Constructive Incremental Learning for Fault Diagnosis of Rolling
  Bearings with Ensemble Domain Adaptation
Jiang Liu Wei Dai
Given the prevalence of rolling bearing fault diagnosis as a practical issue
across various working conditions, the limited availability of samples
compounds the challenge. Additionally, the complexity of the external
environment and the structure of rolling bearings often manifests faults
characterized by randomness and fuzziness, hindering the effective extraction
of fault characteristics and restricting the accuracy of fault diagnosis. To
overcome these problems, this paper presents a novel approach termed
constructive Incremental learning-based ensemble domain adaptation (CIL-EDA)
approach. Specifically, it is implemented on stochastic configuration networks
(SCN) to constructively improve its adaptive performance in multi-domains.
Concretely, a cloud feature extraction method is employed in conjunction with
wavelet packet decomposition (WPD) to capture the uncertainty of fault
information from multiple resolution aspects. Subsequently, constructive
Incremental learning-based domain adaptation (CIL-DA) is firstly developed to
enhance the cross-domain learning capability of each hidden node through domain
matching and construct a robust fault classifier by leveraging limited labeled
data from both target and source domains. Finally, fault diagnosis results are
obtained by a majority voting of CIL-EDA which integrates CIL-DA and parallel
ensemble learning. Experimental results demonstrate that our CIL-DA outperforms
several domain adaptation methods and CIL-EDA consistently outperforms
state-of-art fault diagnosis methods in few-shot scenarios.