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In order to solve the problem that the data distribution of the source domain and the target domain of rolling bearing is different in the variable working condition environment and the samples of the target domain do not contain labels, a fault diagnosis model of the rolling bearing based on the deep adaptive transfer learning network (DATLN) is proposed. Firstly, a domain-shared characteristic extraction network is built, and multiscale convolutional neural network (MSCNN) is used to suppress noise interference, so as to effectively extract local fault information contained in vibration signals. Secondly, combined with a bi-directional long short-term memory network (BiLSTM), the temporal characteristics in the local fault information are further learned. Finally, transfer learning is introduced to build a domain adaptive module with domain adversarial (DA) training combined with adaptive joint distribution (AJD) metrics. By maximizing the domain classification loss and minimizing the AJD distance, the source and target domain characteristic samples are aligned. The anti-noise experiment and transfer experiment are carried out on the open source CWRU data set and the measured data set of the mechanical fault platform respectively. The anti-noise experiments show the following points. ① The identification accuracy of MSCNN-BiLSTM network is above 99% in the noise-free environment, which shows that MSCNN-BiLSTM network has a good characteristic extraction capability. ② The identification accuracy of MSCNN-BiLSTM, LeNet-5, MSCNN and BiLSTM decreases with the increase of noise intensity. ③ Under the noise environment of 3, 5 and 10 dB, the average identification accuracy of MSCNN-BiLSTM network is higher than that of LeNet-5, MSCNN and BiLSTM networks, indicating that MSCNN-BiLSTM network has better anti-noise interference performance. ④ The MSCNN-BiLSTM network converges first with less fluctuation in both the noise-free environment and the 3 dB noise environment. The transfer experiments show the following points. ① The average identification accuracy of DA+AJD method is 97.36% on unlabeled target domain dataset, which is higher than that of Baseline, transfer component analysis(TCA) and domain adversarial neural network (DANN). ② On the test set confusion matrix, only one sample of the DA+AJD method is incorrectly identified, indicating that the DA+AJD method based on domain adaptation has better fault transfer diagnosis performance. ③ The t-SNE algorithm is used to visualize the processed source and target domain characteristic samples. The DA+AJD method only has a small number of rolling element fault and outer ring fault characteristic samples in the target domain that are incorrectly aligned to the inner ring fault characteristic samples area in the source domain. This result indicates that the DA+AJD method can effectively reduce the edge distribution and conditional distribution differences between the source domain and the target domain, and thus achieves better characteristic sample alignment.

For the communication parties which only have file exchange and no other means of information exchange, this paper proposes a design method of a point-to-point ordered reliable data link layer. Control information is appended to the exchanged files to realize the basic link control function. Mechanisms of sliding window and timeout retransmission are also introduced to address the problem of disorder and even loss. Furthermore, MD5 or some other check codes are also appended to the exchanged files to achieve an efficient verification of possible damage, guaranteeing the integrity and consistency of the exchanged files. The practical application shows that ordered reliable communication link service can be realized as long as all appropriate sliding window parameters could be found, even though the communication parties only have the means of file exchanges.

In a hydropower station, equipment needs maintenance to ensure safe, stable, and efficient operation. And the essence of equipment maintenance is a disassembly sequence planning problem. However, the complexity arises from the vast number of components in a hydropower station, leading to a significant proliferation of potential combinations, which poses considerable challenges when devising optimal solutions for the maintenance process. Consequently, to improve maintenance efficiency and decrease maintenance time, a discrete whale optimization algorithm (DWOA) is proposed in this paper to achieve excellent parallel disassembly sequence planning (PDSP). To begin, composite nodes are added into the constraint relationship graph based on the characteristics of hydropower equipment, and disassembly time is chosen as the optimization objective. Subsequently, the DWOA is proposed to solve the PDSP problem by integrating the precedence preservative crossover mechanism, heuristic mutation mechanism, and repetitive pairwise exchange operator. Meanwhile, the hierarchical combination method is used to swiftly generate the initial population. To verify the viability of the proposed algorithm, a classic genetic algorithm (GA), simplified teaching–learning-based optimization (STLBO), and self-adaptive simplified swarm optimization (SSO) were employed for comparison in three maintenance projects. The experimental results and comparative analysis revealed that the proposed PDSP with DWOA achieved a reduced disassembly time of only 19.96 min