Performance degradation assessment of slewing bearings based on deep auto-encoder and optimized particle filtering

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (17) ◽  
pp. 2380-2394
Author(s):  
Yubin Pan ◽  
Rongjing Hong ◽  
Jie Chen ◽  
Weiwei Wu
Keyword(s):  
Particle Filtering ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Large Data ◽  
Vibration Signal ◽  
Degradation Process ◽  
Performance Degradation ◽  
Remaining Useful Life ◽  
Heavy Load ◽  
Reconstructed Signal ◽  
Slewing Bearings

Due to the low speed and heavy load conditions of slewing bearings, extracting of effective features for fault diagnosis and prediction is difficult but crucial. Moreover, challenges such as large data volumes, unlabeled and multi-source bring more difficulties for advanced prognosis and health management methods. To solve these problems, a novel method for performance degradation assessment of bearings based on raw signals is proposed. In this methodology, a combination of deep auto-encoder (DAE) algorithm and particle filter algorithm is utilized for feature extraction and remaining useful life (RUL) prediction. First, the raw vibration signal is employed to train parameters of a restricted Boltzmann machine to build the DAE model. Through encoding and decoding multi-source data, root mean square error of reconstruction error between the raw signal and reconstructed signal is employed to detect incipient faults of slewing bearings. Then, degradation trend model is established by particle filtering to predict RUL of bearings. The effectiveness of proposed method is validated using simulated and experimental vibration signals. Results illustrate that proposed method can evaluate the performance degradation process and RUL of slewing bearings.

A Clustering-Based Framework for Performance Degradation Prediction of Slewing Bearing Using Multiple Physical Signals

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Ding ◽  
Hua Wang ◽  
Yongfen Dai
Keyword(s):  
Degradation Process ◽  
Remaining Useful Life ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Self Organizing Map ◽  
Rolling Bearings ◽  
Heavy Load ◽  
Joint Application ◽  
Learning Modes ◽  
Useful Life ◽  
Slewing Bearings

Diagnosing the failure or predicting the performance state of low-speed and heavy-load slewing bearings is a practical and effective method to reduce unexpected stoppage or optimize the maintenances. Many literatures focus on the performance prediction of small rolling bearings, while studies on slewing bearings' health evaluation are very rare. Among these rare studies, supervised or unsupervised data-driven models are often used alone, few researchers devote to remaining useful life (RUL) prediction using the joint application of two learning modes which could fully take diversity and complexity of slewing bearings' degradation and damage into consideration. Therefore, this paper proposes a clustering-based framework with aids of supervised models and multiple physical signals. Correlation analysis and principle component analysis (PCA)-based multiple sensitive features in time-domain are used to establish the performance recession indicators (PRIs) of torque, temperature, and vibration. Subsequently, these three indicators are divided into several parts representing different degradation periods via optimized self-organizing map (OSOM). Finally, corresponding data-driven life models of these degradation periods are generated. Experimental results indicate that multiple physical signals can effectively describe the degradation process. The proposed clustering-based framework is provided with a more accurate prediction of slewing bearings' RUL and well reflects the performance recession periods.

Rolling bearing degradation condition clustering using multidimensional degradation feature and Gath–Geva fuzzy clustering algorithm

2020 ◽  
pp. 107754632095495
Author(s):  
Bing Wang ◽  
Xiong Hu ◽  
Tao X Mei ◽  
Sun D Jian ◽  
Wang Wei
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Clustering ◽  
Clustering Algorithm ◽  
Chaotic Map ◽  
Vibration Signal ◽  
Degradation Process ◽  
Rolling Bearing ◽  
Performance Degradation ◽  
Time Parameter ◽  
Mechanical Equipment ◽  
Time Dimension

