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Factorized axis convolutional gated recurrent unit with dynamic adaptive pooling for remaining useful life prediction of rolling bearings
arXiv:2609.30972v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are widely used to predict the remaining useful life (RUL) of rolling bearings from time-frequency representations (
arXiv:2609.30972v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are widely used to predict the remaining useful life (RUL) of rolling bearings from time-frequency representations (TFRs) of vibration signals. However, during degradation, characteristic structures in TFRs align predominantly along the frequency or time axis, making it challenging for conventional CNN isotropic kernels to capture directional structure. Furthermore, global average pooling (GAP) averages across axes, potentially obscuring the locations and concentrations of salient activations. This study introduces a factorized-axis convolutional gated recurrent unit (GRU) that employs multiscale anisotropic convolution and dual-axis convolution block attention module to enhance directional features and highlight salient time-frequency regions. Dynamic adaptive pooling (DAP) adaptively aggregates the time-frequency-axis information from the extracted feature maps, whereas a GRU captures temporal dynamics in the latent representations and Monte Carlo dropout enables predictive uncertainty estimation. Experiments on two public bearing datasets demonstrate that the proposed model outperforms existing RUL prediction methods across operating conditions. Ablation experiments demonstrate that the factorized axis-wise design achieves lower mean errors than convolutional isotropic kernels. DAP yields clear improvements on one dataset while matching GAP on the other, highlighting the importance of anisotropic feature extraction and adaptive feature aggregation for TFR-based RUL prediction.
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Source: arXiv cs.AI | 2026-09-28