An Intelligent Hybrid Scheme for Identification of Faults in Industrial Ball Screw Linear Motion Systems

Reliability of high precision linear motion system is one of the main concerns in industrial and military systems. The performance and repeatability of these systems are influenced by their respective linear drives and load bearings. A fault in these members severely affects the safe working of overall system. This paper gives a reliable intelligent approach to detect and classify faults for linear motion systems based on deep learning methods. Accuracy in faults identification is highly dependent on improved features extraction. For this purpose, a novel Residual Twin CNN (ResT-CNN) is proposed that uses combination of 1-D and 2-D CNN in parallel learning which improves features extraction performance; followed by knowledge base-Remnant-PCA (Kb-Rem-PCA) architecture in combination with multi-class support vector machine (Mc-SVM). This novel hybrid combination proved very effective in accurate faults identification. The performance of proposed methodology was also validated by IMS-UC (Intelligent Maintenance Systems - University of Cincinnati) public bearing dataset. The results confirm the effectiveness of proposed scheme in comparison to existing state of the art techniques.