In allusion to the issue of rolling bearing degradation feature extraction and degradation condition clustering, a logistic chaotic map is introduced to analyze the advantages of C0 complexity and a technique based on a multidimensional degradation feature and Gath–Geva fuzzy clustering algorithmic is proposed. The multidimensional degradation feature includes C0 complexity, root mean square, and curved time parameter which is more in line with the performance degradation process. Gath–Geva fuzzy clustering is introduced to divide different conditions during the degradation process. A rolling bearing lifetime vibration signal from intelligent maintenance system bearing test center was introduced for instance analysis. The results show that C0 complexity is able to describe the degradation process and has advantages in sensitivity and calculation speed. The introduced degradation indicator curved time parameter can reflect the agglomeration character of the degradation condition at time dimension, which is more in line with the performance degradation pattern of mechanical equipment. The Gath–Geva fuzzy clustering algorithmic is able to cluster degradation condition of mechanical equipment such as bearings accurately.

Performance degradation analysis of solid lubricated bearings based on Laplace wavelet filter and self-organizing map

2013 ◽  
Vol 228 (10) ◽  
pp. 1743-1753 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Zhang ◽  
Shaoping Wang
Keyword(s):  
Feature Vector ◽  
Vibration Signal ◽  
Degradation Process ◽  
Performance Degradation ◽  
Friction Torque ◽  
Self Organizing Map ◽  
Wavelet Filter ◽  
Degradation Analysis ◽  
Space Mechanisms ◽  
Self Organizing

Solid lubricated bearings are commonly used in space mechanisms and other appliances, and their reliability analysis has drawn more and more attention. This paper focuses on the performance degradation analysis of solid lubricated bearings. Based on the vibration and friction torque signal of solid lubricated bearings, Laplace wavelet filter is adopted to process vibration signal and feature vector is constructed by calculating time-domain parameters of filtered vibration signal and original friction torque signal. Self-organizing map is then adopted to analyze the performance degradation based on extracted feature vectors. Experimental results show that this method can describe performance degradation process effectively.

A degradation phase division technique based on Gath–Geva fuzzy clustering

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (15-16) ◽  
pp. 1147-1154
Author(s):  
Bing Wang ◽  
Wang Wei ◽  
Xiong Hu ◽  
Dejian Sun
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Clustering ◽  
Chaotic Map ◽  
Vibration Signal ◽  
Degradation Process ◽  
Rolling Bearing ◽  
Performance Degradation ◽  
Mechanical Equipment ◽  
Spectral Entropy ◽  
Variation Pattern ◽  
Intelligent Maintenance

In allusion to the issue of degradation feature extraction and degradation phase division, a logistic chaotic map is used to study the variation pattern of spectral entropy, and a technique based on Gath–Geva fuzzy clustering is proposed. The degradation features include spectral entropy, root mean square, and “curved time,” which are more in line with the performance degradation process than degradation time. Gath–Geva fuzzy clustering is introduced to divide different phases in the degradation process. The rolling bearing lifetime vibration signal from the intelligent maintenance systems (IMS) bearing test center was introduced for instance analysis. The results show that spectral entropy is able to effectively describe the complexity variation pattern in the performance degradation process and has some advantages in sensitivity and calculation speed. The introduced “curved time” is able to reflect the agglomeration character of the degradation condition on a time scale, which is more in line with the performance degradation pattern of mechanical equipment. Gath–Geva fuzzy clustering is able to divide the degradation phase of mechanical equipment such as bearings accurately.

scholarly journals Laplace Prior-Based Bayesian Compressive Sensing Using K-SVD for Vibration Signal Transmission and Fault Detection

Electronics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunfei Ma ◽  
Xisheng Jia ◽  
Qiwei Hu ◽  
Daoming Xu ◽  
Chiming Guo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fault Detection ◽  
Compressive Sensing ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Signal Transmission ◽  
Vibration Signal ◽  
Experimental Tests ◽  
Reconstructed Signal ◽  
Signal Simulation ◽  
Value Decomposition ◽  
Laplace Priors

