Electric Locomotive Bearing Fault Diagnosis Using a Novel Convolutional Deep Belief Network

Bearing fault diagnosis is of significance to enhance the reliability and security of electric locomotive. In this paper, a novel convolutional deep belief network (CDBN) is proposed for bearing fault diagnosis. First, an auto-encoder is used to compress data and reduce the dimension. Second, a novel CDBN is constructed with Gaussian visible units to learn the representative features. Third, exponential moving average is employed to improve the performance of the constructed deep model. The proposed method is applied to analyze experimental signals collected from electric locomotive bearings. The results show that the proposed method is more effective than the traditional methods and standard deep learning methods.