scholarly journals Research on Multi-Domain Fault Diagnosis of Gearbox of Wind Turbine Based on Adaptive Variational Mode Decomposition and Extreme Learning Machine Algorithms

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Li ◽  
Bangji Fan ◽  
Rong Jia ◽  
Fang Zhai ◽  
Liang Bai ◽  
...  

Since variational mode decomposition (VMD) was proposed, it has been widely used in condition monitoring and fault diagnosis of mechanical equipment. However, the parameters K and α in the VMD algorithm need to be set before decomposition, which causes VMD to be unable to decompose adaptively and obtain the best result for signal decomposition. Therefore, this paper optimizes the VMD algorithm. On this basis, this paper also proposes a method of multi-domain feature extraction of signals and combines an extreme learning machine (ELM) to realize comprehensive and accurate fault diagnosis. First, VMD is optimized according to the improved grey wolf optimizer; second, the feature vectors of the time, frequency, and time-frequency domains are calculated, which are synthesized after dimensionality reduction; ultimately, the synthesized vectors are input into the ELM for training and classification. The experimental results show that the proposed method can decompose the signal adaptively, which produces the best decomposition parameters and results. Moreover, this method can extract the fault features of the signal more completely to realize accurate fault identification.

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 4477-4492
Author(s):  
M. Firdaus Isham ◽  
M. Salman Leong ◽  
L. M. Hee ◽  
Z. A. B. Ahmad

Vibration-based monitoring and diagnosis provide an excellent and reliable monitoring strategies for maintaining and sustaining a million dollars of industrial assets. The signal processing method is one of the key elements in gearbox fault diagnosis for extracting most useful information from raw vibration signals. Variational mode decomposition (VMD) is one of the recent signal processing methods that helps to solve many limitations in traditional signal processing method. However, pre-determine the input parameters especially the mode number become a challenging task for using this method. Then, this study aims to propose an iterative approach for selecting the mode number for the VMD method by using the normalized mean value (NMV) plot. The NMV value is calculates based on the ratio of a summation of VMD modes and the input signals. The result shows that the proposed iterative VMD approach can select an accurate mode number for the VMD method. Then, the vibration signals decomposed into different VMD modes and used for gearbox fault diagnosis. Statistical features have been extracted from the selected VMD modes and pass into extreme learning machine (ELM) for fault classification. Iterative VMD-ELM provide significance improvement of about 20% higher accuracy in classification result as compared with EMD-ELM. Hence, this research study offers a new mean for gearbox diagnosis strategy.  


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Yijiao Wang ◽  
Guoguang Zhou

In order to improve the diagnosis accuracies of the current diagnosis methods, a novel fault diagnosis method of automobile gearbox based on novel successive variational mode decomposition and weighted regularized extreme learning machine is presented for fault diagnosis of gearbox in this paper. The novel successive variational mode decomposition (SVMD) is presented to improve the traditional variational mode decomposition, which finds modes one after the other, and this succession helps increase convergence rate and also not extract the unwanted modes; weighted regularized extreme learning machine (WRELM) is presented to improve the traditional extreme learning machine, which uses the weight of each sample with the nonparametric kernel density estimation and can find the optimal weight for each sample. The test results indicate that the diagnosis accuracy of SVMD-WRELM for gearbox is better than that of VMD-WRELM, VMD-ELM.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 2599
Author(s):  
Zhenbao Li ◽  
Wanlu Jiang ◽  
Sheng Zhang ◽  
Yu Sun ◽  
Shuqing Zhang

To address the problem that the faults in axial piston pumps are complex and difficult to effectively diagnose, an integrated hydraulic pump fault diagnosis method based on the modified ensemble empirical mode decomposition (MEEMD), autoregressive (AR) spectrum energy, and wavelet kernel extreme learning machine (WKELM) methods is presented in this paper. First, the non-linear and non-stationary hydraulic pump vibration signals are decomposed into several intrinsic mode function (IMF) components by the MEEMD method. Next, AR spectrum analysis is performed for each IMF component, in order to extract the AR spectrum energy of each component as fault characteristics. Then, a hydraulic pump fault diagnosis model based on WKELM is built, in order to extract the features and diagnose faults of hydraulic pump vibration signals, for which the recognition accuracy reached 100%. Finally, the fault diagnosis effect of the hydraulic pump fault diagnosis method proposed in this paper is compared with BP neural network, support vector machine (SVM), and extreme learning machine (ELM) methods. The hydraulic pump fault diagnosis method presented in this paper can diagnose faults of single slipper wear, single slipper loosing and center spring wear type with 100% accuracy, and the fault diagnosis time is only 0.002 s. The results demonstrate that the integrated hydraulic pump fault diagnosis method based on MEEMD, AR spectrum, and WKELM methods has higher fault recognition accuracy and faster speed than existing alternatives.


Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 3510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhijian Wang ◽  
Junyuan Wang ◽  
Wenhua Du

Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD) can decompose signals into multiple intrinsic mode functions (IMFs). In recent years, VMD has been widely used in fault diagnosis. However, it requires a preset number of decomposition layers K and is sensitive to background noise. Therefore, in order to determine K adaptively, Permutation Entroy Optimization (PEO) is proposed in this paper. This algorithm can adaptively determine the optimal number of decomposition layers K according to the characteristics of the signal to be decomposed. At the same time, in order to solve the sensitivity of VMD to noise, this paper proposes a Modified VMD (MVMD) based on the idea of Noise Aided Data Analysis (NADA). The algorithm first adds the positive and negative white noise to the original signal, and then uses the VMD to decompose it. After repeated cycles, the noise in the original signal will be offset to each other. Then each layer of IMF is integrated with each layer, and the signal is reconstructed according to the results of the integrated mean. MVMD is used for the final decomposition of the reconstructed signal. The algorithm is used to deal with the simulation signals and measured signals of gearbox with multiple fault characteristics. Compared with the decomposition results of EEMD and VMD, it shows that the algorithm can not only improve the signal to noise ratio (SNR) of the signal effectively, but can also extract the multiple fault features of the gear box in the strong noise environment. The effectiveness of this method is verified.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
tingyu jiang ◽  
Sheng Hong ◽  
Hao Liu

Abstract In order to achieve accurate fault diagnosis of rolling bearing under random noise, a new fault diagnosis method based on wavelet packet-variational mode decomposition (WP-VMD) and kernel extreme learning machine (KELM) optimized by particle swarm optimization (PSO) is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the time-frequency domain feature vectors of the original rolling bearing fault signals are effectively obtained by preprocessing of WMD and decomposition and reconstruction of VMD. Then, the extracted two-dimensional feature vector is input into the KELM neural network for fault identification, and combined with PSO, KELM parameters were optimized. The experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively diagnose the rolling bearing under random noise, with the features of fast speed, stable performance and high accuracy. By comparison, this paper obtains better accuracy and real-time performance with fewer features, which provides a simple and efficient solution for fault diagnosis of rolling bearings.


Author(s):  
Xueli An ◽  
Fei Zhang

According to the non-stationary characteristic of rotating machinery vibration signals of a rotor system with a loose pedestal fault, variational mode decomposition was applied in the pedestal looseness fault diagnosis for such a rotor system. Variational mode decomposition is used to decompose the rotor vibration signal into several stable components. This can achieve the separation of the pedestal looseness fault signal from the background signals, and extract the fault characteristic of a vibration signal from a rotor system with pedestal looseness. Experimental data from a rotor system with pedestal looseness were used to verify the proposed method. The results showed that the stable components of the rotor vibration signal obtained by variational mode decomposition have obvious amplitude modulation characteristics. The components which contain fault information were analyzed by envelope demodulation, which can extract the pedestal looseness fault features of a rotor vibration signal. Therefore, the variational mode decomposition method can be effectively applied to the pedestal looseness fault diagnosis of such a rotor system.


2021 ◽  
pp. 0309524X2110385
Author(s):  
Lian Lian ◽  
Kan He

The main purpose of this paper is to improve the prediction accuracy of ultra-short-term wind speed. It is difficult to predict the ultra-short-term wind speed because of its unstable, non-stationary and non-linear. Aiming at the unstable and non-stationary characteristics of ultra-short-term wind speed, the variational mode decomposition algorithm is introduced to decompose the ultra-short-term wind speed data, and a series of stable and stationary components with different frequencies are obtained. The extreme learning machine with good prediction performance and real-time performance is selected as the prediction model of decomposed components. In order to solve the problem of random setting of input weights and bias of extreme learning machine, whale optimization algorithm is used to optimize extreme learning machine to improve the regression performance. The performance of the developed prediciton model is verified by real ultra-short-term wind speed sample data. Five prediction models are selected as the comparison model. Through the comparison between the predicted value and the actual value, the prediction error and its histogram distribution, eight performance indicators, and Pearson’s test correlation coefficient, the results show that the proposed prediction model has high prediction accuracy.


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