scholarly journals Planetary Gearbox Fault Diagnosis Using Envelope Manifold Demodulation

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weigang Wen ◽  
Robert X. Gao ◽  
Weidong Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Frequency Band ◽  
Manifold Learning ◽  
Planetary Gear ◽  
Vibration Signal ◽  
Planetary Gearbox ◽  
Characteristic Extraction ◽  
Gear Fault ◽  
Planet Gear ◽  
Fault Characteristic

The important issue in planetary gear fault diagnosis is to extract the dependable fault characteristics from the noisy vibration signal of planetary gearbox. To address this critical problem, an envelope manifold demodulation method is proposed for planetary gear fault detection in the paper. This method combines complex wavelet, manifold learning, and frequency spectrogram to implement planetary gear fault characteristic extraction. The vibration signal of planetary gear is demodulated by wavelet enveloping. The envelope energy is adopted as an indicator to select meshing frequency band. Manifold learning is utilized to reduce the effect of noise within meshing frequency band. The fault characteristic frequency of the planetary gear is shown by spectrogram. The planetary gearbox model and test rig are established and experiments with planet gear faults are conducted for verification. All results of experiment analysis demonstrate its effectiveness and reliability.

scholarly journals Fault Diagnosis of Planet Gear Using Continuous Vibration Separation and Minimum Entropy Deconvolution

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (22) ◽  
pp. 8062
Author(s):  
Jian Shen ◽  
Lun Zhang ◽  
Niaoqing Hu
Keyword(s):  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Planetary Gear ◽  
Dynamic Responses ◽  
Minimum Entropy ◽  
Modulation Effect ◽  
Dynamic Component ◽  
Planetary Gearbox ◽  
Gear Fault ◽  
Vibration Responses ◽  
Planet Gear

Planet gear is the most unique dynamic component in planetary gearbox. It rotates around sun gear while rotating around its own central axis, causing modulation effect in monitoring signal. Planetary gear is usually connected to heavy external loads and other transmissions, fault feature of planet gear may be overwhelmed by noises and other signals. Focused on planet gear inside planetary gearbox, a method for fault diagnosis is proposed in this paper based on continuous vibration separation (CVS) and minimum entropy deconvolution (MED). In this method, CVS is designed to separate dynamic responses of planet gear from overall vibration responses of planetary gearbox by overcoming the modulation effect and depressing noises. MED is used for enhancement detection of fault-related impulses. Simulations and experiments are conducted to collect signals for analysis. The proposed method is also compared with vibration separation method (VS). Both simulation and experiment analysis indicate that the proposed planet gear fault diagnosis method is effective. Comparative study indicates that CVS-MED method improves VS by keeping signal periodicity while overcoming modulation effect and depressing noises.

scholarly journals Fault Diagnosis of a Helical Gearbox Based on an Adaptive Empirical Wavelet Transform in Combination with a Spectral Subtraction Method

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1696 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wang ◽  
Lee
Keyword(s):  
Wavelet Transform ◽  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Background Noise ◽  
Vibration Signal ◽  
Spectral Subtraction ◽  
Accurate Identification ◽  
Side Band ◽  
Empirical Wavelet Transform ◽  
Gear Fault ◽  
Fault Characteristic

Fault characteristic extraction is attracting a great deal of attention from researchers for the fault diagnosis of rotating machinery. Generally, when a gearbox is damaged, accurate identification of the side-band features can be used to detect the condition of the machinery equipment to reduce financial losses. However, the side-band feature of damaged gears that are constantly disturbed by strong jamming is embedded in the background noise. In this paper, a hybrid signal-processing method is proposed based on a spectral subtraction (SS) denoising algorithm combined with an empirical wavelet transform (EWT) to extract the side-band feature of gear faults. Firstly, SS is used to estimate the real-time noise information, which is used to enhance the fault signal of the helical gearbox from a vibration signal with strong noise disturbance. The empirical wavelet transform can extract amplitude-modulated/frequency-modulated (AM-FM) components of a signal using different filter bands that are designed in accordance with the signal properties. The fault signal is obtained by building a flexible gear for a helical gearbox with ADAMS software. The experiment shows the feasibility and availability of the multi-body dynamics model. The spectral subtraction-based adaptive empirical wavelet transform (SS-AEWT) method was applied to estimate the gear side-band feature for different tooth breakages and the strong background noise. The verification results show that the proposed method gives a clearer indication of gear fault characteristics with different tooth breakages and the different signal-noise ratio (SNR) than the conventional EMD and LMD methods. Finally, the fault characteristic frequency of a damaged gear suggests that the proposed SS-AEWT method can accurately and reliably diagnose faults of a gearbox.

