Weak Signal Detection and Fault Diagnosis

A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Machines Testing and Maintenance".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 258

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College of Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
Interests: intelligent machine learning and artificial neural network; intelligent fault diagnosis technology; weak signal identification and intelligent health diagnosis; intelligent vehicle design and lightweight technology
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Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Health Maintenance for Mechanical Equipment, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China
Interests: mechanical condition monitoring; health assessment; life prediction; intelligent diagnosis; and vibration control

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Dear Colleagues,

When the working status of various equipment is abnormal, this is often first discovered by detecting weak signals. It is of the utmost importance to accurately detect the characteristics of weak signals, identify them, and confirm whether these weak abnormal signals are faults through intelligent diagnostic methods. Although research in this field began many years ago, research using artificial intelligence technology has only been ongoing for a decade or so. The intelligent diagnosis of these faint abnormal signals, which are often hard to see, time-varying, nonlinear, extremely weak, and have low recognition accuracy due to environmental factors, is quite significant. Of course, finding dynamic cross domain diagnostic patterns is an important research method. There are also some weak fault diagnosis studies that integrate model-driven and data-driven approaches, which are important research directions in fault diagnosis. We look forward to receiving papers on the research achievements of our peers in this field for different operating equipment.

Prof. Dr. Shunming Li
Prof. Dr. Guangfu Bin
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • weak signal
  • fault diagnosis
  • artificial intelligence
  • recognition accuracy
  • cross domain diagnostic
  • integration

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