scholarly journals Design of sEMG Acquisition Circuit and Its Adaptive EEMD Denosing Research

Author(s):  
Wei Li ◽  
Wei Hu ◽  
Kun Hu ◽  
Qiang Qin

The Surface electromyography (sEMG) signal is a kind of electrical signal which generated by human muscles during contraction. It is prone to being affected by noise because of its small amplitude, so it is necessary to remove the noise in its original signal with an appropriate algorithm. Based on the traditional signal denoising indicators, a new complex indicator r has been proposed in this paper which combines three different indicator parameters, that is, Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR), correlation coefficient (R), and standard error (SE). At the same time, an adaptive ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) method named AIO-EEMD which based on the proposed indicator is represented later. To verify the effective of the proposed algorithm, an electromyography signal acquisition circuit is designed firstly for collecting the original sEMG signal. Then, the denosing performance from the designed method is been compared with empirical mode decomposition (EMD) method and wavelet transform noise reduction method, respectively. The experiment results shown that the designed algorithm can not only automatically get the numbers of the reconstructed signal numbers, but also obtain the best reduction performance.

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 1248
Author(s):  
Rafia Nishat Toma ◽  
Cheol-Hong Kim ◽  
Jong-Myon Kim

Condition monitoring is used to track the unavoidable phases of rolling element bearings in an induction motor (IM) to ensure reliable operation in domestic and industrial machinery. The convolutional neural network (CNN) has been used as an effective tool to recognize and classify multiple rolling bearing faults in recent times. Due to the nonlinear and nonstationary nature of vibration signals, it is quite difficult to achieve high classification accuracy when directly using the original signal as the input of a convolution neural network. To evaluate the fault characteristics, ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) is implemented to decompose the signal into multiple intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) in this work. Then, based on the kurtosis value, insignificant IMFs are filtered out and the original signal is reconstructed with the rest of the IMFs so that the reconstructed signal contains the fault characteristics. After that, the 1-D reconstructed vibration signal is converted into a 2-D image using a continuous wavelet transform with information from the damage frequency band. This also transfers the signal into a time-frequency domain and reduces the nonstationary effects of the vibration signal. Finally, the generated images of various fault conditions, which possess a discriminative pattern relative to the types of faults, are used to train an appropriate CNN model. Additionally, with the reconstructed signal, two different methods are used to create an image to compare with our proposed image creation approach. The vibration signal is collected from a self-designed testbed containing multiple bearings of different fault conditions. Two other conventional CNN architectures are compared with our proposed model. Based on the results obtained, it can be concluded that the image generated with fault signatures not only accurately classifies multiple faults with CNN but can also be considered as a reliable and stable method for the diagnosis of fault bearings.


Author(s):  
Wei Guo

Condition monitoring and fault diagnosis for rolling element bearings is an imperative part for preventive maintenance procedures and reliability improvement of rotating machines. When a localized fault occurs at the early stage of real bearing failures, the impulses generated by the defect are relatively weak and usually overwhelmed by large noise and other higher-level macro-structural vibrations generated by adjacent machine components and machines. To indicate the bearing faulty state as early as possible, it is necessary to develop an effective signal processing method for extracting the weak bearing signal from a vibration signal containing multiple vibration sources. The ensemble empirical mode decomposition (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 bands of simple signal components. However, the energy dispersion and many redundant components make the decomposition result obtained by the EEMD losing the physical significance. In this paper, to enhance the decomposition performance of the EEMD method, the similarity criterion and the corresponding combination technique are proposed to determine the similar signal components and then generate the real mono-component signals. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed method, it is applied to analyze raw vibration signals collected from two faulty bearings, each of which involves more than one vibration sources. The results demonstrate that the proposed method can accurately extract the bearing feature signal; meanwhile, it makes the physical meaning of each IMF clear.


