A Real-Time Fault Diagnosis Method for Multi-Source Heterogeneous Information Fusion Based on Two-Level Transfer Learning

A convolutional neural network can extract features from high-dimensional data, but the convolution operation has a high time complexity and requires a large amount of computation. For equipment with a high sampling frequency, fault diagnosis methods based on convolutional neural networks cannot meet the requirements of online fault diagnosis. To solve this problem, this study proposes a fault diagnosis method for multi-source heterogeneous information fusion based on two-level transfer learning. This method aims to fully utilize multi-source heterogeneous information and external domain data, construct a two-level transfer mechanism to fuse multi-source heterogeneous information, avoid convolutional operations, and achieve real-time fault diagnosis. Its main work is to build a feature extraction network model of screenshots, design a mechanism for transfer from the feature extraction model using screenshots to the deep learning model using one-dimensional sequence signals, and complete the transfer from a convolutional neural network to a deep neural network. After two-level transfer, the fault diagnosis model not only integrates the characteristics of one-dimensional sequence signals and screenshots but also avoids convolution operations and has a low time complexity. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified using a gearbox dataset and a bearing dataset.