Deep groove ball bearings are widely used in rotary machinery. Accurate
for bearing faults diagnosis is essential for equipment maintenance. For
common depth learning methods, the feature extraction of inverse time
domain signal direction and the attention to key features are usually
ignored. Based on the long short term memory(LSTM) network, this
study proposes an attention-based highway bidirectional long short term
memory (AHBi-LSTM) network for fault diagnosis based on the raw
vibration signal. By increasing the Attention mechanism and Highway,
the ability of the network to extract features is increased. The
bidirectional LSTM network simultaneously extracts the raw vibration
signal in positive and inverse time-domains to better extract the fault
features. Six deep groove ball bearings with different health conditions
were used to validate the AHBi-LSTM method in an experiment. The
results showed that the accuracy of the proposed method for bearing fault
diagnosis was over 98%, which was 8.66% higher than that of the LSTM
model. The AHBi-LSTM model is also better than other relevant models
for bearing fault diagnosis.