Sequential Network with Residual Neural Network for Rotatory Machine Remaining Useful Life Prediction Using Deep Transfer Learning

Abstract EN

Deep learning has a strong feature learning ability, which has proved its effectiveness in fault prediction and remaining useful life prediction of rotatory machine.

However, training a deep network from scratch requires a large amount of training data and is time-consuming.

In the practical model training process, it is difficult for the deep model to converge when the parameter initialization is inappropriate, which results in poor prediction performance.

In this paper, a novel deep learning framework is proposed to predict the remaining useful life of rotatory machine with high accuracy.

Firstly, model parameters and feature learning ability of the pretrained model are transferred to the new network by means of transfer learning to achieve reasonable initialization.

Then, the specific sensor signals are converted to RGB image as the specific task data to fine-tune the parameters of the high-level network structure.

The features extracted from the pretrained network are the input into the Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory to obtain the RUL prediction results.

The ability of LSTM to model sequence signals and the dynamic learning ability of bidirectional propagation to time information contribute to accurate RUL prediction.

Finally, the deep model proposed in this paper is tested on the sensor signal dataset of bearing and gearbox.

The high accuracy prediction results show the superiority of the transfer learning-based sequential network in RUL prediction.