scholarly journals Multi-Scale Demodulation for Fault Diagnosis Based on a Weighted-EMD De-Noising Technique and Time–Frequency Envelope Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (21) ◽  
pp. 7796 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-tao Du ◽  
Qiang Zeng ◽  
Yi-min Shao ◽  
Li-ming Wang ◽  
Xiao-xi Ding

Demodulation is one of the most useful techniques for the fault diagnosis of rotating machinery. The commonly used demodulation methods try to select one sensitive sub-band signal that contains the most fault-related components for further analysis. However, a large number of the fault-related components that exist in other sub-bands are ignored in the commonly used envelope demodulation methods. Based on a weighted-empirical mode decomposition (EMD) de-noising technique and time–frequency (TF) impulse envelope analysis, a multi-scale demodulation method is proposed for fault diagnosis. In the proposed method, EMD is first employed to divide the signal into some IMFs (intrinsic mode functions). Then, a new weighted-EMD de-noising technique is presented, and different weights are assigned to IMFs for construction according to their fault-related degrees; thus, the fault-unrelated components are suppressed to improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). After that, continuous wavelet transformation (CWT) is adopted to obtain the time–frequency representation (TFR) of the de-noised signal. Subsequently, the fault-related components in the entire frequency range scale are calculated together, referring to the TF impulse envelope signal. Finally, a fault diagnosis result can be obtained after the fast Fourier transformation of the TF impulse envelope signal. The proposed method and three commonly used methods are applied to the fault diagnosis of a planetary gearbox with a sun gear spalling fault and a fixed shaft gearbox with a crack fault. The results show that the proposed method can effectively detect gear faults and yields better performance than other methods.

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (14) ◽  
pp. 4137
Author(s):  
Lina Wang ◽  
Hongcheng Qiu ◽  
Pu Yang ◽  
Longhua Mu

Arc fault diagnosis is necessary for the safety and efficiency of PV stations. This study proposed an arc fault diagnosis algorithm formed by combining variational mode decomposition (VMD), improved multi-scale fuzzy entropy (IMFE), and support vector machine (SVM).. This method first uses VMD to decompose the current into intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) in the time-frequency domain, then calculates the IMFE according to the IMFs associated with the arc fault. Finally, it uses SVM to detect arc faults according to IMFEs. Arc fault data gathered from a PV arc generation experiment platform are used to validate the proposed method. The results indicated the proposed method can classify arc fault data and normal data effectively.


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.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (18) ◽  
pp. 6376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yihan Wang ◽  
Zhonghui Fan ◽  
Hongmei Liu ◽  
Xin Gao

Planetary gearboxes are more and more widely used in large and complex construction machinery such as those used in aviation, aerospace fields, and so on. However, the movement of the gear is a typical complex motion and is often under variable conditions in real environments, which may make vibration signals of planetary gearboxes nonlinear and nonstationary. It is more difficult and complex to achieve fault diagnosis than to fix the axis gearboxes effectively. A fault diagnosis method for planetary gearboxes based on improved complementary ensemble empirical mode decomposition (ICEEMD)-time-frequency information entropy and variable predictive model-based class discriminate (VPMCD) is proposed in this paper. First, the vibration signal of planetary gearboxes is decomposed into several intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) by using the ICEEMD algorithm, which is used to determine the noise component by using the magnitude of the entropy and to remove the noise components. Then, the time-frequency information entropy of intrinsic modal function under the new decomposition is calculated and regarded as the characteristic matrix. Finally, the fault mode is classified by the VPMCD method. The experimental results demonstrate that the method proposed in this paper can not only solve the fault diagnosis of planetary gearboxes under different operation conditions, but can also be used for fault diagnosis under variable operation conditions. Simultaneously, the proposed method is superior to the wavelet entropy method and variational mode decomposition (VMD)-time-frequency information entropy.


2013 ◽  
Vol 333-335 ◽  
pp. 550-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chang Qing Shen ◽  
Fei Hu ◽  
Zhong Kui Zhu ◽  
Fan Rang Kong

The research in bearing fault diagnosis has been attracting great attention in the past decades. Development of feasible fault diagnosis procedures to prevent failures that could cause huge economic loss timely is necessary. The whole life of the bearing is also a developing process for some sensitive features related to the fault trend. In this paper, a new scheme based on ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) and support vector regression (SVR) to conduct bearing fault degree recognition is proposed. This analysis first extracts the sensitive features from the intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) produced by EEMD which is a potential time-frequency analysis method, and then constructs an intelligent nonlinear model with input feature vectors extracted from the IMFs and defect size as output. Through validation of experimental data, the results indicated that the bearing fault degree could be effectively and precisely recognized.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (15) ◽  
pp. 5078
Author(s):  
Wenxiao Guo ◽  
Ruiqin Li ◽  
Yanfei Kou ◽  
Jianwei Zhang