scholarly journals Fault diagnosis of a planetary gearbox based on a local bi-spectrum and a convolutional neural network

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lingli Jiang ◽  
LI Shuhui ◽  
LI Xuejun ◽  
Jiale Lei ◽  
YANG Dalian
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Vibration Signal ◽  
Vibration Signals ◽  
Planetary Gearbox ◽  
Gaussian Colored Noise ◽  
Diagnosis Method ◽  
Non Gaussian ◽  
Fault Information ◽  
Fault Characteristic

Abstract The vibration signals of a planetary gearbox have the characteristics of strong background noise and instability and are non-Gaussian. Bi-spectrums can suppress Gaussian colored noise and are suitable for vibration signal processing of planetary gearboxes. In the traditional fault diagnosis methods based on bi-spectrums, the fault characteristic frequency amplitudes of bi-spectrum or bi-spectrum slices, or the further quantitative calculations of fault characteristic values, are generally used as the basis of fault diagnosis processes. It has been found that bi-spectrum images can directly characterize the faults of the planetary gearboxes. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been used in mechanical fault diagnoses in recent years. One-dimensional original signals are converted into two-dimensional images as CNN input, which is an effective method for mechanical fault diagnoses. At the present time, there has not been any relevant research conducted using bi-spectral images as CNN input. In this study, a fault diagnosis method based on local bi-spectrum and CNN was proposed. A bi-spectral analysis of the vibration signals of the planetary gearbox was first carried out in order to reveal the fault information while retaining the non-Gaussian information. Then, according to the bi-spectrum symmetry, local images containing the entire domain information were taken as the input of the CNN, which reduced the redundancy of the fault information. Then, in order to improve the diagnostic accuracy of the CNN, the key parameters of CNN architecture were optimized. Finally, a CNN diagnosis model was built to realize the classification diagnoses of different fault positions and different fault degrees of planetary gearboxes. This study’s comparison of the diagnosis results of the full bi-spectrum+CNN, local bi-spectrum+SVM, original vibration signal+CNN, and local bi-spectrum+BP neural networks showed that the method proposed in this study had achieved both accuracy and rapidity in the fault diagnoses of planetary gearboxes.

A fast filtering method based on adaptive impulsive wavelet for the gear fault diagnosis

2020 ◽  
pp. 095440622090624
Author(s):  
Gang Yu ◽  
Mang Gao ◽  
Chengli Jia
Keyword(s):  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Characteristic Frequency ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Damping Ratio ◽  
Engineering Application ◽  
Vibration Signal ◽  
Optimal Parameters ◽  
Gear Fault ◽  
Shannon Wavelet ◽  
Fault Characteristic

The useful fault features applied for the fault diagnosis are usually overwhelmed by noise and other interference factors in rotation machinery. The impulses masked in vibration signals can represent the faults of gears or bearings in a gearbox. The key to finding impulsive components is to identify the modeling parameters (such as damping ratio, central frequency) of a transient (Morlet wavelet, Laplace wavelet), which can be used as an adaptive filter to denoise the vibration signal. However, its engineering application is limited by the time-consuming computation. In order to tackle this issue, a fast algorithm based on an adaptive impulsive wavelet is proposed to filter the fault signal so that the fault characteristic frequency can be identified. Firstly, a correlation coefficient maximum criterion is employed to find one of the optimal parameters of the impulsive wavelet. Then, the other parameter is optimized by the minimum Shannon wavelet entropy criterion. Finally, the impulsive wavelet filter with optimal parameters is applied to extract the fault characteristic frequency. Simulation signals are applied to verify the efficiency of the proposed approach, and comparison analysis is conducted as well. Further, the proposed method is applied to detect the gear fault of a gearbox. The experimental results show that the proposed method is effective with high efficiency.

Helicopter main reduction planetary gear fault diagnosis method based on SVDD

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 137-145
Author(s):  
Yubin Xia ◽  
Dakai Liang ◽  
Guo Zheng ◽  
Jingling Wang ◽  
Jie Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Planetary Gear ◽  
Gaussian Kernel ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Support Vector Data Description ◽  
Vector Data ◽  
Energy Characteristics ◽  
Gear Fault ◽  
Channel Information ◽  
Diagnosis Method

Aiming at the irregularity of the fault characteristics of the helicopter main reducer planetary gear, a fault diagnosis method based on support vector data description (SVDD) is proposed. The working condition of the helicopter is complex and changeable, and the fault characteristics of the planetary gear also show irregularity with the change of working conditions. It is impossible to diagnose the fault by the regularity of a single fault feature; so a method of SVDD based on Gaussian kernel function is used. By connecting the energy characteristics and fault characteristics of the helicopter main reducer running state signal and performing vector quantization, the planetary gear of the helicopter main reducer is characterized, and simultaneously couple the multi-channel information, which can accurately characterize the operational state of the planetary gear’s state.

