Review Article

The Importance of Feature Processing in Deep-Learning-Based Condition Monitoring of Motors

Table 2

Application of AE in condition monitoring of motors.

YearInput data and featuresDL modelApplicationRemarks

2016Raw vibrationSAE + DNN [57]Motor fault classificationIntegrated “dropout” regularization allowed to avoid overfitting, which in turn improved the classification performance
Acoustic emissions/sound signals + STFTSAE [58]Rolling bearing fault classificationSTFT allowed for fast and effective feature extraction, which in turn increased accuracy of the classifier

2017Vibration + FFTAE + ELM [59]Bearing fault classificationAE-ELM approach increased the speed of the training process. The approach was much faster than SAE. However, the model did not perform well for online sequential learning
Raw vibrationSAE [60]Rolling bearing fault severity level classificationDeep SAE inputted with added noise vibration data has effectively overcome the overfitting problem posed by small training datasets
Vibration + time domain features + wavelet energy features + power spectrum featuresSAE + DNN [61]Rolling bearing fault severity level classificationHybrid features pool was able to tackle the nonlinearity in the vibration data and resulted in more effective classification results
Raw vibrationDAE and SAE [62]Rolling bearing fault classificationThe comparative analysis performed between DAE and SAE classifiers showed that the DAE outperformed SAE classifier due to its potentiality of learning complex nonlinear mapping relationships
Vibration + compressionSAE + DNN [63]Rolling bearing fault classificationData compression technique with SAE enables effective fault classification, with huge datasets through an easy approach

2018Raw vibrationEnsemble AE [64]Rolling bearing fault classificationA novel ensemble of 15 AEs, each with different activation function overcome the limitations of individual AE models and removed manual feature extraction
Current + time domain and frequency domain featuresDeep AE [65]Unsupervised bearing fault predictionResults showed effectiveness of the technique in terms bearing fault prediction with clear clustering and high accuracy

2019Vibration + FFTESAE [66]Rolling bearing fault classificationFFT with ESAE has revealed superior performance of the proposed model in comparison with traditional models
Current + FFTAE [67]Induction motor fault classificationFFT with the AE yielded superior performance compared to the existing models
Raw vibrationSAE + GRU [68]Rolling bearing fault classificationAn optimal hybrid DL mode constructed using SAE and GRU can extract rich features from raw vibration data. Results confirmed the superiority of the proposed model

2020Raw vibrationStacked pruning DAE [69]Rolling bearing fault classificationA novel model called SPADE with pruning operation increased efficiency and precision of the model by decreasing the training amount of the model