Publication

Hyperautomation Artificial Intelligence

2024 Frequency-Focused Sound Data Generator for Fault Diagnosis in Industrial Robots

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Journal
Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
Author
Semin Ahn¹, Jinoh Yoo¹, Kyu-Wha Lee, Byeng D. Youn*, and Sung-Hoon Ahn*
Date
2024-08
Citation Index
SCIE (IF: 4.8, Rank: 11.5%)
Vol./ Page
Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 234-248
Year
2024
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Abstract

A frequency-focused sound data generator was developed for the in situ fault sound diagnosis of industrial robot reducers. The sound data generator, based on a conditional generative adversarial network, selects a target frequency range without relying on domain knowledge. A sound dataset of normal and faulty harmonic drive rotations of in situ industrial robots was collected using an attachable wireless sound sensor. The generated sound data were evaluated based on the fault diagnosis accuracy of a simple classifier trained using the generated data and tested using real data. The proposed method well-defined the frequency feature clusters and produced high-quality data, exhibiting up to 16.0% higher precision score on normal and 13.0% higher accuracy on weak-fault harmonic drive compared with the conventional methods, achieving fault diagnosis accuracy of 95.6% even in situations of fault data comprising only 5% of the normal data.