Cross-Domain Open-Set Machinery Fault Diagnosis Based on Adversarial Network With Multiple Auxiliary Classifiers

Cross-domain fault diagnosis methods based on transfer learning attempt to leverage knowledge from a domain with sufficient labeled samples to a different but related domain with few or even nonlabeled samples. These methods have been widely investigated in the past years. Notwithstanding the efficacy, most existing approaches assume that the label spaces of training and testing data are the same. However, this assumption is not practical in actual applications because new fault category usually happens in the testing stage. A cross-domain open-set transfer diagnosis method is presented in this article to manage the aforementioned problem. Domain adversarial model is employed to discriminate known from unknown target instances. Moreover, multiple auxiliary classifiers introduce a weighting module to evaluate the distinguishing domain knowledge to provide target instances with representative weights. The new adversarial domain adaptation network with diverse supplementary classifiers can effectively identify the unknown and known fault categories in the target domain and bridge the domain shift between the common fault category of the source and target domain. Experiments on two bearing datasets show the effectiveness and advantage of the proposed method.