A Combination of WKNN to Fault Diagnosis of Rolling Element Bearings

2009 ◽  
Vol 131 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaguo Lei ◽  
Zhengjia He ◽  
Yanyang Zi

This paper presents a new method for fault diagnosis of rolling element bearings, which is developed based on a combination of weighted K nearest neighbor (WKNN) classifiers. This method uses wavelet packet transform based on the lifting scheme to preprocess the vibration signals before feature extraction. Time- and frequency-domain features are all extracted to represent the operation conditions of the bearings totally. Sensitive features are selected after feature extraction. And then, multiple classifiers based on WKNN are combined to overcome the two disadvantages of KNN and therefore it may enhance the classification accuracy. The experimental results of the proposed method to fault diagnosis of the rolling element bearings show that this method enables the detection of abnormalities in bearings and at the same time identification of fault categories and levels.

Author(s):  
Xiumei Li ◽  
Yong Liu ◽  
Huiming Zhao ◽  
Wu Deng

AbstractEarly identification of faults in rolling element bearings is a challenging task; especially extracting transient characteristics from a noisy signal and identifying bearings fault become critical steps. In this paper, a novel method for real time fault detection in rolling element bearings is proposed to deal with non-stationary fault signals from frequency and energy perspective. Second-order blind identification (SOBI) and wavelet packet decomposition are organically integrated to diagnose the early bearing faults, the fault vibration signals are processed by SOBI algorithm, and feature information is extracted; meanwhile, fault vibration signals are decomposed by the wavelet packet, the energy of terminal nodes(at the bottom layer of wavelet packet decomposition) are analyzed because the energy of terminal nodes has different sensitive to different component faults. Therefore, the bearing faults can be diagnosed by organic combination of fault characteristic frequency analysis and energy of the terminal nodes, and the effectiveness, feasibility and robustness of the proposed method have been verified by experimental data.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 1876 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zheng Li ◽  
Anbo Ming ◽  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Tao Liu ◽  
Fulei Chu ◽  
...  

In order to extract and enhance the weak fault feature of rolling element bearings in strong noise conditions, the Empirical Wavelet Transform (EWT) is improved and a novel fault feature extraction and enhancement method is proposed by combining the Maximum Correlated Kurtosis Deconvolution (MCKD) and improved EWT method. At first, the MCKD method is conducted to de-noise the signal by eliminating the non-impact components. Then, the Fourier spectrum is segmented by local maxima or minima in the envelope of the amplitude spectrum with a pre-set threshold based on the noise level. By building up the wavelet filter banks based on the spectrum segmentation result, the signal is adaptively decomposed into several sub-signals. Finally, by choosing the most meaningful sub-signal with the maximum kurtosis, the fault feature can be extracted in the squared envelope spectrum and teager energy operator spectrum of the chosen component. Both simulations and experiments are performed to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method. It is shown that the spectrum segmentation result of improved EWT is more reasonable than the traditional EWT in strong noise conditions. Furthermore, compared with commonly used methods, such as the Fast Kurtogram (FK) and the Optimal Wavelet Packet Transform (OWPT) method, the proposed method is more effective in the fault feature extraction and enhancement of rolling element bearings.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weigang Wen ◽  
Zhaoyan Fan ◽  
Donald Karg ◽  
Weidong Cheng

Nonlinear characteristics are ubiquitous in the vibration signals produced by rolling element bearings. Fractal dimensions are effective tools to illustrate nonlinearity. This paper proposes a new approach based on Multiscale General Fractal Dimensions (MGFDs) to realize fault diagnosis of rolling element bearings, which are robust to the effects of variation in operating conditions. The vibration signals of bearing are analyzed to extract the general fractal dimensions in multiscales, which are in turn utilized to construct a feature space to identify fault pattern. Finally, bearing faults are revealed by pattern recognition. Case studies are carried out to evaluate the validity and accuracy of the approach. It is verified that this approach is effective for fault diagnosis of rolling element bearings under various operating conditions via experiment and data analysis.


2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Moosavian ◽  
H. Ahmadi ◽  
A. Tabatabaeefar ◽  
M. Khazaee

Vibration analysis is an accepted method in condition monitoring of machines, since it can provide useful and reliable information about machine working condition. This paper surveys a new scheme for fault diagnosis of main journal-bearings of internal combustion (IC) engine based on power spectral density (PSD) technique and two classifiers, namely, K-nearest neighbor (KNN) and artificial neural network (ANN). Vibration signals for three different conditions of journal-bearing; normal, with oil starvation condition and extreme wear fault were acquired from an IC engine. PSD was applied to process the vibration signals. Thirty features were extracted from the PSD values of signals as a feature source for fault diagnosis. KNN and ANN were trained by training data set and then used as diagnostic classifiers. Variable K value and hidden neuron count (N) were used in the range of 1 to 20, with a step size of 1 for KNN and ANN to gain the best classification results. The roles of PSD, KNN and ANN techniques were studied. From the results, it is shown that the performance of ANN is better than KNN. The experimental results dèmonstrate that the proposed diagnostic method can reliably separate different fault conditions in main journal-bearings of IC engine.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Peng Chen ◽  
Xiaoqiang Zhao ◽  
HongMei Jiang

In the process of fault feature extraction of rolling bearing, the feature information is difficult to be extracted fully. A novel method of fault feature extraction called hierarchical dispersion entropy is proposed in this paper. In this method, the vibration signals firstly are decomposed hierarchically. Secondly, dispersion entropies of different nodes are calculated. Hierarchical dispersion entropy can realize the comprehensive feature extraction of the high- and low-frequency band information of vibration signals and overcome the problems that dispersion entropy and multiscale dispersion entropy are insufficient to extract the fault feature information of vibration signals. The feasibility of hierarchical dispersion entropy is obtained by analyzing the hierarchical dispersion entropy of Gaussian white noise and compared with the multiscale dispersion entropy of Gaussian white noise. Meanwhile, a fault diagnosis method for rolling bearings based on hierarchical dispersion entropy and k-nearest neighbor (KNN) classifier is developed. Finally, the superiority of the proposed fault diagnosis method is verified in the realization of fault diagnosis of the rolling bearing in different positions and different degrees of damage.


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