MAUSAM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 423-430
Author(s):  
K. BOODHOO ◽  
M. R. LOLLCHUND ◽  
A. F. DILMAHAMOD

In this paper, we propose the use of the Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD) method in the analysis of trends in climate data. As compared to existing traditional methods, EEMD is simple, fast and reliable. It works by decomposing the time-series data into intrinsic mode functions until a residual component is obtained which represents the trend in the data. The dataset considered consists of satellite precipitation estimates (SPE) obtained from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) for the tropical South-West Indian Ocean (SWIO) basin recorded during the periods January 1998 to December 2013. The SWIO basin spans from the latitudes 5° S to 35° S and the longitudes 30° E to 70° E and comprises of part of the east coast of Africa and some small island developing states (SIDS) such as Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius and Reunion Island. The EEMD analysis is carried out for summer, winter and yearly time series of the SPE data. The results from the study are presented in terms of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) and the trends. The analysis reveals that in summer, there is a tendency to have an increase in the amount of rainfall, whereas in winter, from 1998 to 2004 there has been an initial increase of 0.0022 mm/hr/year and from there onwards till 2013 a decrease of 0.00052 mm/hr/year was noted.  


2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Peng Xue ◽  
Huiyu Liu ◽  
Mingyang Zhang ◽  
Haibo Gong ◽  
Li Cao

Monitoring vegetation net primary productivity (NPP) is very important for evaluating ecosystem health. However, the nonlinear characteristics of the vegetation NPP remain unclear in the six provinces along the Maritime Silk Road in China. In this study, using NDVI and meteorological data from 1982 to 2015, NPP was estimated with the Carnegie-Ames-Stanford Approach (CASA) model based on vegetation type dynamics, and its nonlinear characteristics were explored through the ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) method. The results showed that: (1) The total NPP in the changed vegetation types caused by ecological engineering and urbanization increased but decreased in those caused by agricultural reclamation and vegetation destruction, (2) the vegetation NPP was dominated by interannual variations, mainly in the middle of the study area, while by long-term trends, mainly in the southwest and northeast, (3) for most of the vegetation types, NPP was dominated by the monotonically increasing trend. Although vegetation NPP in the urban land mainly showed a decreasing trend (monotonic decrease and decrease from increase), there were large areas in which NPP increased from decreasing. Although vegetation NPP in the farmland mainly showed increasing trends, there were large areas that faced the risk of NPP decreasing; (4) dynamical changes of vegetation type by agricultural reclamation and vegetation destruction made the NPP trend monotonically decrease in large areas, leading to ecosystem degradation, while those caused by urbanization and ecological engineering mainly made the NPP increase from decreasing, leading to later recovery from early degradation. Our results highlighted the importance of vegetation type dynamics for accurately estimating vegetation NPP, as well as for assessing their impacts, and the importance of nonlinear analysis for deepening our understanding of vegetation NPP changes.


2012 ◽  
Vol 518-523 ◽  
pp. 3887-3890 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Chen ◽  
Shang Xu Wang ◽  
Xiao Yu Chuai ◽  
Zhen Zhang

This paper presents a random noise reduction method based on ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) and wavelet threshold filtering. Firstly, we have conducted spectrum analysis and analyzed the frequency band range of effective signals and noise. Secondly, we make use of EEMD method on seismic signals to obtain intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) of each trace. Then, wavelet threshold noise reduction method is used on the high frequency IMFs of each trace to obtain new high frequency IMFs. Finally, reconstruct the desired signal by adding the new high frequency IMFs on the low frequency IMFs and the trend item together. When applying our method on synthetic seismic record and field data we can get good results.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peiming Shi ◽  
Cuijiao Su ◽  
Dongying Han

An adaptive stochastic resonance and analytical mode decomposition-ensemble empirical mode decomposition (AMD-EEMD) method is proposed for fault diagnosis of rotating machinery in this paper. Firstly, the stochastic resonance system is optimized by particle swarm optimization (PSO), and the best structure parameters are obtained. Then, the signal with noise is put into the stochastic resonance system and denoising and enhancing the signal. Secondly, the signal output from the stochastic resonance system is extracted by analytical mode decomposition (AMD) method. Finally, the signal is decomposed by ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) method. The simulation results show that the optimal stochastic resonance system can effectively improve the signal-to-noise ratio, and the number of effective components of EEMD decomposition is significantly reduced after using AMD, thus improving the decomposition results of EEMD and enhancing the amplitude of components frequency. Through the extraction of the rolling bearing fault signal feature proved that the method has a good effect.


