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Cross-Condition Vibration-Based Fault Diagnosis of Rolling Bearings Using Dual-Branch Feature Fusion and MK-MMD Domain Alignment Cover

Cross-Condition Vibration-Based Fault Diagnosis of Rolling Bearings Using Dual-Branch Feature Fusion and MK-MMD Domain Alignment

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Open Access
|Oct 2026

Figures & Tables

Fig. 1.

Overall structure of the proposed dual-branch fault diagnosis framework.

Table 1.

Measurement data and preprocessing configuration.

ItemSetting
Load conditions0, 2, and 4 Nm
Rotational speedapproximately 3010 rpm
Sampling rate25.6 kHz
Vibration channels4
Segment duration0.5 s
Points per segment12 800
STFT window/overlap256/128 points
FFT output length256 points
Fault classes5
Table 2.

Transfer-task definitions and exact sample sizes. Each entry reports files/segments.

TaskSource loadsTarget loadSource trainSource validationTarget unlabeledTarget test
T10+2 Nm4 Nm24/49206/12006/12009/1680
T20+4 Nm2 Nm24/49206/12006/12009/1680
T32+4 Nm0 Nm24/45606/12006/12009/2040
Table 3.

Class-wise segment counts in each split, ordered as BPFI/BPFO/misalignment/normal/unbalance.

TaskSource trainSource validationTarget unlabeledTarget test
T1600/600/1200/600/1920120/120/240/240/480120/120/240/0/720240/240/480/240/480
T2600/600/1200/600/1920120/120/240/240/480120/120/240/0/720240/240/480/240/480
T3600/600/1200/240/1920120/120/240/240/480120/120/240/0/720240/240/480/600/480
Table 4.

Target-domain comparison with external domain-adaptation methods. Accuracy and macro-F1 are expressed as percentages.

MethodT1: 0+2→4 NmT2: 0+4→2 NmT3: 2+4→0 NmAverage
Accuracymacro-F1Accuracymacro-F1Accuracymacro-F1Accuracymacro-F1
ACDANN [28]42.8646.6780.5479.2361.2365.4761.5463.79
MFSAN [29]61.1958.0375.8969.2364.1768.1967.0865.15
MSSA [30]67.2663.7485.7176.0060.6965.7071.2268.48
IRDDDA [31]45.0041.7728.5725.8343.5832.9039.0533.50
Proposed87.6289.2485.7176.0070.5972.3181.3179.18
Table 5.

A1–A5 ablation results on the target test sets. Accuracy and macro-F1 are expressed as percentages.

VariantT1T2T3Average
Accuracymacro-F1Accuracymacro-F1Accuracymacro-F1Accuracymacro-F1
A1: STFT–CNN only58.7555.0284.8875.1770.5972.3171.4167.50
A2: FFT–TCN only70.7169.3473.3373.4660.2061.6568.0868.15
A3: fixed fusion37.9838.0585.0075.4653.5859.0858.8557.53
A4: no alignment28.5725.8057.6252.1447.1151.9344.4343.29
A5: single-kernel MMD54.5848.6857.6852.8170.5972.3160.9557.93
Full model87.6289.2485.7176.0070.5972.3181.3179.18

[i] Note: Each variant changes only the component stated in its name; A4 removes the alignment term.

Fig. 2.

Confusion matrices of the proposed model under the three transfer tasks.

Fig. 3.

Per-class F1 scores of the proposed model under the three transfer tasks.

Fig. 4.

Per-class precision–recall curves of the proposed model under the three transfer tasks. AP denotes average precision.

Fig. 5.

t-SNE visualization of fused source-validation (circles) and target-test (crosses) features. Colors denote fault classes.

Language: English
Page range: 250 - 259
Submitted on: Apr 22, 2026
Accepted on: Sep 2, 2026
Published on: Oct 13, 2026
Published by: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Measurement Science
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: Volume open

© 2026 Yancong Han, Yin Luo, Qi Shi, Jun He, Huihua Zhuo, published by Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Measurement Science
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