RUL prediction of rolling bearings based on adaptive variational mode decomposition and double-discriminator conditional CycleGAN

To accurately evaluate the remaining life (RUL) of rolling bearings under small sample conditions and strong noise interference, a RUL prediction scheme using adaptive variational mode decomposition (VMD) and double-discriminator conditional CycleGAN (DD-cCycleGAN) is put forward. Combining chimp optimization algorithm (ChOA) with VMD, an adaptive VMD algorithm based on ChOA is presented, which selects effective mode components for reconstruction and reduces interference from strong background noise. A DD-cCycleGAN is developed to generate new samples which not only retain sample information of source domain, but also resemble samples of target one. A LSTM network after training is utilized to predict the bearing RUL in test samples. The performance of this scheme was validated by using the XJTU-SY bearing test dataset. The comparison analyses demonstrate this scheme has strong noise resistance and high accuracy.