基于长短时记忆神经网络的风电机组滚动轴承故障诊断方法

风能作为一种绿色能源在我国能源结构中发挥着越来越重要的作用。风电机组的滚动轴承作为传动系统的重要组成部分,是其主要故障部件之一。随着风电规模的不断增长,及时地发现风电机组滚动轴承的故障对风电场安全稳定运行具有重要意义。针对传统回归神经网络存在的梯度消失问题,提出了利用长短时记忆神经网络对风电机组滚动轴承进行故障诊断的模型。首先,利用小波包变换对风电机组滚动轴承振动信号进行处理,提取其特征向量,将其作为长短时神经网络的输入,从而诊断出风电机组滚动轴承的三种常见故障。通过算例分析,结果表明所提出的方法能够有效地对风电机组的滚动轴承进行故障诊断,并且在故障特征量差异不明显的情况下长短时记忆神经网络仍具有良好的故障诊断性能,说明了该方法的可行性和有效性。     

滚动轴承声信号特征提取和诊断试验研究

为解决振动检测方法不能有效识别低速旋转机械滚动轴承故障问题,利用声发射检测方法,建立了滚动轴承低速声发射信号采集试验装置,对模拟人工缺陷滚动轴承声发射信号进行了采集,进而对滚动轴承声发射信号进行总体平均经验模式分解,结合能量矩及相关系数法综合判断分解后各模态分量的真伪,据此提取出特征信号并做出其局部Hilbert边际谱,最后对滚动轴承各种故障模式进行诊断。试验结果表明该诊断方法能准确识别滚动轴承声发射信号故障频率,依据特征频率及幅值大小可对低速滚动轴承故障进行有效诊断。     

基于滑动峭度相关性准则的局部特征尺度分解分量筛选方法

轴承故障振动信号具有非平稳、非线性特征,且可视为多个调幅-调频分量的叠加,单分量的包络蕴含了轴承的故障特征。局部特征尺度分解可将振动信号准确分解为多个内禀尺度分量之和,某些分量能清晰反映轴承的运行状态,根据包络谱可进行故障诊断。为了准确筛选有用分量,提出了基于滑动峭度相关性准则的分量筛选方法。首先,对信号进行局部特征尺度分解,得到若干个内禀尺度分量;然后,对分量和原始信号分别计算滑动峭度,生成时间序列;最后,依据分量滑动峭度序列与原始信号滑动峭度序列的互相关系数筛选有用分量。通过轴承内圈故障数据分析发现：有用分量与非有用分量之间的滑动峭度互相关系数比互相关系数差异明显,区分度更大,有益于分量的分类、筛选。     

基于功率谱包络能量和SVM的舰用发动机故障诊断

发动机是军舰上的重要部件之一,其稳定性对军舰的正常航行具有重要影响。以舰用发动机关键部件(主泵轴承)为具体研究对象,提出了基于功率谱包络能量和支持向量机相结合的故障诊断方法。首先获取了大量可表征舰用发动机主泵轴承健康状态的振动加速度信息,对其进行功率谱分析,获得其功率谱的包络能量;以获取的舰用发动机主泵轴承功率谱的包络能量构建特征向量,并设计基于SVM的舰用发动机主泵轴承故障诊断模型,对主泵轴承的故障进行诊断研究。研究结果表明,采用基于功率谱包络能量和SVM相结合的舰用发动机关键部件故障诊断方法,可以很好实现主泵轴承的故障诊断效能,为舰用发动机主泵轴承故障诊断的工程应用奠定了基础。     

