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A digital imaging excitation sensing image information collection architecture for magnetic particles in lubricating oil was established to characterize the wear condition of mechanical equipment, achieving the real-time online collection of wear particles in lubricating oil. On this basis, a mechanical equipment wear condition diagnosis method based on online wear particle images is proposed, obtaining data from an engineering test platform based on a wind power gearbox. Firstly, a foreground segmentation preprocessing method based on the U-Net network can effectively eliminate the interference of bubbles and dark fields in online wear particle images, providing high-quality segmentation results for subsequent image processing, A total of 1960 wear particle images were collected in the experiment, the average intersection union ratio of the validation set is 0.9299, and the accuracy of the validation set is 0.9799. Secondly, based on the foreground segmentation preprocessing of wear particle images, by using the watered algorithm to obtain the number of particles in each size segment, we obtained the number of magnetic particle grades in three different ranges: 4\u201338 \u00b5m, 39\u201370 \u00b5m, and &gt;70 \u00b5m. Thirdly, we proposed a method named multidimensional transformer (MTF) network. Mean Square Error (MSE), Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), and Mean Absolute Error (MAE) are used to obtain the error, and the maintenance strategy is formulated according to the predicted trend. The experimental results show that the predictive performance of our proposed model is better than that of LSTM and TCN. Finally, the online real-time monitoring system triggered three alarms, and at the same time, our offline sampling data analysis was conducted, the accuracy of online real-time monitoring alarms was verified, and the gearbox of the wind turbine was shut down for maintenance and repair.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s24082481","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,12]],"date-time":"2024-04-12T09:28:06Z","timestamp":1712914086000},"page":"2481","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["An Online Digital Imaging Excitation Sensor for Wind Turbine Gearbox Wear Condition Monitoring Based on Adaptive Deep Learning Method"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"24","author":[{"given":"Hui","family":"Tao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Shien-Ming Wu School of Intelligent Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China"},{"name":"National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Industrial Tribology and Lubrication Technology, Guangzhou 510535, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yong","family":"Zhong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Shien-Ming Wu School of Intelligent Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Guo","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wei","family":"Feng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Industrial Tribology and Lubrication Technology, Guangzhou 510535, China"},{"name":"Guangzhou Mechanical Engineering Research Institute Co., Ltd., Guangzhou 510535, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"539","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ymssp.2018.05.032","article-title":"Restoration of low-informative image for robust debris shape measurement in online wear debris monitoring","volume":"114","author":"Wu","year":"2019","journal-title":"Mech. 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