Multidomain Feature Fusion Network for Fault Diagnosis of Rolling Machinery

Mechanical vibration constitutes a valuable cue for performing fault diagnosis as it is directly related to the transient regime of rolling machinery. This study establishes a multidomain feature fusion network (MFFN) to extract and fuse multidomain features through a novel multistream architecture. Three primary features are simultaneously extracted from the time, frequency, and time-frequency domains. Then, highly representative features are extracted via three convolutional branches in one- or two-dimensional spaces. A novel squeeze-connection-excitation (SCE) module is proposed to adaptively fuse features in the three domains. The advantage offered by the proposed method is that it can leverage cues from the raw vibration signal, resulting in accurate fault diagnosis. Experimental results comprehensively demonstrate and analyze the high accuracy and generalization achieved by this MFFN-based fault diagnosis method.