LSR-Net: A Lightweight and Strong Robustness Network for Bearing Fault Diagnosis in Noise Environment

TL;DR

This paper introduces LSR-Net, a lightweight neural network designed for accurate and real-time bearing fault diagnosis in noisy environments, utilizing novel denoising and efficiency modules.

Contribution

The paper presents a new lightweight network with a denoising module and efficiency shuffle block, improving noise robustness and reducing computational complexity for fault diagnosis.

Findings

LSR-Net outperforms benchmark models in noise robustness.

The model achieves lower computational complexity.

Effective real-time fault diagnosis demonstrated in noisy conditions.

Abstract

Rotating bearings play an important role in modern industries, but have a high probability of occurrence of defects because they operate at high speed, high load, and poor operating environments. Therefore, if a delay time occurs when a bearing is diagnosed with a defect, this may cause economic loss and loss of life. Moreover, since the vibration sensor from which the signal is collected is highly affected by the operating environment and surrounding noise, accurate defect diagnosis in a noisy environment is also important. In this paper, we propose a lightweight and strong robustness network (LSR-Net) that is accurate in a noisy environment and enables real-time fault diagnosis. To this end, first, a denoising and feature enhancement module (DFEM) was designed to create a 3-channel 2D matrix by giving several nonlinearity to the feature-map that passed through the denoising module (DM) block composed of convolution-based denoising (CD) blocks. Moreover, adaptive pruning was applied to DM to improve denoising ability when the power of noise is strong. Second, for lightweight model design, a convolution-based efficiency shuffle (CES) block was designed using group convolution (GConv), group pointwise convolution (GPConv) and channel split that can design the model while maintaining low parameters. In addition, the trade-off between the accuracy and model computational complexity that can occur due to the lightweight design of the model was supplemented using attention mechanisms and channel shuffle. In order to verify the defect diagnosis performance of the proposed model, performance verification was conducted in a noisy environment using a vibration signal. As a result, it was confirmed that the proposed model had the best anti-noise ability compared to the benchmark models, and the computational complexity of the model was also the lowest.