Journal of Jilin University(Engineering and Technology Edition) ›› 2026, Vol. 56 ›› Issue (7): 1811-1824.doi: 10.13229/j.cnki.jdxbgxb.20241377

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Gear box fault diagnosis method based on multi-channel fusion

Zhi-gang FENG(),Ying WANG,Yu WANG   

  1. Department of Automation,Shenyang Aerospace University,Shenyang 110136,China
  • Received:2024-12-30 Online:2026-07-01 Published:2026-08-12

Abstract:

To address the limitations of single-channel vibration signals in comprehensively characterizing gearbox fault features, this paper proposes a data-level fusion method called MFTDCN is proposed.This method effectively integrates information from multiple channels to obtain richer features compared to single vibration signals.The approach begins by applying Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to multi-channel vibration signals to reduce them into three components. These components are then transformed into three time-frequency images using Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT). An improved cosine similarity measure, based on Hoyer sparsity, is employed to calculate weights by combining sparsity and similarity metrics. These weights are used to perform weighted fusion of the three time-frequency images, resulting in a single RGB image, which is then used as input for the diagnostic model. The diagnostic model combines Deformable Convolution Networks (DCN) with Transformer architectures to extract features and classify faults. Experimental results on the gearbox data set of Southeast University and the data set jointly published by Beijing University of Technology and Beijing Jiaotong University confirm the effectiveness and reliability of the proposed method.

Key words: fault diagnosis, data-level fusion, short-time Fourier transform, cosine similarity, deformable convolution network, Transformer

CLC Number: 

  • TH17

Fig.1

Deformable convolution diagram"

Fig.2

Transformer structure diagram"

Fig.3

Cosine similarity calculation structure based on improved Hoyer sparsity"

Fig.4

MFTDCN model diagram"

Fig.5

Fault diagnosis process"

Table 1

Division table of bearing and gearbox data sets in southeast university data set"

轴承/齿轮箱类型训练集测试集标签
轴承数据滚动体故障210900
内圈故障210901
外圈故障210902
复合故障210903
健康状态210904
齿轮数据齿轮断齿210900
齿轮缺口210901
齿面磨损210902
齿根裂纹210903
健康状态210904

Fig.6

Comparative effect of different image conversion methods"

Table 2

Comparison of accuracy rates of different image conversion methods"

工况GrayGAFMTFSTFT
均值86.8793.1180.0699.46
bearingset_20_082.1696.1674.24100.00
bearingset_30_284.2293.7684.2299.92
gearset_20_086.1888.7182.1198.27
gearset_30_294.9193.8079.6799.65

Table 3

Comparison of time-frequency graphs of three components of different fault types with generated RGB images"

类型工况 bearingset_30_2工况gearset_30_2
滚动体内圈外圈复合正常缺口断牙裂纹磨损正常
分量1
分量2
分量3
RGB

Table 4

Comparison of accuracy of different weight calculation methods"

工况信息熵方差权重未改进的余弦相似度能量权重Hoyer稀疏度改进的余弦相似度
均值97.8898.0998.9098.2299.46
bearingset_20_099.4299.8399.8799.38100.00
bearingset_30_299.1799.63100.0099.5599.92
gearset_20_094.0293.9496.2495.0898.28
gearset_30_298.8998.9499.4898.8699.65

Table 5

Comparison table of fault diagnosis results of different models"

工况RGB-ResNetGray-LeNet-5Raw-TICNNMatrix-CNNCAM_MCFCNNMFTDCN
均值97.0093.8199.1297.6296.8999.46
bearingset_20_099.8495.1299.8499.5595.11100.00
bearingset_30_299.5599.2897.6099.9494.8999.92
gearset_20_092.2789.3399.0595.7698.6798.27
gearset_30_296.3291.5299.9795.2398.8899.65

Fig.7

Training accuracy curve of MFTDCN method in each condition"

Fig.8

Confusion matrix under four working conditions"

Fig.9

Comparison of t-SNE feature distribution in test set before and after training"

Table 6

Small sample training accuracy"

工况1∶92∶83∶77∶3
均值95.0097.0497.5999.46
bearingset_20_098.1299.3699.59100.00
bearingset_30_297.1699.2799.4799.92
gearset_20_090.2592.9693.5598.27
gearset_30_294.4896.5897.7499.65

Fig.10

Training curve of each condition in small sample experiment"

Table 7

Accuracy table of merged datasets"

工况准确率/%
20_098.26
30_298.38

Fig.11

Training accuracy curve of the merged dataset"

Fig.12

Confusion matrix under condition 30_2 with merged dataset"

Table 8

Accuracy rate table for generalization ability experiment"

工况准确率/%工况准确率/%
1_2099.31_4098.5
1_2599.61_4598.3
1_3098.61_5098.1
1_3598.21_5599.6

Fig.13

Training curve under condition 1_55 in generalization experiment"

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