scholarly journals A Parameter-Optimized Variational Mode Decomposition Investigation for Fault Feature Extraction of Rolling Element Bearings

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Guoping An ◽  
Qingbin Tong ◽  
Yanan Zhang ◽  
Ruifang Liu ◽  
Weili Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vibration Signal ◽  
Mode Number ◽  
Rolling Element Bearings ◽  
Vibration Signals ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Mode Decomposition ◽  
Rolling Element ◽  
Bandwidth Control ◽  
Bearing Vibration ◽  
Optimal Mode

Reliable fault diagnosis of the rolling element bearings highly relies on the correct extraction of fault-related features from vibration signals in time-frequency analysis. However, considering the nonlinear, nonstationary characteristics of vibration signals, the extraction of fault features hidden in the heavy noise has become a challenging task. Variable mode decomposition (VMD) is an adaptive, completely nonrecursive method of mode variation and signal processing. This paper analyzes the advantages of VMD compared with EMD in robustness of against noise, overcoming the end effect and mode aliasing. The signal decomposition performance of VMD algorithm largely depends on the selection of mode number k and bandwidth control parameter α. To realize the adaptability of influence parameters and the improvement of decomposition accuracy, a parameter-optimized VMD method is presented. The random frog leaping algorithm (SFLA) is used to search the optimal combination of influence parameters, and the mode number and bandwidth control parameters are set according to the search results. A multiobjective evaluation function is constructed to select the optimal mode component. The envelope spectrum technique is used to analyze the optimal mode component. The proposed method is evaluated by simulation and practical bearing vibration signals under different conditions. The results show that the proposed method can improve the decomposition accuracy of the signal and the adaptability of the influence parameters and realize the effective extraction of the bearing vibration signal.

scholarly journals An Improved Variational Mode Decomposition and Its Application on Fault Feature Extraction of Rolling Element Bearing

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 1079
Author(s):  
Guoping An ◽  
Qingbin Tong ◽  
Yanan Zhang ◽  
Ruifang Liu ◽  
Weili Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Optimization Problem ◽  
Rolling Element Bearing ◽  
Vibration Signals ◽  
Mode Decomposition ◽  
Rolling Element ◽  
Element Bearing ◽  
Bearing Vibration ◽  
Optimal Mode ◽  
Fault Feature Extraction

The fault diagnosis of rolling element bearing is of great significance to avoid serious accidents and huge economic losses. However, the characteristics of the nonlinear, non-stationary vibration signals make the fault feature extraction of signal become a challenging work. This paper proposes an improved variational mode decomposition (IVMD) algorithm for the fault feature extraction of rolling bearing, which has the advantages of extracting the optimal fault feature from the decomposed mode and overcoming the noise interference. The Shuffled Frog Leap Algorithm (SFLA) is employed in the optimal adaptive selection of mode number K and bandwidth control parameter α. A multi-objective evaluation function, which is based on the envelope entropy, kurtosis and correlation coefficients, is constructed to select the optimal mode component. The efficiency coefficient method (ECM) is utilized to transform the multi-objective optimization problem into a single-objective optimization problem. The envelope spectrum technique is used to analyze the signals reconstructed by the optimal mode components. The proposed IVMD method is evaluated by simulation and practical bearing vibration signals under different conditions. The results show that the proposed method can improve the decomposition accuracy of the signal and the adaptability of the influence parameters and realize the effective extraction of the bearing vibration signal.

Diagnosis of Machinery Fault Status using Transient Vibration Signal Parameters

2002 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhidong Chen ◽  
Chris K. Mechefske
Keyword(s):  
Vibration Signal ◽  
Rolling Element Bearings ◽  
Machine Condition ◽  
Transient Vibration ◽  
Vibration Signals ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Machine Condition Monitoring ◽  
Signal Parameters ◽  
Rolling Element ◽  
Efficient Machine

This paper reports the results of an investigation in which a Prony model based method is developed. The method shows potential for analysing transient vibration signals. An example is included that shows how the procedure was employed to analyse the transient vibration signals created from faulty low speed rolling element bearings. Spectral plots generated by applying the procedure to very short data samples, as well as trending parameters based on these spectral estimations and Prony parameters, are presented. An equation was also derived to quantitatively determine the fault status. It is shown that application of the Prony model based method has the potential to be an effective as well as efficient machine condition monitoring and diagnostic tool where short duration transient vibration signals are being generated.

