibration signal is transformed into three different types of two-dimensional images: time-frequency image, vibration grayscale image and symmetry dot pattern image, respectively. Enter them into multiple DCNNs separately. Finally, Finally, the nonlinear features of multiple DCNN outputs are fused and classified to achieve bearing fault diagnostics. The experimental results indicate that the diagnosis accuracy of this proposed method is 98.8%, it can extract the fault features of vibration samples well, and it is an effective bearing fault diagnosis methodology.