Tool condition monitoring (TCM) is of great importance for improving the manufacturing efficiency and surface quality of workpieces. Data-driven machine learning methods are widely used in TCM and have achieved many good results. However, in actual industrial scenes, labeled data are not available in time in the target domain that significantly affect the performance of data-driven methods. To overcome this problem, a new TCM method combining the Markov transition field (MTF) and the deep domain adaptation network (DDAN) is proposed. A few vibration signals collected in the TCM experiments were represented in 2D images through MTF to enrich the features of the raw signals. The transferred ResNet50 was used to extract deep features of these 2D images. DDAN was employed to extract deep domain-invariant features between the source and target domains, in which the maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) is applied to measure the distance between two different distributions. TCM experiments show that the proposed method significantly outperforms the other three benchmark methods and is more robust under varying working conditions.
Accurate tool condition monitoring (TCM) is important for the development and upgrading of the manufacturing industry. Recently, machine-learning (ML) models have been widely used in the field of TCM with many favorable results. Nevertheless, in the actual industrial scenario, only a few samples are available for model training due to the cost of experiments, which significantly affects the performance of ML models. A time-series dimension expansion and transfer learning (TL) method is developed to boost the performance of TCM for small samples. First, a time-frequency Markov transition field (TFMTF) is proposed to encode the cutting force signal in the cutting process to two-dimensional images. Then, a modified TL network is established to learn and classify tool conditions under small samples. The performance of the proposed TFMTF-TL method is demonstrated by the benchmark PHM 2010 TCM dataset. The results show the proposed method effectively obtains superior classification accuracies for small samples and outperforms other four benchmark methods.
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