Vibration signal transmission plays a fundamental role in equipment prognostics and health management. However, long-term condition monitoring requires signal compression before transmission because of the high sampling frequency. In this paper, an efficient Bayesian compressive sensing algorithm is proposed. The contribution is explicitly decomposed into two components: a multitask scenario and a Laplace prior-based hierarchical model. This combination makes full use of the sparse promotion under Laplace priors and the correlation between sparse blocks to improve the efficiency. Moreover, a K-singular value decomposition (K-SVD) dictionary learning method is used to find the best sparse representation of the signal. Simulation results show that the Laplace prior-based reconstruction performs better than typical algorithms. The comparison between a fixed dictionary and learning dictionary also illustrates the advantage of the K-SVD method. Finally, a fault detection case of a reconstructed signal is analyzed. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated by simulation and experimental tests.

Identifying Parameters for Nonlinear Degradation-Based Prognostics

2019 ◽  
pp. 237-260
Author(s):  
Feng Yang ◽  
Mohamed Salahuddin
Keyword(s):  
Parameter Identification ◽  
Induction Motors ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Degradation Process ◽  
Remaining Useful Life ◽  
Prognostics And Health Management ◽  
Health Index ◽  
Identification Method ◽  
Useful Life ◽  
Parameter Values

Prognostics and health management (PHM) methodologies are increasingly playing active roles in improving the availability, reliability, efficiency, productivity, and safety of systems in many industries. In predicting the remaining useful life (RUL), this chapter introduces a prognostics framework with health index (HI) formulation, with specific emphasis on incorporating and validating nonlinear HI degradations. The key issue to the success of this framework is how to identify appropriate parameters in describing the behavior of the nonlinear HI degradations. Using exponential HI degradation as an example in predicting the RULs of induction motors, this chapter discusses three different explorations in verifying the existence of good parameter values as well as identifying the appropriate parameters automatically. Comprehensive experiments were carried out with degradation process (DP) data from eight induction motors, and it was discovered that good parameters can be automatically determined with the proposed parameter identification method.

Failure Prognosis of Complex Equipment With Multistream Deep Recurrent Neural Network

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yonghe Su ◽  
Fei Tao ◽  
Jian Jin ◽  
Tian Wang ◽  
Qingguo Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Recurrent Neural Network ◽  
Deep Neural Network ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Large Data ◽  
Vibration Signal ◽  
Linear Layer ◽  
Deep Recurrent Neural Network ◽  
Complex Equipment ◽  
Failure Prognosis

Abstract The failure prognosis is crucial for industrial equipment in prognostics and health management field. The vibration signal is the commonly used data for failure prognosis. The conventional prognostic approaches have limitations to handle the features extracted from the vibration signal because of the large data quantity, complex feature relations, and limited degeneration mechanisms. In this paper, a deep learning-based approach is proposed to predict the failure of the complex equipment. To supply plenty of features, three different domain features are extracted from vibration signals. Next, these features are preprocessed and reconstructed by arctangent normalization and data stream, respectively. Finally, a deep neural network, namely, multistream deep recurrent neural network (MS-DRNN) is built to fuse these features for failure target. The presented deep neural network is hybrid, involving recurrent layer, fusion layer, fully connected layer, and linear layer. To benchmark the proposed approach, several prognosis approaches are evaluated with the testing data from six large bearing datasets. Simulation results demonstrate that the prediction performance of the MS-DRNN-based approach is effective and reliable.

scholarly journals RUL prediction for automatic machines: a mixed edge-cloud solution based on model-of-signals and particle filtering techniques

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matteo Barbieri ◽  
Khan T. P. Nguyen ◽  
Roberto Diversi ◽  
Kamal Medjaher ◽  
Andrea Tilli
Keyword(s):  
Particle Filtering ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Remaining Useful Life ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Smart Manufacturing ◽  
Actual Application ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Management Procedures ◽  
Maintenance Policies

