Application of Multi-Dimension Input Convolutional Neural Network in Fault Diagnosis of Rolling Bearings

Aiming at the problem of poor robustness of the intelligent diagnostic model, a fault diagnosis model of rolling bearing based on a multi-dimension input convolutional neural network (MDI-CNN) is proposed. Compared with the traditional convolution neural network, the proposed model has multiple input layers. Therefore, it can fuse the original signal and processed signal—making full use of advantages of the convolutional neural networks to learn the original signal characteristics automatically, and also improving recognition accuracy and anti-jamming ability. The feasibility and validity of the proposed MDI-CNN are verified, and its advantages are proved by comparison with the other related models. Moreover, the robustness of the model is tested by adding the noise to the test set. Finally, the stability of the model is verified by two experiments. The experimental results show that the proposed model improves the recognition rate, robustness and convergence performance of the traditional convolution model and has good generalization ability.