Bearing Defect Classification Algorithm Based on Autoencoder Neural Network

The postproduction defect classification and detection of bearings still relies on manual detection, which is time-consuming and tedious. To address this, we propose a bearing defect classification network based on an autoencoder to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of bearing defect detection. An improved autoencoder is used to reduce dimension feature extraction and reduce large-scale images to small-scale images through encoder dimensional reduction. Defect classification is completed by feeding the extracted features into a convolutional classification network. Comparative experiments show that the neural network can effectively complete feature selection and substantially improve classification accuracy while avoiding the laborious algorithm of the conventional method.

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