journal article·2022-08-22Open access

SRMANet: Toward an Interpretable Neural Network with Multi-Attention Mechanism for Gearbox Fault Diagnosis

Siyuan Liu, Jinying Huang, Jiancheng Ma, Jia Luo

Applied Sciences· Volume 12· Issue 16

Abstract

Deep neural network (DNN), with the capacity for feature inference and nonlinear mapping, has demonstrated its effectiveness in end-to-end fault diagnosis. However, the intermediate learning process of the DNN architecture is invisible, making it an uninterpretable black-box model. In this paper, a stacked residual multi-attention network (SRMANet) is proposed as a means of feature extraction of vibration signals, and visualizing the model training process, designing Squeeze-excitation residual (SE-Res) blocks to obtain additive features with minimal redundancy and sparsity. This study recommends the use of the attention fusion unit to ensure the interpretability of the model and ultimately to obtain representative features. By feeding the output gradient of the attention layer back to the original signal, the key feature components in the time domain signal can be effectively captured. Finally, the interpretability, identification accuracy and adaptability of the model under different operating conditions are verified on 12 different fault tasks in the planetary gearbox.
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Research context

OpenAlex topics: Machine Fault Diagnosis Techniques · Fault Detection and Control Systems · Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection

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Affiliations

School of Data Science and Technology, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China

School of Mechanical Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China

School of Energy and Power Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China

Funding

Young Science Foundation of Shanxi province, China · Innovation Project of Postgraduate Education in Shanxi Province in 2020, China · Key R&D program of Shanxi Province (International Cooperation) · Natural Science Foundation of Shanxi Province · Research Project Supported by Shanxi Scholarship Council of China

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