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Machinery Prognostics and High-Dimensional Data Feature Extraction Based on A Transformer Self-Attention Transfer Network

Version 1 : Received: 27 September 2023 / Approved: 28 September 2023 / Online: 29 September 2023 (08:21:32 CEST)

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Sun, S.; Peng, T.; Huang, H. Machinery Prognostics and High-Dimensional Data Feature Extraction Based on a Transformer Self-Attention Transfer Network. Sensors 2023, 23, 9190. Sun, S.; Peng, T.; Huang, H. Machinery Prognostics and High-Dimensional Data Feature Extraction Based on a Transformer Self-Attention Transfer Network. Sensors 2023, 23, 9190.

Abstract

Machinery degradation assessment can offer meaningful prognosis and health management in-formation. Although numerous machine prediction models based on artificial intelligence have emerged in recent years, they still face a series of challenges: (1) Many models continue to rely on manual feature extraction. (2) Deep learning models still struggle with long sequence prediction tasks. (3) Health indicators are inefficient for remaining useful life (RUL) prediction with cross-operational environments when dealing with high-dimensional datasets as inputs. This research proposes a health indicator construction methodology based on a transformer self-attention transfer network (TSTN). This methodology can directly deal with the high-dimensional raw dataset and keep all the information without missing when the signals are taken as the input of the diagnosis and prognosis model. First, we design an encoder with a long-term and short-term self-attention mechanism to capture crucial time-varying information from a high-dimensional dataset. Second, we propose an estimator that can map the embedding from the encoder output to the estimated degradation trends. Then, we present a domain dis-criminator to extract invariant features from different machine operating conditions. The case studies with the FEMTO-ST bearing dataset and the Monte Carlo method for RUL prediction during the degradation process are conducted. The experiment results fully exhibited the signif-icant advantages of the proposed method compared to other state-of-the-art techniques.

Keywords

Feature extraction; Prognostics; Self-attention transfer network; High-dimensional data

Subject

Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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