Deep Learning-Based Partial Domain Adaptation Method on Intelligent Machinery Fault Diagnostics

In the past years, deep learning-based machinery fault diagnosis methods have been successfully developed, and the basic diagnostic problems have been well addressed where the training and testing data are collected under the same operating conditions. When the training and testing data are from different distributions, domain adaptation approaches have been introduced. However, the existing methods generally assume the availability of the target-domain data in all the health conditions during training, which is not in accordance with the real industrial scenarios. This article proposes a deep learning-based fault diagnosis method to address the partial domain adaptation problems, where the unsupervised target-domain training data do not cover the full machine health state label space. The conditional data alignment and unsupervised prediction consistency schemes are proposed to achieve partial domain adaptation. The experimental results on two rotating machinery datasets suggest the proposed method offers a promising tool for this practical industrial problem.