Performance degradation assessment of rolling bearing based on convolutional neural network and deep long-short term memory network

Many traditional approaches for performance degradation assessment of rolling bearings, using sensor data, make assumptions about how they degrade or fault evolve. However, the sequential sensor data cannot be directly taken as input in the traditional models since the data always contain noise and change in length. To solve these problems, a convolutional neural network and deep long-short term memory (CNN-DLSTM) based architecture is proposed to obtain an unsupervised H-statistic for performance degradation assessment of rolling bearing using sensor time-series data. Firstly, a CNN is applied to extract local abstract features from raw sensor data. Secondly, a deep LSTM is explored to extract temporal features. CNN-DLSTM is trained to reconstruct the time-series sensor signal reflecting the health condition of rolling bearing. The D- and Q-statistic are used to compute H-statistic which is then used for performance degradation assessment. The proposed approach is evaluated on an experiment with rolling bearings and the results are presented on a public dataset of rolling bearing, verifying that the proposed approach outperforms several state-of-the-art methods.