An intelligent compound fault diagnosis method using generalized zero-shot model of bearing

Abstract Compound fault occurrence has been unpredictable, especially in industrial scenarios where it is difficult to collect a large number of labeled samples for compound fault. Based on this, this paper proposes a generative generalized zero-shot learning (GZSL) model aimed at synthesizing compound fault features through training with single fault samples. These synthesized features are then used for the recognition of compound fault. Firstly, in order to construct an accurate and effective semantic vector, the semantic generation module and discriminator are utilized to generate the semantics of compound fault. Secondly, a feature extraction module based on CNN is designed to extract various fault features from the two-dimensional time-frequency diagram. Finally, a fault semantic matching module is designed to match the feature vectors of compound faults with the generated fault semantic vectors. This enables the identification of unseen compound fault by computing their maximum similarity. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieved H scores of 75.83 and 69.24 on two real fault datasets, ensuring the correct classification of compound fault to the greatest extent possible.