scholarly journals Fuzzy C-Means Based Clustering and Rule Formation Approach for Classification of Bearing Faults Using Discrete Wavelet Transform

Computation ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anbu ◽  
Thangavelu ◽  
Ashok

The rolling bearings are considered as the heart of rotating machinery and early fault diagnosis is one of the biggest challenges during operation. Due to complicated mechanical assemblies, detection of the advancing fault and faults at the incipient stage is very difficult and tedious. This work presents a fuzzy rule based classification of bearing faults using Fuzzy C-means clustering method using vibration measurements. Experiments were conducted to collect the vibration signals of a normal bearing and bearings with faults in the inner race, outer race and ball fault. Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) technique is used to decompose the vibration signals into different frequency bands. In order to detect the early faults in the bearings, various statistical features were extracted from this decomposed signal of each frequency band. Based on the extracted features, Fuzzy C-means clustering method (FCM) is developed to classify the faults using suitable membership functions and fuzzy rule base is developed for each class of the bearing fault using labeled data. The experimental results show that the proposed method is able to classify the condition of the bearing using the extracted features. The proposed FCM based clustering and classification model provides easier interpretation and implementation for monitoring the condition of the rolling bearings at an early stage and it will be helpful to take the preventive action before a large-scale failure.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jen Looi Tee ◽  
Swee King Phang ◽  
Wei Jen Chew ◽  
Siew Wei Phang ◽  
Hou Kit Mun

Author(s):  
Y Srinivasa Rao ◽  
G. Ravi Kumar ◽  
G. Kesava Rao

An appropriate fault detection and classification of power system transmission line using discrete wavelet transform and artificial neural networks is performed in this paper. The analysis is carried out by applying discrete wavelet transform for obtained fault phase currents. The work represented in this paper are mainly concentrated on classification of fault and this classification is done based on the obtained energy values after applying discrete wavelet transform by taking this values as an input for the neural network. The proposed system and analysis is carried out in Matlab Simulink.


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