Abstract This work aims to provide useful insights into the course of action and the challenges faced by machine manufacturers when dealing with the actual application of Prognostics and Health Management procedures in industrial environments. Taking into account the computing capabilities and connectivity of the hardware available for smart manufacturing, we propose a particular solution that allows meeting one of the essential requirements of intelligent production processes, i.e., autonomous health management. Indeed, efficient and fast algorithms, that does not require a high computational cost and can be appropriately performed on machine controllers, i.e., on edge, are combined with others, which can handle large amounts of data and calculations, executed on remote powerful supervisory platforms, i.e., on the cloud. In detail, new condition monitoring algorithms based on Model-of-Signals techniques are developed and implemented on local controllers to process the raw sensor readings and extract meaningful and compact features, according to System Identification rules and guidelines. These results are then transmitted to remote supervisors, where Particle Filters are exploited to model components degradation and predict their Remaining Useful Life. Practitioners can use this information to optimise production planning and maintenance policies. The proposed architecture allows keeping the communication traffic between edge and cloud in the nowadays affordable “Big data” range, preventing the unmanageable “Huge data” scenario that would follow from the transmission of raw sensor data. Furthermore, the robustness and effectiveness of the proposed method are tested considering a meaningful benchmark, the PRONOSTIA dataset, allowing reproducibility and comparison with other approaches.

scholarly journals Battery Remaining Useful Life Prediction with Inheritance Particle Filtering

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 2784 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin Li ◽  
Alfredo Alan Flores Saldivar ◽  
Yun Bai ◽  
Yun Li
Keyword(s):  
Lithium Ion Battery ◽  
Particle Filtering ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Lithium Ion ◽  
Rechargeable Batteries ◽  
Remaining Useful Life ◽  
Tuning Parameters ◽  
Degradation Data ◽  
Capacity Degradation ◽  
Useful Life

Accurately forecasting a battery’s remaining useful life (RUL) plays an important role in the prognostics and health management of rechargeable batteries. An effective forecast is reported using a particle filter (PF), but it currently suffers from particle degeneracy and impoverishment deficiencies in RUL evaluations. In this paper, an inheritance PF is developed to predict lithium-ion battery RUL for the first time. A battery degradation model is first mapped onto a PF problem using the genetic algorithm (GA) framework. Then, a Lamarckian inheritance operator is designed to improve the light-weight particles by heavy-weight ones and thus to tackle particle degeneracy. In addition, the inheritance mechanism retains certain existing information to tackle particle impoverishment. The performance of the inheritance PF is compared with an elitism GA-based PF. The former has fewer tuning parameters than the latter and is less sensitive to tuning parameters. Both PFs are applied to the prediction of lithium-ion battery RUL, which is validated using capacity degradation data from the NASA Ames Research Center. The experimental results show that the inheritance PF method offers improved RUL prediction and wider applications. Further improvement is obtained with one-step ahead prediction when the charging and discharging cycles move along.

scholarly journals Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Bearing with Vibration Signals Based on a Novel Indicator

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Wu ◽  
Wei Li ◽  
Ming-quan Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Rbf Neural Network ◽  
Degradation Process ◽  
Rate Function ◽  
Remaining Useful Life ◽  
Maintenance Cost ◽  
Failure Rate Function ◽  
Useful Life ◽  
The Time Domain

Aiming at reducing the production downtime and maintenance cost, prognostics and health management (PHM) of rotating machinery often includes the remaining useful life (RUL) prediction of bearings. In this paper, a method combining the generalized Weibull failure rate function (WFRF) and radial basis function (RBF) neural network is developed to deal with the RUL prediction of bearings. A novel indicator, namely, the power value on the sensitive frequency band (SFB), is proposed to track bearing degradation process. Generalized WFRF is used to fit the degradation indicator series to reduce the effect of noise and avoid areas of fluctuation in the time domain. RBF neural network is employed to predict the RUL of bearings with times and fitted power values at present and previous inspections as input. Meanwhile, the life percentage is selected as output. The performance of the proposed method is validated by an accelerated bearing run-to-failure experiment, and the results demonstrate the advantage of this method in achieving more accurate RUL prediction.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document