Multichannel intelligent fault diagnosis of hoisting system using differential search algorithm‐variational mode decomposition and improved deep convolutional neural network

Nowadays, the feature extraction method of multichannel acoustic emission (AE) signal provides a solid research foundation for digital and intelligent fault diagnosis of the hoisting system. More specifically, AE signal collected from the hoisting system is generally characterized by nonlinear and non‐stationary, thus making the traditional intelligent fault diagnosis methods cannot accurately extract the inherent fault features. To alleviate this problem and improve the accuracy of multichannel fault diagnosis, a new fault diagnosis method for hoisting system based on differential search algorithm‐variational mode decomposition (DSA‐VMD) and improved deep convolutional neural network (IDCNN) is proposed in this paper. Specifically, the proposed DSA‐VMD and IDCNN method is divided into two main components: (i) the inside parameters (K, a) of VMD is optimized to effectively extract the multichannel AE fault feature via DSA‐VMD and (ii) the extracted multichannel fault components are fed into the designed IDCNN algorithm to accomplish fault identification automatically. Experimental results from the hoisting system demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. Additionally, the superiority of the proposed approach has also been verified in extracting fault information and fault identification compared to the other multichannel fault diagnosis methods.