Residual Gated Dynamic Sparse Network for Gearbox Fault Diagnosis Using Multisensor Data

This article proposes a new multisensor fusion fault diagnosis method for gearbox, namely residual gated dynamic sparse network, to improve the multisensor feature learning and fusion ability. Considering that the fault sensitivity of the sensor varies with mounted location and complex transfer path modulation causes information from multisensor redundant, the lightweight channel attention unit is designed to strengthen the feature extraction ability of the network. The developed gated dynamic sparse unit is inserted into the deep architecture to eliminate ineffective components caused by high noise interference. Besides, the loss function is improved with multiple activation criteria to enhance convergence ability. The results of experiments and the engineering application show that the proposed method is more effective than other methods under varying degrees of noise interference.