An Unsupervised Intelligent Fault Diagnosis System Based on Feature Transfer

With the booming development of intelligent manufacturing in modern industry, intelligent fault diagnosis systems have become a necessity to equipment and machine, which have attracted many researchers’ attention. However, due to the requirements of enough labeled data for most of the current approaches, it is difficult to implement them in real industrial scenarios. In this paper, an unsupervised intelligent fault diagnosis system based on feature transfer is constructed to extract the historical labeled data of the source domain, using feature transfer to facilitate the fault diagnosis of the target domain. The original feature set is acquired by EEMD time-frequency analysis. Then, the transfer component analysis algorithm is adopted to minimize the distance between the marginal distributions of the source and target domains which reduces the discrepancy of features between the different domains. Finally, SVM is used in multiclassification to identify different categories of faults. The performance of the fault diagnosis system under different loads is tested on the CWRU bearing data set, and the experiments show that the proposed system could effectively improve the recognition ability of unsupervised fault diagnosis.