A novel subdomain adaptive intelligent fault diagnosis method based on multiscale adaptive residual networks

Abstract Traditional fault diagnosis methods may not capture key information during feature extraction due to the large distribution difference under different working conditions, which can result in poor accuracy of the diagnostic model. To address this issue, a subdomain adaptive bearing fault identification method guided by the local maximal mean difference (LMMD) under the multiscale adaptive residual network is proposed in this paper. The bearing vibration signals are preprocessed by wavelet convolution and wide convolution to generate initial features. Then, the multi-scale adaptive residual network is used to adjust the feature weights of different scales and extract richer feature information. To reduce the intra-class distribution difference, the LMMD is employed. Additionally, local interclass maximum mean difference (LIMMD) is used to increase the inter-class difference, preventing misclassification of samples from different classes due to their close proximity and achieving sub-domain distribution alignment. The fault diagnosis performance of the domain distance metric model guided by LMMD and LIMMD under the multiscale adaptive residual network is verified through two different bearing model validation experiments.