Explainable and interpretable bearing fault classification and diagnosis under limited data

dc.contributor.authorMagadán, Luis
dc.contributor.authorRuiz-Cárcel, Cristobal
dc.contributor.authorGranda, JC
dc.contributor.authorSuárez, FJ
dc.contributor.authorStarr, Andrew G.
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-28T14:15:00Z
dc.date.available2024-11-28T14:15:00Z
dc.date.freetoread2024-11-28
dc.date.issued2024-10
dc.date.pubOnline2024-11-05
dc.description.abstractRotating machinery plays an essential role in various industrial processes such as manufacturing, power generation, and transportation. These machines, which include turbines, pumps, motors, compressors, and many others, are the heartbeats of numerous industries. The seamless operation of these machines is critical for the efficiency and productivity of these sectors. However, over time, these machines degrade and can suffer faults. One of the most critical components are bearings, which can suffer different types of faults. This paper presents a novel approach for bearing fault classification and diagnosis under limited data. A Monotonic Smoothed Stacked AutoEncoder (MS2AE) is used to infer a smoothed monotonic health index from raw bearing acceleration data. The MS2AE is trained using only healthy data, so this approach can also be used with recently comisioned equipment that has not failed yet. Then, using the evolution of the health index, a first faulty point is computed, so two stages are identified in the lifespan of the rotating machinery: healthy and faulty. Correlation matrices are computed to show the relationship of the health index with time-domain and frequency-domain features in order to provide explainability and validate the health index construction process. When the health index is classified as faulty, Dynamic Time Warping is applied between healthy samples and faulty samples to extract differences. Finally, based on a 1/3-binary tree 3 level kurtogram, these differences are filtered using a bandpass filter and converted to the frequency domain, where characteristic harmonics are used to identify the type of bearing fault. The explainability provided in the health index construction process makes the system useful in certain industries where black-box AI models cannot be trusted due to strict regulations. The classification and diagnosis system achieves robustness in fault classification under different working conditions by utilizing multiple bearing fault datsets. Its ability to be trained using only healthy data and the interpretability offered, makes it suitable for recently installed rotating machinery in real industrial facilities, without requiring qualified staff.
dc.description.journalNameAdvanced Engineering Informatics
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was partially funded by the Spanish National Plan of Research, Development, and Innovation under project EDNA (PID2021-124383OB-100), the University of Oviedo and theUniversity of Cranfield. L. Magadán is supported by the Severo Ochoa program (PA-22-BP21-120).
dc.identifier.citationMagadán L, Ruiz-Cárcel C, Granda JC, et al., (2024) Explainable and interpretable bearing fault classification and diagnosis under limited data. Advanced Engineering Informatics, Volume 62, Part D, October 2024, Article number 102909
dc.identifier.elementsID558571
dc.identifier.issn1474-0346
dc.identifier.paperNo102909
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.aei.2024.102909
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/23234
dc.identifier.volumeNo62
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1474034624005603?via%3Dihub
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject4007 Control Engineering, Mechatronics and Robotics
dc.subject40 Engineering
dc.subject7 Affordable and Clean Energy
dc.subjectDesign Practice & Management
dc.subject40 Engineering
dc.subject46 Information and computing sciences
dc.subjectIndustry 4.0
dc.subjectFault diagnosis
dc.subjectFault classification
dc.subjectRotating machinery
dc.subjectDynamic time warping
dc.subjectStacked autoencoder
dc.subjectExplainable AI
dc.titleExplainable and interpretable bearing fault classification and diagnosis under limited data
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.subtypeJournal Article
dcterms.dateAccepted2024-10-22

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