小波包和GA-SVM在轴承故障诊断中的应用

为了解决傅里叶变换难以兼顾信号在时域和频域中的全貌和局部化特征以及支持向量机惩罚参数 和核函数参数 选取的问题,提出了基于小波包和GA-SVM的轴承故障诊断方法。首先通过实验采集多种工况下故障轴承和正常轴承的振动信号,从振动信号中提取能够表征轴承运行状态的时频域特征以及基于小波包分析的特征向量来作为GA-SVM的输入,然后在SVM的基础上,针对SVM的惩罚参数和核函数参数在不同应用场景下的取值难以确定的特性,采用了遗传算法对支持向量机进行参数优化的GA-SVM算法进行模式识别。实验结果显示,基于小波包和GA-SVM的轴承故障诊断方法比SVM和BP都具有更高的识别精度。     

单腔双光梳拍频信号包络提取方法

对单腔双光梳拍频信号的包络提取方法进行了实验研究。在单个光纤激光器中引入具有强双折射的保偏光纤,使脉冲沿偏振正交的两个方向进行复用传输和锁模。精细调节腔内偏振态,实现了重频差在337 Hz～2.33 kHz范围内连续可调的双光梳生成。通过激光器腔外偏振态调节和偏振分束,获得了消光比分别为28.5 dB和38.2 dB的两路光频梳。两路光频梳经过异步采样后,采用所设计的包络检波电路对拍频信号的包络进行提取,与采用基于样条插值和希尔伯特变换的包络提取算法计算结果相比,所提取的包络峰值位置基本保持一致,验证了该方法的可行性。双光梳拍频信号包络提取实验研究可以快速实时提取包络形状和包络峰值位置,可进一步应用于包络信号触发和精密测距等领域。     

用希尔伯特变换分析次声信号的动态谱

以往习惯上用快速傅里叶变换对次声信号进行动态谱分析,但该方法不一定都合适。在本文中提出另一种分析次声信号动态谱的方法,是经数字滤波和希尔伯特变换以后,计算每一通道内信号的包络,而滤波器是按 1/12倍频程划分的。在本文中讨论了用希尔伯特变换求信号的包络,及1/12倍频程滤波器,然而用二种方法分析一个合成的核爆炸次声信号,对它们计算的结果进行比较。用希尔伯特变换求出的动态谱,不仅有较高的分辨率,可以获得各简正波的主要频率范围,还可以初步获得几个低阶简正波的波形。本方法表明在某些情形中更能反映次声信号的特性。     

光声池中微弱光声信号检测

大气中的污染源气体含量很少, 用光声光谱对其进行监测得到的光声信号极其微弱. 本文首先分析微弱信号产生机理, 在分析Holmes Duffing方程的基础上, 提出了适合光声池微弱信号检测的变尺度差分方法. 该方法通过对信号进行尺度变换, 再做差分来检测微弱信号. 理论分析和实验表明, 变尺度差分方法能很好地抑制系统相空间的共模噪声, 而且能很好地凸显混沌状态临界值. 变尺度差分方法测出的信号相对误差都小于5%, 说明其可以用于较高频率、 相位和频率都未知的微弱光声信号幅值检测. 关键词： 光声光谱 微弱信号 幅值 Duffing     

基于DE-LSSVM的滚动轴承故障诊断

针对滚动轴承故障诊断难以获得大量样本的问题以及LS-SVM 模型参数选择方法易陷入局部最优的缺点,提出了一种集合经验模态分解能量熵和差分进化算法（DE）优化最小二乘支持向量机相结合的轴承故障诊断方法。首先原始振动信号采用EEMD分解得到一组固有模态函数（IMF）,从有效本征模态函数IMF分量中提取的能量特征作为输入建立支持向量机,通过计算不同振动信号的能量熵值大小来判断轴承的故障损伤程度。为了提高模型的诊断精度,采用差分进化算法对LS-SVM的结构参数进行优化,并与LS-SVM和PSO-LSSVM模型相比较。结果表明,DE-LSSVM 模型的故障分类准确性得到了提高,可以有效应用于滚动轴承故障诊断中。     