in Experiment 3. Additionally, the values for standard deviation, average disassembly time, and the rate of minimum disassembly time were 0.3282, 20.31, and 71%, respectively, demonstrating its superior performance compared to the other algorithms. Furthermore, the method proposed in this paper addresses the inefficiencies in dismantling processes in hydropower stations and enhances visual representation for maintenance training by integrating Unity3D with intelligent algorithms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) are widely acknowledged as a prospective power source, but durability problems have constrained development. Therefore, a compound prediction framework is proposed in this paper by integrating the locally weighted scatter plot smoothing method (LOESS), uniform information coefficient (UIC), and attention-based stacked generalization model (ASGM) with improved dung beetle optimization (IDBO). Firstly, LOESS is adopted to filter original degraded sequences. Then, UIC is applied to obtain critical information by selecting relevant factors of the processed degraded sequences. Subsequently, the critical information is input into the base models of ASGM, including kernel ridge regression (KRR), extreme learning machine (ELM), and the temporal convolutional network (TCN), to acquire corresponding prediction results. Finally, the prediction results are fused using the meta-model attention-based LSTM of ASGM to obtain future degradation trends (FDT) and the remaining useful life (RUL), in which the attention mechanism is introduced to deduce weight coefficients of the base model prediction results in LSTM. Meanwhile, IDBO based on Levy flight, adaptive mutation, and polynomial mutation strategies are proposed to search for optimal parameters in LSTM. The application of two different datasets and their comparison with five related models shows that the proposed framework is suitable and effective for forecasting the FDT and RUL of PEMFC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To address the problems of existing 2D image-based imbalanced fault diagnosis methods for rolling bearings, which generate images with inadequate texture details and color degradation, this paper proposes a novel image enhancement model based on a dual-branch generative adversarial network (GAN) combining spatial and frequency domain information for an imbalanced fault diagnosis of rolling bearing. Firstly, the original vibration signals are converted into 2D time–frequency (TF) images by a continuous wavelet transform, and a dual-branch GAN model with a symmetric structure is constructed. One branch utilizes an auxiliary classification GAN (ACGAN) to process the spatial information of the TF images, while the other employs a GAN with a frequency generator and a frequency discriminator to handle the frequency information of the input images after a fast Fourier transform. Then, a shuffle attention (SA) module based on an attention mechanism is integrated into the proposed model to improve the network's expression ability and reduce the computational burden. Simultaneously, mean square error (MSE) is integrated into the loss functions of both generators to enhance the consistency of frequency information for the generated images. Additionally, a Wasserstein distance and gradient penalty are also incorporated into the losses of the two discriminators to prevent gradient vanishing and mode collapse. Under the supervision of the frequency WGAN-GP branch, an ACWGAN-GP can generate high-quality fault samples to balance the dataset. Finally, the balanced dataset is utilized to train the auxiliary classifier to achieve fault diagnosis. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated by two rolling bearing datasets. When the imbalanced ratios of the four datasets are 0.5, 0.2, 0.1, and 0.05, respectively, their average classification accuracy reaches 99.35% on the CWRU bearing dataset. Meanwhile, the average classification accuracy reaches 96.62% on the MFS bearing dataset. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The development of novel materials for highly efficient and selective photocatalysis is crucial for their practical applications. Herein, we employ the host‐guest chemistry of porphyrin‐based metallacages to regulate the generation of reactive oxygen species and further use them for the selective photocatalytic oxidation of benzyl alcohols. Upon irradiation, the sole metallacage (6) can generate singlet oxygen (1O2) effectively via excited energy transfer, while its complex with C70 (6⊃C70) opens a pathway for electron transfer to promote the formation of superoxide anion (O2⋅−), producing both 1O2 and O2⋅−. The addition of 4,4′‐bipyridine (BPY) to complex 6⊃C70 forms a more stable complex (6⊃BPY) via the coordination of the Zn‐porphyrin faces of 6 and BPY, which drives fullerenes out of the cavities and restores the ability of 1O2 generation. Therefore, benzyl alcohols are oxidized into benzyl aldehydes upon irradiation in the presence of 6 or 6⊃BPY, while they are oxidized into benzoic acids when 6⊃C70 is employed as the photosensitizing agent. This study demonstrates a highly efficient strategy that utilizes the host‐guest chemistry of metallacages to regulate the generation of reactive oxygen species for selective photooxidation reactions, which could promote the utilization of metallacages and their related host‐guest complexes for photocatalytic applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]