Symmetry in Bearing Modeling and Intelligent Fault Diagnosis

A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Engineering and Materials".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 1652

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College of Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
Interests: intelligent fault diagnosis; status assessment and trend forecasting; rotating machinery signal processing

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School of Rail Transportation, Soochow University, Suzhou 215131, China
Interests: machinery intelligent fault diagnosis; health monitoring of rotating machines; adaptive signal decomposition
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School of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
Interests: industrial cyber-physical systems; prognostics and system health management; graph representation learning
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Dear Colleagues,

Bearings are the key supporting components of rotating equipment, such as aircraft engines, wind turbines, high-speed trains, etc., and have played a very important role in modern society. Due to the diverse requirements of equipment, bearings often operate under harsh conditions such as high speed, heavy load, and variable working conditions, which inevitably lead to fatigue damage and significant economic losses or casualties. It is necessary and meaningful to estiablish the model and intelligently diagnose the faults of bearings. In addition, some new methods have been developed based on symmetry in mathematical models, machine learning (including feature symmetry), deep learning, and transfer learning. These methods provide effective technical solutions for evaluating bearing status and identifying specific types of bearing faults.

Symmetry in bearing modeling and intelligent fault diagnosis is an interdisciplinary field that thrives on the dynamic exchange of ideas. This planned Special Issue of Symmetry aims to provide a forum for researchers and industrial engineers to exchange their latest findings on symmetry in bearing modeling and intelligent fault diagnosis, allowing for discussion on the vital issues, challenges, and potential future trends in modern prognostics and health management systems. Papers submitted to this Special Issue are expected to provide the latest developments in data-driven design approaches, especially new theoretical results with practical applications. We would like to invite experts worldwide to contribute their research, including, but not limited to, the areas listed below:

  • Symmetry in bearing mathematical modeling;
  • Intelligent fault diagnosis with imbalanced samples;
  • Active learning intelligent diagnosis with small samples;
  • Data-driven performance evaluation, decisions and their applications;
  • Transfer fault diagnosis.

Dr. Jiantao Lu
Dr. Xingxing Jiang
Dr. Jie Liu
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • symmetry in bearing modeling
  • intelligent fault diagnosis
  • data-driven fault diagnosis method
  • interpretable intelligent diagnosis
  • transfer learning
  • active learning

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A GraphKAN-Based Intelligent Fault Diagnosis Method of Rolling Bearing Under Variable Working Conditions
by Ye Liu, Yanhe Xu, Jie Liu, Hui Qin and Xinqiang Niu
Symmetry 2025, 17(2), 241; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym17020241 - 6 Feb 2025
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Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) can effectively address the two main drawbacks of transfer learning: the requirement of a large number of samples collected from different working conditions, and the inherent defects of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In the realm of UDA, it is [...] Read more.
Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) can effectively address the two main drawbacks of transfer learning: the requirement of a large number of samples collected from different working conditions, and the inherent defects of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In the realm of UDA, it is essential to leverage three types of information: class labels, domain specifications, and data organization. These components play a vital role in linking the source domain with the target domain. A technique aimed at identifying issues in rolling bearings is presented, employing an integration of CNN-KAN and GraphKAN structures to support the UDA methodology. A cohesive deep learning architecture is employed to represent the three types of information involved in UDA. The initial two types of information are represented through the roles of classifier and domain discriminator. To begin with, an architecture leveraging CNN-KAN is employed to extract features from the incoming signals. Following this, the features obtained from the CNN-KAN architecture are input into a specially developed graph creation layer that constructs instance graphs by analyzing the relationships among the structural characteristics found within the samples. In the following step, an innovative GraphKAN model is applied to illustrate the instance graphs, concurrently employing CORrelation ALignment (CORAL) loss to assess the structural discrepancies among instance graphs from different domains. Results from experiments conducted on two separate datasets demonstrate that the proposed framework surpasses alternative approaches and successfully recognizes transferable characteristics that are advantageous for domain adaptation. Full article
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