Fault diagnosis of rolling bearing under complex working conditions based on time-frequency joint feature extraction-deep learning

The same independent distribution is not obeyed for the data collected under complex working conditions such as time-varying speed or loading, and the fault characteristic information is insufficient, resulting in low accuracy by using traditional methods. To solve the above problem, a fault diagnosis method based on time-frequency joint feature extraction combined with deep learning is proposed. Firstly, the original vibration signal is processed by variational mode decomposition (VMD) to obtain several intrinsic mode functions (IMFs), then the sensitive components are selected by calculating the steepness values of each IMF. Subsequently, the characteristic features of the selected sensitive component in time-domain, frequency-domain and time-frequency domain are calculated to form the time-frequency joint feature. The sparse attention mechanism (SAM) is combined with the advantages of recurrent neural network (RNN) and convolutional neural network (CNN) to form a hybrid deep learning model (SAM-RNN-DCNN). Finally, the time-frequency joint features are combined with the hybrid model for fault diagnosis. Experimental verifications are carried out by using data sets under variable rotational speed, variable load and strong noise interference, and the analysis results show that the proposed method has high diagnostic accuracy, good diagnostic performance and robustness under complex working conditions.