Stacked Convolutional Bidirectional LSTM Recurrent Neural Network for Bearing Anomaly Detection in Rotating Machinery Diagnostics

This paper proposes a multi-layered anomaly detection scheme to train feature extraction and to test anomaly prediction by using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) layer, Bidirectional and Unidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), which is one of a novel deep architecture named stacked convolutional bidirectional LSTM network (SCB-LSTM). In the proposed model, the stacked CNNs perform feature extraction of vibration sensor signal patterns, and the result is used to feature learning with the stacked bidirectional LSTMs (SB-LSTMs). After this procedure, the stacked unidirectional LSTMs (SU-LSTMs) enhance the feature learning, and a regression layer finally predicts anomaly detections. The experimental results of bearing data not only show the accuracy of the proposed model in anomaly detection for rotating machinery diagnostics, but also suggest the better performance than other state-of-the-art algorithms such as a plain uni-LSTM or Bi-LSTM.