A novel signal compression method based on optimal ensemble empirical mode decomposition for bearing vibration signals

2013 ◽  
Vol 332 (2) ◽  
pp. 423-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Guo ◽  
Peter W. Tse
Author(s):  
Peter W. Tse ◽  
Wei Guo

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.


Author(s):  
Fengli Wang ◽  
Hua Chen

Rolling bearing is a key part of turbomachinery. The performance and reliability of the bearing is vital to the safe operation of turbomachinery. Therefore, degradation feature extraction of rolling bearing is important to prevent it from failure. During rolling bearing degradation, machine vibration can increase, and this may be used to predict the degradation. The vibration signals are however complicated and nonlinear, making it difficult to extract degradation features effectively. Here, a novel degradation feature extraction method based on optimal ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) and improved composite spectrum (CS) analysis is proposed. Firstly, because only a few IMFs are expected to contain the information related to bearing fault, EEMD is utilized to pre-process the vibration signals. An optimization method is designed for adaptively determining the appropriate EEMD parameters for the signal, so that the significant feature components of the faulty bearing can be extracted from the signal and separated from background noise and other irrelevant components to bearing faults. Then, Bayesian information criterion (BIC) and correlation kurtosis (CK) are employed to select the sensitive intrinsic mode function (IMF) components and obtain fault information effectively. Finally, an improved CS analysis algorithm is used to fuse the selected sensitive IMF components, and the CS entropy (CSE) is extracted as degradation feature. Experimental data on the test bearings with single point faults separately at the inner race and rolling element were studied to demonstrate the capabilities of the proposed method. The results show that it can assess the bearing degradation status and has good sensitivity and good consistency to the process of bearing degradation.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liye Zhao ◽  
Wei Yu ◽  
Ruqiang Yan

This paper presents an improved gearbox fault diagnosis approach by integrating complementary ensemble empirical mode decomposition (CEEMD) with permutation entropy (PE). The presented approach identifies faults appearing in a gearbox system based on PE values calculated from selected intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) of vibration signals decomposed by CEEMD. Specifically, CEEMD is first used to decompose vibration signals characterizing various defect severities into a series of IMFs. Then, filtered vibration signals are obtained from appropriate selection of IMFs, and correlation coefficients between the filtered signal and each IMF are used as the basis for useful IMFs selection. Subsequently, PE values of those selected IMFs are utilized as input features to a support vector machine (SVM) classifier for characterizing the defect severity of a gearbox. Case study conducted on a gearbox system indicates the effectiveness of the proposed approach for identifying the gearbox faults.


Generally, two or more faults occur simultaneously in the bearings. These Compound Faults (CF) in bearing, are most difficult type of faults to detect, by any data-driven method including machine learning. Hence, it is a primary requirement to decompose the fault vibration signals logically, so that frequencies can be grouped in parts. Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) is one of the simplest techniques of decomposition of signals. In this paper we have used Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD) technique for compound fault detection/identification. Ensembled Empirical Mode Decomposition is found useful, where a white noise helps to detect the bearing frequencies. The graphs show clearly the capability of EEMD to detect the multiple faults in rolling bearings.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prashant Kumar Sahu ◽  
Rajiv Nandan Rai

Abstract The vibration signals for rotating machines are generally polluted by excessive noise and can lose the fault information at the early development phase. In this paper, an improved denoising technique is proposed for early faults diagnosis of rolling bearing based on the complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition (CEEMD) and adaptive thresholding (ATD) method. Firstly, the bearing vibration signals are decomposed into a set of various intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) using CEEMD algorithm. The IMFs grouping and selection are formed based upon the correlation coefficient value. The noise-predominant IMFs are subjected to adaptive thresholding for denoising and then added to the low-frequency IMFs for signal reconstruction. The effectiveness of the proposed method denoised signals are measured based on kurtosis value and the envelope spectrum analysis. The presented method results on experimental datasets illustrate that the proposed approach is an effective denoising technique for early fault detection in the rolling bearing.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (16) ◽  
pp. 5542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Li ◽  
Chao Ran ◽  
Bin Zhang ◽  
Leng Han ◽  
Song Feng