Compound fault diagnosis of rolling element bearings using multipoint sparsity–multipoint optimal minimum entropy deconvolution adjustment and adaptive resonance-based signal sparse decomposition

2020 ◽  
pp. 107754632093819
Author(s):  
Ji Fan ◽  
Yongsheng Qi ◽  
Xuejin Gao ◽  
Yongting Li ◽  
Lin Wang
Keyword(s):  
Search Algorithm ◽  
Harmonic Signal ◽  
Vibration Signal ◽  
Cuckoo Search ◽  
Permutation Entropy ◽  
Rolling Element Bearings ◽  
Minimum Entropy ◽  
Vibration Signals ◽  
Sparse Decomposition ◽  
Rolling Element

The rolling element bearings used in rotating machinery generally include multiple coexisting defects. However, individual defect–induced signals of bearings simultaneously arising from multiple defects are difficult to extract from measured vibration signals because the impulse-like fault signals are very weak, and the vibration signal is commonly affected by the transmission path and various sources of interference. This issue is addressed in this study by proposing a new compound fault feature extraction scheme. Vibration signals are first preprocessed using resonance-based signal sparse decomposition to obtain the low-resonance component of the signal, which contains the information related to the transient fault–induced impulse signals, and reduce the interference of discrete harmonic signal components and noise. The objective used for adaptively selecting the optimal resonance-based signal sparse decomposition parameters adopts the ratio of permutation entropy to the frequency domain kurtosis, as a new comprehensive index, and the optimization is conducted using the cuckoo search algorithm. Subsequently, we apply multipoint sparsity to the low-resonance component to automatically determine the possible number of impulse signals and their periods according to the peak multipoint sparsity values. This enables the targeted extraction and isolation of fault-induced impulse signal features by multipoint optimal minimum entropy deconvolution adjustment. Finally, the envelope spectrum of the filtered signal is used to identify the individual faults. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is verified by its application to both simulated and experimental compound bearing fault vibration signals with strong interference, and its advantages are confirmed by comparisons of the results with those of an existing state-of-the-art method.

scholarly journals Fault Diagnosis of Rolling Element Bearings with a Two-Step Scheme Based on Permutation Entropy and Random Forests

Entropy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoming Xue ◽  
Chaoshun Li ◽  
Suqun Cao ◽  
Jinchao Sun ◽  
Liyan Liu
Keyword(s):  
Random Forests ◽  
Classification Model ◽  
Permutation Entropy ◽  
Rolling Element Bearings ◽  
Variational Mode Decomposition ◽  
Statistical Classification ◽  
Vibration Signals ◽  
Mode Decomposition ◽  
Single Scale ◽  
Rolling Element

This study presents a two-step fault diagnosis scheme combined with statistical classification and random forests-based classification for rolling element bearings. Considering the inequality of features sensitivity in different diagnosis steps, the proposed method utilizes permutation entropy and variational mode decomposition to depict vibration signals under single scale and multiscale. In the first step, the permutation entropy features on the single scale of original signals are extracted and the statistical classification model based on Chebyshev’s inequality is constructed to detect the faults with a preliminary acquaintance of the bearing condition. In the second step, vibration signals with fault conditions are firstly decomposed into a collection of intrinsic mode functions by using variational mode decomposition and then multiscale permutation entropy features derived from each mono-component are extracted to identify the specific fault types. In order to improve the classification ability of the characteristic data, the out-of-bag estimation of random forests is firstly employed to reelect and refine the original multiscale permutation entropy features. Then the refined features are considered as the input data to train the random forests-based classification model. Finally, the condition data of bearings with different fault conditions are employed to evaluate the performance of the proposed method. The results indicate that the proposed method can effectively identify the working conditions and fault types of rolling element bearings.

