Sequence-To-Sequence Health Index Estimation of Rolling Bearings with Long-Short Term Memory and Transfer Learning

One of the main data-driven challenges when assessing bearing health is that training and test samples must be drawn from the same probability distribution. Indeed, it is difficult and almost rare to witness such a phenomenon in practical applications due to the constantly changing working conditions of rotating machines. In addition, collecting sufficient deterioration samples from the bearing life cycle is not possible due to the huge memory requirements and processing costs. As a result, accelerated life tests are believed to be the primary alternatives to such a situation. However, and unfortunately, the recorded samples always are subject to lack of real patterns. Therefore, in this paper, a transfer learning approach is performed to solve such kind of problem where PRONOSTICO dataset is used to assess the current procedures.