The feature extraction of composite fault of gearbox in mining machinery has always been a difficulty in the field of fault diagnosis. Especially in strong background noise, the frequency of each fault feature is different, so an adaptive time-frequency analysis method is urgently needed to extract different types of faults. Considering that the signal after complementary ensemble empirical mode decomposition (CEEMD) contains a lot of pseudo components, which further leads to misdiagnosis. The article proposes a new method for actively removing noise components. Firstly, the best scale factor of multi-scale sample entropy (MSE) is determined by signals with different signal to noise ratios (SNRs); secondly, the minimum value of a large number of random noise MSE is extracted and used as the threshold of CEEMD; then, the effective Intrinsic mode functions(IMFs) component is reconstructed, and the reconstructed signal is CEEMD decomposed again; finally, after multiple iterations, the MSE values of the component signal that are less than the threshold are obtained, and the iteration is terminated. The proposed method is applied to the composite fault simulation signal and mining machinery vibration signal, and the composite fault feature is accurately extracted.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinghua Huang ◽  
Yuanyuan Li ◽  
Yi Chai

Due to the powerful capability of feature extraction, convolutional neural network (CNN) is increasingly applied to the fault diagnosis of key components of rotating machineries. Due to the shortcomings of traditional CNN-based fault diagnosis methods, the continuous convolution and pooling operations result in the constant decrease of feature resolution, which may cause the loss of some subtle fault information in the samples. This paper proposes a CNN-based model with improved structure multi-scale dense fusion network (MSDFN) to realize the fault diagnosis of wind turbines planetary gearboxes under complicated working conditions. First, the continuous wavelet transform is applied to preprocess the vibration signals, and the two-dimensional wavelet time-frequency diagrams are used as the network input. Then, the multi-scale feature fusion (MSFF) module and a feature of maximum (FoM) module are used in the extraction and classification stages of fault features, respectively. Next, the multi-scale features of each network layer are fused to enhance the fault features. Finally, the high fault diagnosis accuracy is achieved by extracting the separable fusion result of fault features. The proposed method achieves more than 99% fault diagnosis average accuracy on a planetary gearbox dataset. The comparative experimental results verify the effectiveness of the proposed method and its superiority to some mainstream approaches. The ablation study further confirms that MSFF module and FoM module play the positive role in fault diagnosis.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lingli Cui ◽  
Yuchuan Peng ◽  
Tongtong LIU

Abstract The adaptive chirp mode decomposition (ACMD) has good time-frequency representation results in analyzing chirp signals, while there is a time-frequency ambiguity problem in the analysis of variable speed planetary gearbox vibration signals. To address this problem, a planetary gearbox fault diagnosis method based on improved polynomial adaptive chirp mode decomposition wavelet is proposed (IPACMD). Using Adaptive chirp mode decomposition, the amplitude and instantaneous frequency of multiple signal components are estimated; To avoid over-decomposition to generate spurious signal components, the similarity conditional entropy is used to optimize the adaptive chirp mode decomposition threshold ;The polynomial chirp transform (PCT) using a polynomial function instead of the linear chirp kernel in the chirp transform to improve the time-frequency aggregation of the instantaneous frequency curve of each signal component and output high-resolution time-frequency representation results. Compared with the original method, the proposed method has better time-frequency aggregation and is more effective for the analysis of variable speed planetary gearbox vibration signals. The simulation and experimental study results show that the method can effectively identify the frequency components and time-frequency characteristics of the variable-speed planetary gearbox vibration signal and realize the fault diagnosis of the planetary gearbox.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fan Jiang ◽  
Zhencai Zhu ◽  
Wei Li ◽  
Bo Wu ◽  
Zhe Tong ◽  
...  

Feature extraction is one of the most difficult aspects of mechanical fault diagnosis, and it is directly related to the accuracy of bearing fault diagnosis. In this study, improved permutation entropy (IPE) is defined as the feature for bearing fault diagnosis. In this method, ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD), a self-adaptive time-frequency analysis method, is used to process the vibration signals, and a set of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) can thus be obtained. A feature extraction strategy based on statistical analysis is then presented for IPE, where the so-called optimal number of permutation entropy (PE) values used for an IPE is adaptively selected. The obtained IPE-based samples are then input to a support vector machine (SVM) model. Subsequently, a trained SVM can be constructed as the classifier for bearing fault diagnosis. Finally, experimental vibration signals are applied to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method, and the results show that the proposed method can effectively and accurately diagnose bearing faults, such as inner race faults, outer race faults, and ball faults.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Xiong ◽  
Shulin Tian ◽  
Chenglin Yang

This paper presents a novel fault diagnosis method for analog circuits using ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD), relative entropy, and extreme learning machine (ELM). First, nominal and faulty response waveforms of a circuit are measured, respectively, and then are decomposed into intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) with the EEMD method. Second, through comparing the nominal IMFs with the faulty IMFs, kurtosis and relative entropy are calculated for each IMF. Next, a feature vector is obtained for each faulty circuit. Finally, an ELM classifier is trained with these feature vectors for fault diagnosis. Via validating with two benchmark circuits, results show that the proposed method is applicable for analog fault diagnosis with acceptable levels of accuracy and time cost.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoltán Germán-Salló

Abstract This study explores the data-driven properties of the empirical mode decomposition (EMD) for signal denoising. EMD is an acknowledged procedure which has been widely used for non-stationary and nonlinear signal processing. The main idea of the EMD method is to decompose the analyzed signal into components without using expansion functions. This is a signal dependent representation and provides intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) as components. These are analyzed, through their Hurst exponent and if they are found being noisy components they will be partially or integrally eliminated. This study presents an EMD decomposition-based filtering procedure applied to test signals, the results are evaluated through signal to noise ratio (SNR) and mean square error (MSE). The obtained results are compared with discrete wavelet transform based filtering results.


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