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Binkun LIU, Zhenyi XU, Yu KANG, Yang CAO, Yunbo ZHAO. Multisensor contrast neural network for remaining useful life prediction of rolling bearings under scarce labeled data[J]. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, 2025, 26(7): 1180-1193.
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Abstract: Predicting remaining useful life (RUL) of bearings under scarce labeled data is significant for intelligent manufacturing. Current approaches typically encounter the challenge that different degradation stages have similar behaviors in multisensor scenarios. Given that cross-sensor similarity improves the discrimination of degradation features, we propose a multisensor contrast method for RUL prediction under scarce RUL-labeled data, in which we use cross-sensor similarity to mine multisensor similar representations that indicate machine health condition from rich unlabeled sensor data in a co-occurrence space. Specifically, we use ResNet18 to span the features of different sensors into the co-occurrence space. We then obtain multisensor similar representations of abundant unlabeled data through alternate contrast based on cross-sensor similarity in the co-occurrence space. The multisensor similar representations indicate the machine degradation stage. Finally, we focus on finetuning these similar representations to achieve RUL prediction with limited labeled sensor data. The proposed method is evaluated on a publicly available bearing dataset, and the results show that the mean absolute percentage error is reduced by at least 0.058, and the score is improved by at least 0.122 compared with those of state-of-the-art methods.
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