Fault diagnosis of rotating machinery is essential for ensuring operational stability and preventing unexpected system downtime. In particular, bearing defects generate distinct high-frequency patterns that can be effectively captured through Acoustic...
Fault diagnosis of rotating machinery is essential for ensuring operational stability and preventing unexpected system downtime. In particular, bearing defects generate distinct high-frequency patterns that can be effectively captured through Acoustic Emission (AE) signals. However, deploying deep learning models for on-device diagnosis remains challenging due to the limited memory capacity and computational constraints of embedded Edge devices. This study proposes a lightweight convolutional neural network (CNN) model optimized through partial quantization for bearing fault diagnosis. The proposed model converts the final classifier layers into INT8 precision while preserving FP32 or FP16 precision in the feature extraction layers, thereby reducing quantization-induced accuracy degradation.
AE spectrograms were used as input features, and the model was evaluated on multiple edge platforms including the Jetson Orin Nano Super, Raspberry Pi 5, Google Coral Dev Board, and a PC environment. Experimental results demonstrate that partial quantization maintains accuracy equivalent to the full-precision FP32 model, while achieving up to a 40–60 percent reduction in model size and noticeable improvements in inference latency. In particular, the Jetson Orin Nano Super achieved the fastest inference performance, and the Raspberry Pi 5 showed additional speed gains due to optimized XNNPACK execution. These findings confirm that the proposed approach enables efficient on-device fault diagnosis and provides a promising direction for scalable predictive maintenance of rotating machinery.