Gear Fault Diagnosis Methods Based on EMD and HMM

2013 ◽  
Vol 333-335 ◽  
pp. 1684-1687
Author(s):  
Bin Wu ◽  
Song He Zhang ◽  
Yue Gang Luo ◽  
Shan Ping Yu
Keyword(s):  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Vibration Signal ◽  
Modulation Amplitude ◽  
Double Frequency ◽  
Gear Mesh ◽  
Gear Fault ◽  
Diagnosis Method ◽  
Modulation Signal ◽  
Gear Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Modulation Sideband

Due to the feature and the forms of motion of the gears, the vibration signal of the gear is mainly the frequency modulation, amplitude modulation, or hybrid modulation signal corresponding to the gear-mesh frequency and its double frequency signal. When faults arise on the gears, the number and shape of the modulation sideband will be changed. The structures and forms of the FM composition differ according to the type of faults. According to the above mentioned characteristic, this essay raises a method to disassemble the gear vibrate signal, points out the formulas to build up characteristic vector, on that basis, the essay raised a gear fault diagnosis method based on EMD and Hidden Markov Model (HMM), this method can identify the working condition of the normal gears, snaggletooth gears, and pitting gears.

The Wavelet Analysis and Processing of Weak Vibration Signal

2011 ◽  
Vol 189-193 ◽  
pp. 1426-1431
Author(s):  
Ze Ning Xu ◽  
Hong Yu Liu ◽  
Yong Guo Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Wavelet Analysis ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Vibration Signal ◽  
Basic Feature ◽  
Wavelet Function ◽  
Fault Analysis ◽  
Bearing Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Gear Fault ◽  
Vibratory Signals

Signal measuring is an important link in machine fault diagnosis. Accurate and reliable fault signals can be achieved by reasonable signal measuring. When the distance between sensor and measuring gear or bearing is comparatively far, the collected signals became weak and disturbed by other vibratory signals in equipments on bearing and gear fault analysis. Useful signals often were submerged in powerful noise, so caused difficult in extracting fault feature. In this paper, according to the feature of vibratory signals in machine test, wavelet analysis basic theory was applied on researching basic feature of wavelet analysis. By selecting suitable wavelet function and applying wavelet elimination noise technology the signal to noise ratio of signal was raised, thus the vibratory impact component can be measured in weak signals. Finally, wavelet analysis was applied on bearing fault diagnosis.

scholarly journals A Reliable Fault Diagnosis Method for a Gearbox System with Varying Rotational Speeds

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 3105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cong Dai Nguyen ◽  
Alexander Prosvirin ◽  
Jong-Myon Kim
Keyword(s):  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Reference Signal ◽  
Vibration Signal ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Health States ◽  
Informative Signal ◽  
Vibration Signals ◽  
Optimal Output ◽  
Gear Fault ◽  
Diagnosis Method

The vibration signals of gearbox gear fault signatures are informative components that can be used for gearbox fault diagnosis and early fault detection. However, the vibration signals are normally non-linear and non-stationary, and they contain background noise caused by data acquisition systems and the interference of other machine elements. Especially in conditions with varying rotational speeds, the informative components are blended with complex, unwanted components inside the vibration signal. Thus, to use the informative components from a vibration signal for gearbox fault diagnosis, the noise needs to be properly distilled from the informational signal as much as possible before analysis. This paper proposes a novel gearbox fault diagnosis method based on an adaptive noise reducer–based Gaussian reference signal (ANR-GRS) technique that can significantly reduce noise and improve classification from a one-against-one, multiclass support vector machine (OAOMCSVM) for the fault types of a gearbox. The ANR-GRS processes the shaft rotation speed to access and remove noise components in the narrowbands between two consecutive sideband frequencies along the frequency spectrum of a vibration signal, enabling the removal of enormous noise components with minimal distortion to the informative signal. The optimal output signal from the ANR-GRS is then extracted into many signal feature vectors to generate a qualified classification dataset. Finally, the OAOMCSVM classifies the health states of an experimental gearbox using the dataset of extracted features. The signal processing and classification paths are generated using the experimental testbed. The results indicate that the proposed method is reliable for fault diagnosis in a varying rotational speed gearbox system.

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