Intelligent fault diagnosis of roller bearing based on dual-flow convolutional neural network

Deep learning (DL) has inaugurated new approaches to implement fault diagnosis of roller bearings, which is essential to deal with the current industrial big data era. Unfortunately, many existing deep learning models, particularly convolutional neural network (CNN) models, have the following drawbacks. Single-channel convolution neural network in pooling layer has the problem of data loss. The feature information extracted by CNN is not integrated due to lack of feature learning ability, which will induce unsatisfactory diagnostic results and poor generalization ability. To deal with the above issues, a dual-flow convolutional neural network (DFCNN) is proposed for intelligent diagnosis the faults of roller bearings. The multi-channel convolutional neural network is used for feature extraction to solve the problem of data loss in the pooling layer. More comprehensive fault features can be extracted by multiple feature fusion after the input of two dimensions. Network parameters are adjusted using model optimization. The proposed method is demonstrated by the bearing experiment and collected vibration data including different types of faults. The results show that the accuracy rate is more superior than other six different neural network, and it is suitable for roller bearing fault diagnosis.