Performance degradation assessment of rolling element bearings based on hierarchical entropy and general distance

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (14) ◽  
pp. 3194-3205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keheng Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Degradation Process ◽  
Performance Degradation ◽  
Rolling Element Bearings ◽  
Vibration Signals ◽  
Feature Vectors ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Nonlinear Dynamic Characteristics ◽  
Rolling Element ◽  
Bearing Vibration ◽  
Degradation Indicator

Performance degradation assessment is crucial to realize equipment’s near-zero downtime and maximum productivity. In this paper, a new method for performance degradation assessment of rolling element bearings is proposed based on hierarchical entropy (HE) and general distance. First, considering the nonlinear dynamic characteristics of bearing vibration signals, the HE method is utilized to extract feature vectors, which can obtain more bearing state information hidden in the vibration signals than sample entropy (SampEn) and multi-scale entropy (MSE). Then, the general distance between the feature vectors of the normal data and those of the tested data is designed as a degradation indicator by combining Euclidean distance and cosine angle distance. The experimental results indicate that this indicator can detect the incipient defects well and can effectively reflect the whole degradation process of rolling element bearings. Moreover, the designed indicator has some advantages over kurtosis and root mean square (RMS) values.

Research of Rolling Bearing Fault Feature Extraction Based on EMD and Choi-Williams

2013 ◽  
Vol 694-697 ◽  
pp. 1377-1381
Author(s):  
Xing Chun Wei ◽  
Yu Lin Tang ◽  
Tao Chen
Keyword(s):  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Vibration Signal ◽  
Rolling Bearing ◽  
Outer Ring ◽  
Intrinsic Mode Functions ◽  
Linear Superposition ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Bearing Fault ◽  
Rolling Element ◽  
Bearing Vibration

Aiming at rolling bearing fault signal of the non stationary feature, Apply a new method to the rolling bearing vibration signal of feature extraction, which is combined the Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) and the Choi-Williams distribution. Firstly, original signals were decomposed into a series of intrinsic mode functions (IMF) of different scales. To the decomposed each IMF component for Choi-Williams time-frequency analysis, Then take the linear superposition, finally obtained the rolling bearing vibration signal of Choi-Williams distribution. After the analyses of the rolling bearing inner ring, outer ring and rolling element fault signal ,the results show that this method can effectively suppress the frequency aliasing and interference caused by cross terms. And be able to accurately extract the fault frequency of the bearing inner ring, outer ring and rolling element, lay the foundation for the subsequent rolling bearing state recognition.

An Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition-Based Lossy Signal Compression Method for a Remote and Wireless Bearing Condition Monitoring System

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter W. Tse ◽  
Wei Guo
Keyword(s):  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Empirical Mode Decomposition ◽  
Vibration Signal ◽  
Signal Compression ◽  
Compression Method ◽  
Vibration Signals ◽  
Bearing Fault ◽  
Mode Decomposition ◽  
Bearing Vibration ◽  
Eemd Method

Rolling bearings are one of the most widely used and most likely to fail components in the vast majority of rotating machines. A remote and wireless bearing condition system allows the bearings to be inspected in remote or hazardous environments and increases the machine reliability. To minimize the transmission loads of enormous vibration data for accurate bearing fault diagnosis, a lossy compression method based on ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) method was proposed for bearing vibration signals in this paper. The EEMD method inherits the advantage of the popular empirical mode decomposition (EMD) method and can adaptively decompose a multi-component signal into a number of different frequency bands of signal components called intrinsic mode functions (IMFs). After applying the EEMD method to the vibration signal, the impulsive signal component related to the faulty bearing is extracted. The noise and irrelevant signal components that are often embedded in the collected vibration signals were removed. In the bearing signal, the distribution for most of the extremes is around zero. Almost all meaningful extremes related to the defect are concentrated in a small fraction of the samples. Hence, this signal compression provides high compression ratio for the bearing vibration signal. To verify the effectiveness of this method, raw vibration signals were collected from an experimental motor and a real traction motor. The proposed lossy signal compression method was applied to these vibration signals to extract the bearing signals and compress them. A comparison of this compression method with the popular wavelet compression method was also conducted. Wirelessly transmitting these compressed data demonstrates that the proposed signal compression method provides high compression performance for bearing vibration signals. Furthermore, the fault diagnosis using the reconstructed signal indicates that most of the impulses relating to the bearing fault are retained, including their periodicity and amplitudes, which are vital for accurate bearing fault diagnosis. Therefore, the compression of the bearing vibration signal contributes not only on the decreases of the file size and the transmission time, but also on the extraction of faulty bearing features to improve the accuracy in signal analysis. With the help of this method, wireless data communication for the remote and wireless bearing condition monitoring system becomes highly efficient, even in a limited bandwidth environment and maintains accurate bearing fault detection without loss of features and the need of transmitting a large amount of vibration data.