基于Treelet变换的模拟电路故障诊断

针对模拟电路故障诊断中特征向量冗余的问题,提出一种基于Treelet变换的模拟电路故障诊断方法.Treelet变换是一种自适应的多尺度的数据分析方法,适用于对高维数据降维和特征选择。文中首先对被测电路的输出信号采样,将采集到的信号进行Treelet变换,提取故障特征向量,最后将得到的特征向量输入BP神经网络进行故障模式识别。仿真实验结果表明,该方法能够有效地提取电路故障特征。与其他故障特征提取方法相比较,基于Treelet变换的模拟电路故障诊断方法具有较高的故障诊断率和收敛速度。     

A fault diagnosis scheme of rolling element bearing based on near-field acoustic holography and gray level co-occurrence matrix

Vibration signal analysis is the most widely used technique in condition monitoring or fault diagnosis, whereas in some cases vibration-based diagnosis is restrained because of its contact measurement. Acoustic-based diagnosis (ABD) with non-contact measurement has received little attention, although sound field may contain abundant information related to fault pattern. A new scheme of ABD for rolling element bearing fault diagnosis based on near-field acoustic holography (NAH) and gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) is presented in this paper. It focuses on applying the distribution information of sound field to bearing fault diagnosis. A series of rolling element bearings with different types of fault are experimentally studied. Sound fields and corresponding acoustic images in different bearing conditions are obtained by fast Fourier transform (FFT) based NAH. GLCM features are extracted for capturing fault pattern information underlying sound fields. The optimal feature subset selected by improved F-score is fed into multi-class support vector machine (SVM) for fault pattern identification. The feasibility and effectiveness of our proposed scheme is demonstrated on the good experimental results and the comparison with the traditional ABD method. Considering test cost, the quantized level and the number of GLCM features for each characteristic frequency is suggested to be 4 and 32, respectively, with the satisfactory accuracy rate 97.5%.     

Envelope order tracking for fault detection in rolling element bearings

An envelope order tracking analysis scheme is proposed in the paper for the fault detection of rolling element bearing (REB) under varying-speed running condition. The developed method takes the advantages of order tracking, envelope analysis and spectral kurtosis. The fast kurtogram algorithm is utilized to obtain both optimal center frequency and bandwidth of the band-pass filter based on the maximum spectral kurtosis. The envelope containing vibration features of the incipient REB fault can be extracted adaptively. The envelope is re-sampled by the even-angle sampling scheme, and thus the non-stationary signal in the time domain is represented as a quasi-stationary signal in the angular domain. As a result, the frequency-smear problem can be eliminated in order spectrum and the fault diagnosis of REB in the varying-speed running condition of the rotating machinery is achieved. Experiments are conducted to verify the validity of the proposed method.     

灰色极限学习机在滚动轴承故障预测中的应用

针对较强噪声环境下的滚动轴承故障预测问题,为提高轴承故障预测的精度,提出并研究了一种新的滚动轴承预测技术。采用将灰色模型和极限学习机（ELM）相结合的方法,针对轴承运行状态值的非线性特点,先将样本数据进行灰色处理,解决数据的随机性和波动性问题,然后代入学习速度快,泛化精度高的ELM神经网络进行训练。在训练完毕后,对未来的轴承运行状态数据进行分析,将其与轴承设备的理论诊断标准相比较以达到故障预测的目的。     

Continuous-scale mathematical morphology-based optimal scale band demodulation of impulsive feature for bearing defect diagnosis

Integer-scale structuring element is usually used in the traditional mathematical morphology (MM) for signal processing. When applied for impulsive feature demodulation of vibration signal of rolling element bearings, the integer-scale MM (ISMM) may lead to low resolution result and thus undermines its defect diagnosis capability. For this reason, this paper proposes a continuous-scale MM (CSMM) scheme by interpolation and re-sampling to improve scale resolution for more reliable fault signature extraction. Based on the frequency domain kurtosis criterion, a narrowband merging operation is employed to locate the optimal scale band that best reflects the impulsive feature from the CSMM analysis results. The demodulated components in the optimal scale band are employed to detect the existence of the bearing fault. The proposed optimal CSMM demodulation technique is evaluated using both simulated and experimental bearing vibration signals. The results show that, the CSMM is capable of generating demodulation signals with higher resolution, and the optimal scale band demodulation based on the CSMM can reliably extract impulsive features for bearing defect diagnosis.     