2011 ◽  
Vol 128-129 ◽  
pp. 154-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lue Chen ◽  
Ge Shi Tang ◽  
Yan Yang Zi ◽  
Fei Fan

Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD) is a new noise-assisted data analysis (NADA) method. The effect of EEMD depends on two key parameters which are the amplitude of white noise and the ensemble times. However, the shortcoming of EEMD is that it lacks adaptability and reliability because these two key important parameters are obtained by experience and human intervention. An Improved Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition method is proposed in this paper, by adding white noise and ascertaining ensemble number adaptively. The criterion of adding white noise in Improved EEMD is established, by which a composite simulation signal could be adaptively and accurately decomposed into IMFs without mode mixing. The proposed method is applied to a gear fault detection of hot strip finishing mills. The result shows that Improved EEMD method successfully extracts the gear fault feature with high precise diagnosis results.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 2771-2774

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a graphical visualization of the electrical activity of human heart. The biomedical signal, such as ECG, has a major issue of separating the pure signal from artifacts due to baseline wander (BW), electrode artifacts, muscle artifacts, and power-line interference. Reduction of these artifacts is vital for clinical purposes for diagnosis and interpretation of the human heart condition. This paper presents removal of BW from ECG using ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EMD) with multiband filtering approach. A comparative performance analysis of EMD and ensemble EMD for synthetic as well as real BW on normal sinus rhythm and arrhythmia ECG signal are presented. This method can remove the BW in different inherent signal to noise ratio (SNR) including negative and positive as well. This method shows that quantitative and qualitative results with miniscule signal distortion via experiments on several ECG records.


Author(s):  
Rajesh Birok, Et. al.

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a documentation of the electrical activities of the heart. It is used to identify a number of cardiac faults such as arrhythmias, AF etc.  Quite often the ECG gets corrupted by various kinds of artifacts, thus in order to gain correct information from them, they must first be denoised. This paper presents a novel approach for the filtering of low frequency artifacts of ECG signals by using Complete Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (CEED) and Neural Networks, which removes most of the constituent noise while assuring no loss of information in terms of the morphology of the ECG signal. The contribution of the method lies in the fact that it combines the advantages of both EEMD and ANN. The use of CEEMD ensures that the Neural Network does not get over fitted. It also significantly helps in building better predictors at individual frequency levels. The proposed method is compared with other state-of-the-art methods in terms of Mean Square Error (MSE), Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) and Correlation Coefficient. The results show that the proposed method has better performance as compared to other state-of-the-art methods for low frequency artifacts removal from EEG.  


Author(s):  
MD Erfanul Alam ◽  
Biswanath Samanta

Electroencephalography measures the sum of the post-synaptic potentials generated by many neurons having the same radial orientation with respect to the scalp. The electroen-cephalographic signals (EEG) are weak and often contaminated with different artifacts that have biological and external sources. Reliable pre-processing of the noisy, non-linear, and non-stationary brain activity signals is needed for successful extraction of characteristic features in motor imagery based brain-computer interface (MI-BCI). In this work, a signal processing technique, namely, empirical mode decomposition (EMD), has been proposed for processing EEG signals acquired from volunteer subjects for characterization and identification of motor imagery (MI) activities. EMD has been used for removal of artifacts like electrooculography (EOG) that strongly appears in frontal electrodes of EEG and the power line noise that is mainly produced by the fluorescent light. The performance of EMD has been compared with two extensions, ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) and multivariate empirical mode decomposition (MEMD)using signal to noise ratio (SNR). The maximum SNR values found for EMD, EEMD and MEMD are 4.30, 7.64 and 10.62 respectively for the EEG signals considered.


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