Intelligent rotating machinery fault diagnosis based on super-resolution enhancement using data augmentation under large speed fluctuation

In the real production of industry, in order to solve the problem that it is usually difficult to obtain correctly labeled samples, data augmentation algorithms have received more and more attention. Many efficient deep learning models have been successfully applied to the intelligent fault diagnosis of rotating machinery. However, the premise of the above method is the working conditions of the machinery are constant. It is inevitable that the equipment runs under large speed fluctuation in real industries. To achieve data augmentation under the condition of variable speed, an efficient sub-pixel deep residual neural network (ESPDRN) is proposed. The ESPDRN framework is implemented as follows: utilize low resolution (LR) samples as input to the network, to effectively learn high-level and extract feature maps by constructing a deep residual network. Through sub-pixel convolution layers to arrange the LR features of multi-channels periodically and get a set of ultra high resolution features, and the data points are augmented 16 times compared to raw data. Statistical indicators and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed ESPDRN model can effectively generate data under the condition of variable speed.