Application of correlation matching for automatic bearing fault diagnosis

This paper introduces an automatic feature extraction algorithm for bearing fault diagnosis using correlation filtering-based matching pursuit. This algorithm is described and investigated in theory and practice on both simulated and real bearing vibration signals. First, the vibration model for rolling bearing with fault is derived. Then, the numerical simulation signal being taken as an example, the principle of matching pursuit is mathematically explained and its drawbacks are analyzed. Afterward, to enhance the similarity of model related to the bearing faulty impulses, the model shape parameters are optimized using spectrum kurtosis and smoothing index. After that, the model with optimum shape and period parameters is taken as a template to approximate the impulses in faulty bearing signal. Finally, based on maximizing correlation principle, the optimized cycle parameter being as impuls e repetition period is matched up. The proposed method has been successfully applied in actual vibration signals of rolling element bearing with different faults.     

Envelope extraction based dimension reduction for independent component analysis in fault diagnosis of rolling element bearing

A robust feature extraction scheme for the rolling element bearing (REB) fault diagnosis is proposed by combining the envelope extraction and the independent component analysis (ICA). In the present approach, the envelope extraction is not only utilized to obtain the impulsive component corresponding to the faults from the REB, but also to reduce the dimension of vibration sources included in the sensor-picked signals. Consequently, the difficulty for applying the ICA algorithm under the conditions that the sensor number is limited and the source number is unknown can be successfully eliminated. Then, the ICA algorithm is employed to separate the envelopes according to the independence of vibration sources. Finally, the vibration features related to the REB faults can be separated from disturbances and clearly exposed by the envelope spectrum. Simulations and experimental tests are conducted to validate the proposed method.     

A novel adaptive wavelet stripping algorithm for extracting the transients caused by bearing localized faults

Rolling element bearings are widely used in rotating machinery. Its unexpected failure may result in machine breakdown. Whenever a bearing suffers a localized fault, the transients with a potential cyclic characteristic are generated by the rollers striking the localized fault. This phenomenon is an early bearing fault feature. Therefore, the extraction of the transients is beneficial to the identification of the early bearing fault. In this paper, a novel adaptive wavelet stripping algorithm (AWSA) is proposed to extract the simulated transients from an original bearing fault signal. Firstly, the parametric model of anti-symmetric real Laplace wavelet (ARLW) or impulse response wavelet (IRW) is built to approximate the real transients. Then, with the aid of wavelet correlation filtering analysis, the simulated transients with the optimal frequency, damping coefficient and delay time are adaptively peeled from the original bearing fault signal. The spatial reconstruction of the simulated transients reflects the random occurrence of the real transients. In order to boost the computing time of the AWSA, an enhanced AWSA is developed. At last, the bearing fault signals collected from an experimental machine and an industrial machine are used to validate the effectiveness of the AWSA. The results show that the AWSA can adaptively peel the simulated transients from the original bearing fault signals. A comparison with a periodic multi-transient model is conducted to show that the AWSA is better to extract the random characteristics of the real transients.     

