Auto Labeling Methods Developed Through Semi-Weakly Supervised Learning in Prognostics and Health Management Applications for Rolling Ball Bearing

In recent years, complex machine learning and deep learning algorithms have been used in prognostics and health management applications to monitor the state of industrial systems in real-time and predict failures in advance. However, the performance of these algorithms depends on the size of the collected labeled datasets. This study proposes a semi-weakly supervised learning method that creates label functions using a small amount of data and, consequently, combines weak supervision and semi-supervision methods to expand the labeled dataset for training. The proposed model training method creates labels automatically in the life prediction dataset of rolling element bearings, which were manually labeled by expert groups. The performance of the deep neural network is continuously improved through experiments, and a performance improvement similar to that of manually labeled training data is presented. Future research applications include meta-learner experiments (e.g., use of pre-trained word embedding or other model architectures) and more appropriate selection methods and definitions for the basic learner.