A novel unsupervised domain adaptation method with joint central moment discrepancy for fault diagnosis of rolling bearings
摘要
Existing deep learning-based unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) studies mostly measure only distribution discrepancies of independent feature layers, and the multiple layers of nesting of deep networks can lead to insufficient mining ability of relevant features. A novel UDA transfer diagnosis method with joint central moment discrepancy (JCMD) is proposed. Firstly, an effective channel attention mechanism (ECAM) is embedded into a convolutional neural network (CNN) to extract features related to bearing defect states. Secondly, a loss function based on JCMD is designed to measure joint distribution discrepancies between domains by multiplying central moment discrepancies of hidden activation values across multiple feature layers in both source and target domains. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed method is validated on two rolling bearing datasets. The findings indicate that the proposed method effectively extracts fault features across various working conditions, enhancing transfer diagnosis performance in unsupervised cross-domain scenarios.