Bearing fault diagnosis of a wind turbine based on variational mode decomposition and permutation entropy

2017 ◽  
Vol 231 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xueli An ◽  
Luoping Pan
Keyword(s):  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Roller Bearing ◽  
Permutation Entropy ◽  
Variational Mode Decomposition ◽  
Vibration Signals ◽  
Bearing Fault ◽  
Bearing Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Mode Decomposition

Variational mode decomposition is a new signal decomposition method, which can process non-linear and non-stationary signals. It can overcome the problems of mode mixing and compensate for the shortcomings in empirical mode decomposition. Permutation entropy is a method which can detect the randomness and kinetic mutation behavior of a time series. It can be considered for use in fault diagnosis. The complexity of wind power generation systems means that the randomness and kinetic mutation behavior of their vibration signals are displayed at different scales. Multi-scale permutation entropy analysis is therefore needed for such vibration signals. This research investigated a method based on variational mode decomposition and permutation entropy for the fault diagnosis of a wind turbine roller bearing. Variational mode decomposition was adopted to decompose the bearing vibration signal into its constituent components. The components containing key fault information were selected for the extraction of their permutation entropy. This entropy was used as a bearing fault characteristic value. The nearest neighbor algorithm was employed as a classifier to identify faults in a roller bearing. The experimental data showed that the proposed method can be applied to wind turbine roller bearing fault diagnosis.

Wind turbine bearing fault diagnosis based on adaptive local iterative filtering and approximate entropy

2016 ◽  
Vol 231 (17) ◽  
pp. 3228-3237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xueli An ◽  
Luoping Pan
Keyword(s):  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Roller Bearing ◽  
Approximate Entropy ◽  
Vibration Signals ◽  
Outer Race ◽  
Bearing Fault ◽  
Bearing Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Iterative Filtering

For the unsteady characteristics of a fault vibration signal from a wind turbine rolling bearing, a bearing fault diagnosis method based on adaptive local iterative filtering and approximate entropy is proposed. The adaptive local iterative filtering method is used to decompose original vibration signals into a finite number of stationary components. The components which comprise major fault information are selected for further analysis. The approximate entropy of the selected components is calculated as a fault feature value and input to a fault classifier. The classifier is based on the nearest neighbor algorithm. The vibration signals from a spherical roller bearing on a wind turbine in its normal state, with an outer race fault, an inner race fault and a roller fault are analyzed. The results show that the proposed method can accurately and efficiently identify the fault modes present in the rolling bearings of a wind turbine.

Application of variational mode decomposition energy distribution to bearing fault diagnosis in a wind turbine

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (7) ◽  
pp. 1000-1006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xueli An ◽  
Yongjun Tang
Keyword(s):  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Energy Distribution ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Roller Bearing ◽  
Vibration Signal ◽  
Rolling Bearing ◽  
Variational Mode Decomposition ◽  
Bearing Fault ◽  
Bearing Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Mode Decomposition

For the unsteady characteristics of a fault vibration signal of a wind turbine’s rolling bearing, a bearing fault diagnosis method based on variational mode decomposition of the energy distribution is proposed. Firstly, variational mode decomposition is used to decompose the original vibration signal into a finite number of stationary components. Then, some components which comprise the major fault information are selected for further analysis. When a rolling bearing fault occurs, the energy in different frequency bands of the vibration acceleration signals will change. Energy characteristic parameters can then be extracted from each component as the input parameters of the classifier, based on the K nearest neighbour algorithm. This can identify the type of fault in the rolling bearing. The vibration signals from a spherical roller bearing in its normal state, with an outer race fault, with an inner race fault and with a roller fault were analyzed. The results showed that the proposed method (variational mode decomposition is used as a pre-processor to extract the energy of each frequency band as the characteristic parameter) can identify the working state and fault type of rolling bearings in a wind turbine.

scholarly journals Feature Extraction Strategy with Improved Permutation Entropy and Its Application in Fault Diagnosis of Bearings

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fan Jiang ◽  
Zhencai Zhu ◽  
Wei Li ◽  
Bo Wu ◽  
Zhe Tong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Optimal Number ◽  
Permutation Entropy ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Intrinsic Mode Functions ◽  
Vibration Signals ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Bearing Fault ◽  
Bearing Fault Diagnosis

Feature extraction is one of the most difficult aspects of mechanical fault diagnosis, and it is directly related to the accuracy of bearing fault diagnosis. In this study, improved permutation entropy (IPE) is defined as the feature for bearing fault diagnosis. In this method, ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD), a self-adaptive time-frequency analysis method, is used to process the vibration signals, and a set of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) can thus be obtained. A feature extraction strategy based on statistical analysis is then presented for IPE, where the so-called optimal number of permutation entropy (PE) values used for an IPE is adaptively selected. The obtained IPE-based samples are then input to a support vector machine (SVM) model. Subsequently, a trained SVM can be constructed as the classifier for bearing fault diagnosis. Finally, experimental vibration signals are applied to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method, and the results show that the proposed method can effectively and accurately diagnose bearing faults, such as inner race faults, outer race faults, and ball faults.

Roller Bearing Fault Diagnosis Based on IMF Kurtosis and SVM

2013 ◽  
Vol 694-697 ◽  
pp. 1160-1166
Author(s):  
Ke Heng Zhu ◽  
Xi Geng Song ◽  
Dong Xin Xue
Keyword(s):  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Roller Bearing ◽  
Fault Classification ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Bearing Fault ◽  
Bearing Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Mode Decomposition ◽  
Diagnosis Method ◽  
Bearing Vibration ◽  
The Imf

This paper presents a fault diagnosis method of roller bearings based on intrinsic mode function (IMF) kurtosis and support vector machine (SVM). In order to improve the performance of kurtosis under strong levels of background noise, the empirical mode decomposition (EMD) method is used to decompose the bearing vibration signals into a number of IMFs. The IMF kurtosis is then calculated because of its sensitivity of impulses caused by faults. Subsequently, the IMF kurtosis values are treated as fault feature vectors and input into SVM for fault classification. The experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed approach in roller bearing fault diagnosis.

Rolling Bearing Fault Diagnosis Based on Wavelet Packet and Improved BP Neural Network for Wind Turbines

2013 ◽  
Vol 347-350 ◽  
pp. 117-120
Author(s):  
Zhao Ran Hou
Keyword(s):  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Frequency Domain ◽  
Wind Turbines ◽  
Wavelet Packet ◽  
Roller Bearing ◽  
Rolling Bearing ◽  
Transmission System ◽  
Bearing Fault ◽  
Bearing Fault Diagnosis

Vibration signal was a carrier of fault features of the wind turbine transmission system, it can reflect most of the fault information of the wind turbine transmission system. According to the frequency domain features of the roller bearing fault, wavelet packet transform for feature extraction was proposed as the characteristics of wind turbines in the presence of a large number of transient and non-stationary signals. The characteristics of wavelet packet was analyzed, combined with the wind turbines in the rolling bearing fault characteristic vibration extraction methods, the rolling bearing fault diagnosis was realized through the wavelet packet decomposition and reconstruction, the procedure was given. The simulation result shows that this application can reflect relationship of the failure characteristics and frequency domain feature vectors, also the nonlinear mapping ability of neural networks was played and the fault diagnosis capability enhanced.

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