Rolling bearings are fundamental elements that play a crucial role in the functioning of rotating machines; thus, fault diagnosis of rolling bearings is of great significance to reduce catastrophic failures and heavy economic loss. However, the vibration signals of rolling bearings are often nonlinear and nonstationary, resulting in difficulty for feature extraction and fault recognition. In this paper, a hybrid method for multiple fault diagnosis of rolling bearings is presented. The bearing vibration signals are decomposed with the improved complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition with adaptive noise (ICEEMDAN) to denoise and extract nonlinear entropy features. The nonlinear entropy features are further processed to select the more discriminative fault features and to reduce feature dimension. Then a multi-class intelligent recognition model based on ensemble support vector machine (ESVM) is constructed to diagnose different bearing fault modes as well as fault severities. The effectiveness of the proposed method is assessed via experimental case studies of rolling bearings under multiple operational conditions (i.e., speeds and loads). The results show that our method gives better diagnosis results as compared to some existing approaches.


2021 ◽  
pp. 107754632110381
Author(s):  
Qingjie Zhang ◽  
Guangxiang Lu ◽  
Chengyu Zhang ◽  
You Xu

The torsional vibration signals of rotating shafts are multimodal non-stationary noisy signals. The harmonics and attenuation characteristics of these non-stationary signals cannot be obtained effectively by the ordinary short-time Fourier transform algorithm. Although Prony analysis can accurately fit and identify the characteristic coefficients of such non-stationary signals, it is still sensitive to noise. In this article, we propose a system for denoising and identification of torsional vibration signals. In particular, the improved complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition with adaptive noise (ICEEMDAN), wavelet transform, and robust independent component analysis methods are used to denoise the torsional vibration signals, and then, Prony analysis is used to obtain the characteristic parameters of these signals. The proposed algorithm has good denoising performance and it can improve the identification accuracy and reduce the order of the Prony analysis.


2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhipeng Feng ◽  
Ming J. Zuo ◽  
Rujiang Hao ◽  
Fulei Chu ◽  
Jay Lee

Periodic impulses in vibration signals and its repeating frequency are the key indicators for diagnosing the local damage of rolling element bearings. A new method based on ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) and the Teager energy operator is proposed to extract the characteristic frequency of bearing fault. The signal is firstly decomposed into monocomponents by means of EEMD to satisfy the monocomponent requirement by the Teager energy operator. Then, the intrinsic mode function (IMF) of interest is selected according to its correlation with the original signal and its kurtosis. Next, the Teager energy operator is applied to the selected IMF to detect fault-induced impulses. Finally, Fourier transform is applied to the obtained Teager energy series to identify the repeating frequency of fault-induced periodic impulses and thereby to diagnose bearing faults. The principle of the method is illustrated by the analyses of simulated bearing vibration signals. Its effectiveness in extracting the characteristic frequency of bearing faults, and especially its performance in identifying the symptoms of weak and compound faults, are validated by the experimental signal analyses of both seeded fault experiments and a run-to-failure test. Comparison studies show its better performance than, or complements to, the traditional spectral analysis and the squared envelope spectral analysis methods.


Author(s):  
Yaguo Lei ◽  
Ming J. Zuo ◽  
Mohammad Hoseini

Ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) was developed to alleviate the mode-mixing problem in empirical mode decomposition (EMD). With EEMD, the components with physical meaning can be extracted from the signal. The bispectrum, a third-order statistic, helps identify phase-coupling effects, which are useful for detecting faults in rotating machinery. Combining the advantages of EEMD and bispectrum, this paper proposes a new method for detecting such faults. First, the original vibration signals collected from rotating machinery are decomposed by EEMD and a set of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) is produced. Then, the IMFs are reconstructed into new signals using the weighted reconstruction algorithm developed in this paper. Finally, the reconstructed signals are analyzed via the bispectrum to detect faults. Both simulation examples and gearbox experiments demonstrate that the proposed method can detect gear faults more clearly than can directly performing bispectrum analysis on the original vibration signals.


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