A general anomaly detection approach applied to rolling element bearings via reduced-dimensionality transition matrix analysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 230 (13) ◽  
pp. 2169-2180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley W Harris ◽  
Michael W Milo ◽  
Michael J Roan
Keyword(s):  
System Modeling ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Matrix Analysis ◽  
Rolling Element Bearings ◽  
Frequency Method ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Vibration Data ◽  
Machine Failure ◽  
Rolling Element ◽  
Bearing Vibration

Rolling element bearings are vital components in most rotating machines. Bearings often operate in harsh environments where manufacturing imperfections, misalignments, and fatigue can result in reduced component lifespan. These failures are often preceded by changes in the normal vibration of the system. Modeling and detecting these vibrational anomalies is common practice in predicting machine failure. This paper develops and implements a novel approach to detecting bearing vibration anomalies in the time–frequency domain. The performance of the new approach is quantified using both simulated and experimental bearing vibration data. In these ground-truth experiments, the proposed time–frequency method successfully detects anomalies (>98% true positive) using short time spans (<0.1 s) with low false alarm rates (<1% false positive). Using experimental data, this time–frequency approach is shown to outperform one-dimensional time series analysis techniques.

Early detection of bearing faults using minimum entropy deconvolution adjusted and zero frequency filter

2021 ◽  
pp. 107754632098636
Author(s):  
Keshav Kumar ◽  
Sumitra Shukla ◽  
Sachin K Singh
Keyword(s):  
Time Domain ◽  
Vibration Signal ◽  
Rolling Element Bearings ◽  
Frequency Filtering ◽  
Minimum Entropy ◽  
Frequency Filter ◽  
Rolling Element ◽  
Zero Frequency Filtering ◽  
Bearing Vibration ◽  
Zero Frequency

A method based on minimum entropy deconvolution with convolution adjustment and zero frequency filter is presented for the identification of weak faults in rolling element bearings. Localized fault present in rolling element bearings causes periodic impulses in the bearing vibration signal. The zero frequency filtering of the bearing vibration signal keeps only the localized disturbances at the impulse locations while attenuating the non-impulsive components of the signal. The effectiveness of zero frequency filtering depends on the strength of impulses present in the measured faulty bearing signal in time domain. In the present work, Minimum entropy deconvolution adjusted is used as a preprocessor to improve the strength of impulses in the measured time-domain bearing signal. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is tested with simulated signals for the faulty bearing vibration at different levels of added Gaussian noise. The algorithm is also validated using experimental bearing vibration dataset. Results from the proposed algorithm are compared with the results of the zero frequency filter and local mean subtraction-based technique for rolling element bearings’ fault identification. The proposed algorithm performs better detection in case of a weak fault signal.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Effectiveness of Wavelet Based Denoising Schemes Using ANN and SVM for Bearing Condition Classification

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vijay G. S. ◽  
Kumar H. S. ◽  
Srinivasa Pai P. ◽  
Sriram N. S. ◽  
Raj B. K. N. Rao
Keyword(s):  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Vibration Signal ◽  
Rolling Element Bearing ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Vibration Signals ◽  
Synthetic Signal ◽  
Rolling Element ◽  
Bearing Vibration ◽  
Artificial Neural Network Ann ◽  
The One

The wavelet based denoising has proven its ability to denoise the bearing vibration signals by improving the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and reducing the root-mean-square error (RMSE). In this paper seven wavelet based denoising schemes have been evaluated based on the performance of the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and the Support Vector Machine (SVM), for the bearing condition classification. The work consists of two parts, the first part in which a synthetic signal simulating the defective bearing vibration signal with Gaussian noise was subjected to these denoising schemes. The best scheme based on the SNR and the RMSE was identified. In the second part, the vibration signals collected from a customized Rolling Element Bearing (REB) test rig for four bearing conditions were subjected to these denoising schemes. Several time and frequency domain features were extracted from the denoised signals, out of which a few sensitive features were selected using the Fisher’s Criterion (FC). Extracted features were used to train and test the ANN and the SVM. The best denoising scheme identified, based on the classification performances of the ANN and the SVM, was found to be the same as the one obtained using the synthetic signal.

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