Generative adversarial network in mechanical fault diagnosis under small sample: A systematic review on applications and future perspectives.

Intelligent fault diagnosis has been a promising way for condition-based maintenance. However, the small sample problem has limited the application of intelligent fault diagnosis into real industrial manufacturing. Recently, the generative adversarial network (GAN) is considered as a promising way to solve the problem of small sample. For this purpose, this paper reviews the related research results on small-sample-focused fault diagnosis methods using the GAN. First, a systematic description of the GAN, and its variants, including structure-focused and loss-focused improvements, are introduced in the paper. Second, the paper reviews the related GAN-based intelligent fault diagnosis methods and classifies these studies into three main categories, deep generative adversarial networks for data augmentation, adversarial training for transfer learning, and other application scenarios (including GAN for anomaly detection and semi-supervised adversarial learning). Finally, the paper discusses several limitations of existing studies and points out future perspectives of GAN-based applications.

• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  ISA transactions

• Publication date

  2021-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science, Engineering

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  DOI 10.1016/j.isatra.2021.11.040PMID 34953580
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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