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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Mech. Eng.

Sec. Mechatronics

Volume 11 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fmech.2025.1635741

Analysis method combining improved AE algorithm and signal reconstruction in mechanical faults

Provisionally accepted
  • Anyang Vocational and Technical College, Anyang, China

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Fault diagnosis analysis of mechanical equipment is greatly significant for maintaining the production efficiency of enterprises. Traditional diagnostic methods have shortcomings in accuracy and robustness. Therefore, the study integrates variational autoencoders with long short-term memory network models, enhances them using dropout methods, and proposes a hybrid diagnostic analysis model that combines improved autoencoder algorithms and signal reconstruction. The experiment outcomes indicated that under the slow degradation mode of the bearing, the precision, recall, F1 score, and overall accuracy of the improved autoencoder model were 0.931, 0.933, 0.920, and 0.939, respectively, which were better than the pre-modified model. The fault diagnosis results showed that in the rapid degradation mode of the bearing, the research model discovered potential faults at 8830 seconds, earlier than other models. The ablation experiment results showed that the precision, recall, F1 score, and overall accuracy of the enhanced study model using the dropout method were 0.83, 0.80, 0.82, and 0.99, respectively. Compared with the baseline model, the four indicators improved by 5.1%, 6.7%, 6.5%, and 5.3%, respectively. The memory usage test findings denoted that the average memory usage of the research model was less than 46%, which was better than the control model. The research promotes innovation and optimization of mechanical fault diagnosis technology, improves the accuracy and timeliness of fault diagnosis analysis models, and is of great significance for ensuring production safety, reducing maintenance costs, and improving enterprise economic benefits.

Keywords: Mechanical equipment, Fault diagnosis, Auto encoder, Signal reconstruction, LSTM

Received: 27 May 2025; Accepted: 01 Jul 2025.

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* Correspondence: Zhenhua Niu, Anyang Vocational and Technical College, Anyang, China

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