Rolling bearing diagnosing method based on Empirical Mode Decomposition of machine vibration signal

Rolling bearing faults are one of the major reasons for breakdown of industrial machinery and bearing diagnosing is one of the most important topics in machine condition monitoring.The main problem in industrial application of bearing vibration diagnostics is the masking of informative bearing signal by machine noise. The vibration signal of the rolling bearing is often covered or concealed by other structural vibrations sources, such as gears. Although a number of vibration diagnostic techniques have been developed over the last several years, in many cases these methods are quite complicated in use or only effective at later stages of damage development. This paper presents an EMD-based rolling bearing diagnosing method that shows potential for bearing damage detection at a much earlier stage of damage development.By using EMD a raw vibration signal is decomposed into a number of Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs). Then, a new method of IMFs aggregation into three Combined Mode Functions (CMFs) is applied and finally the vibration signal is divided into three parts of signal: noise-only part, signal-only part and trend-only part. To further bearing fault-related feature extraction from resultant signals, the spectral analysis of the empirically determined local amplitude is used. To validate the proposed method, raw vibration signals generated by complex mechanical systems employed in the industry (driving units of belt conveyors), including normal and fault bearing vibration data, are used in two case studies. The results show that the proposed rolling bearing diagnosing method can identify bearing faults at early stages of their development.     

Roller bearing acoustic signature extraction by wavelet packet transform,applications in fault detection and size estimation

Continuous online monitoring of rotating machines is necessary to assess real-time health conditions so as to enable early detection of operation problems and thus reduce the possibility of downtime. Rolling element bearings are crucial parts of many machines and there has been an increasing demand to find effective and reliable health monitoring technique and advanced signal processing to detect and diagnose the size and location of incipient defects. Condition monitoring of rolling element bearings, comprises four main stages which are, statistical analysis, fault diagnostics, defect size calculation, and prognostics. In this paper the effect of defect size, operating speed, and loading conditions on statistical parameters of acoustic emission (AE) signals, using design of experiment method (DOE), have been investigated to select the most sensitive parameters for diagnosing incipient faults and defect growth on rolling element bearings. A modified and effective signal processing algorithm is designed to diagnose localized defects on rolling element bearings components under different operating speeds, loadings, and defect sizes. The algorithm is based on optimizing the ratio of Kurtosis and Shannon entropy to obtain the optimal band pass filter utilizing wavelet packet transform (WPT) and envelope detection. Results show the superiority of the developed algorithm and its effectiveness in extracting bearing characteristic frequencies from the raw acoustic emission signals masked by background noise under different operating conditions. To experimentally measure the defect size on rolling element bearings using acoustic emission technique, the proposed method along with spectrum of squared Hilbert transform are performed under different rotating speeds, loading conditions, and defect sizes to measure the time difference between the double AE impulses. Measurement results show the power of the proposed method for experimentally measuring size of different fault shapes using acoustic emission signals.     

A New Method Based on Time-Varying Filtering Intrinsic Time-Scale Decomposition and General Refined Composite Multiscale Sample Entropy for Rolling-Bearing Feature Extraction

The early fault diagnosis of rolling bearings has always been a difficult problem due to the interference of strong noise. This paper proposes a new method of early fault diagnosis for rolling bearings with entropy participation. First, a new signal decomposition method is proposed in this paper: intrinsic time-scale decomposition based on time-varying filtering. It is introduced into the framework of complete ensemble intrinsic time-scale decomposition with adaptive noise (CEITDAN). Compared with traditional intrinsic time-scale decomposition, intrinsic time-scale decomposition based on time-varying filtering can improve frequency-separation performance. It has strong robustness in the presence of noise interference. However, decomposition parameters (the bandwidth threshold and B-spline order) have significant impacts on the decomposition results of this method, and they need to be artificially set. Aiming to address this problem, this paper proposes rolling-bearing fault diagnosis optimization based on an improved coyote optimization algorithm (COA). First, the minimal generalized refined composite multiscale sample entropy parameter was used as the objective function. Through the improved COA algorithm, optimal intrinsic time-scale decomposition parameters based on time-varying filtering that match the input signal are obtained. By analyzing generalized refined composite multiscale sample entropy (GRCMSE), whether the mode component is dominated by the fault signal is determined. The signal is reconstructed and decomposed again. Finally, the mode component with the highest energy in the central frequency band is selected for envelope spectrum variation for fault diagnosis. Lastly, simulated and experimental signals were used to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.