Construction of a Sensitive and Speed Invariant Gearbox Fault Diagnosis Model Using an Incorporated Utilizing Adaptive Noise Control and a Stacked Sparse Autoencoder-Based Deep Neural Network

Abstract

Gearbox fault diagnosis based on the analysis of vibration signals has been a major research topic for a few decades due to the advantages of vibration characteristics. Such characteristics are used for early fault detection to guarantee the enhanced safety of complex systems and their cost-effective operation. There exist many fault diagnosis models that have been developed for classifying various fault types in gearboxes. However, the classification results of the conventional fault classification models degrade when they are applied to gearbox systems with multi-level tooth cut gear (MTCG) faults operating under variable shaft speeds. These conditions cause difficulty in discriminating the gear fault types. Due to the improved computational capabilities of modern systems, the application of deep neural networks (DNNs) is getting popular in a variety of research fields, such as image and natural language processing. DNNs are capable of improving the classification results even when addressing complex problems such as diagnosing gearbox MTCG faults. In this research, an adaptive noise control (ANC) and a stacked sparse autoencoder–based deep neural network (SSA-DNN) are used to construct a sensitive fault diagnosis model that can diagnose a gearbox system with MTCG fault types under varying shaft rotation speeds, despite its complicatedness. An ANC is applied to gear vibration characteristics to remove a significant level of noise along the frequency spectrum of vibration signals to fix the most fault-informative components of each fault case. Next, the autoencoder learns the gear faults characteristic features from these fault-informative components to separate the fault types considered in this study. Furthermore, the implementation of the SSA-DNN is substituted for feature extraction, feature selection, and the classification processes in traditional fault diagnosis schemes by high-performance unity. The experimental results show that the proposed model outperforms conventional methodologies with higher classification accuracy.

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