Given the complexity of the application scenarios of rolling bearing and the severe scarcity of fault samples, a solution to the issue of fault diagnosis under varying working conditions along with the absence of fault samples is required. A numerical model-driven cross-domain fault diagnosis method targeting variable working conditions is proposed based on the cross-Domain Nuisance Attribute Projection (cDNAP). Firstly, the simulation datasets consisting of multiple fault types under variable working conditions are constructed to solve the problem of incomplete fault samples. Secondly, the simulation datasets are expanded by means of generating adversarial network to ensure sufficient samples for subsequent model training. Finally, cDNAP is used to obtain the cross-domain simulation projection matrix, which eliminates the variance in the distribution of measured and simulated sample features under varying working conditions. The experimental results of cross-domain for variable working conditions show that the diagnostic accuracy reaches up to 99%. Compared with DANN, DSAN, and DAAN domain adversarial neural networks, the proposed method performs better in bearing fault diagnosis.
Keywords: WGAN-BP; cDNAP; dynamic analysis; rolling bearing; variable working conditions.