Fault Diagnosis of Dynamic Systems Under Unknown Operating Conditions: A Condition-Guided Selective Adaptation Approach

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The paper offers a transferable mechanism for distribution shift: represent the operating condition as a continuous variable with a heteroscedastic Gaussian discriminator, then adversarially train features so fault predictions remain informative while condition information is suppressed. Its second asset is selective test-time adaptation, where residual condition-response discrepancies determine which unlabeled streaming samples are sufficiently reliable for updating the model. In neural networks, this can become a condition-invariant representation objective plus an uncertainty- and residual-gated online update rule. The key falsifiable signatures are improved fault accuracy as condition predictability is reduced, and substantially lower test-time drift when updates are restricted to low-residual samples.