Identification of multiple transient faults based on the adaptive spectral kurtosis method

This paper proposes a multi-fault detection method based on the adaptive spectral kurtosis (ASK) analysis of the vibration signal from single sensor. A theoretical model of multiple bearing faults is established in this paper. Compared with the kurtogram and protrugram techniques, the proposed method can more effectively extract signatures of multiple bearing faults even in the presence of strong background noise. The performance of the proposed method in fault detection of the rolling element bearings is validated using simulation data and experimental signals from a bearing with multiple faults and two faulty bearings.     

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。     

基于不确定油液光谱数据的综合传动装置剩余寿命预测

原子发射光谱分析得到的磨损微粒元素浓度是综合传动装置性能劣化评估和剩余寿命预测的重要监测指标。由于系统随机劣化过程和光谱测量误差的影响,油液光谱数据中不可避免包含系统劣化随机性和光谱测量不确定性。然而,现有基于油液光谱数据的剩余寿命预测研究中,没有考虑劣化过程的随机性和测量的不确定性对剩余寿命预测的影响。因此,针对综合传动装置劣化随机性和油液光谱数据测量不确定性对寿命预测的影响,提出一种考虑系统随机劣化和数据不确定测量的综合传动装置劣化过程建模方法。基于随机过程首中时间的概念,定义了综合传动装置的剩余寿命;基于Wiener随机过程,建立了考虑系统随机劣化和不确定测量数据的综合传动装置劣化模型,利用极大似然估计方法,估计了劣化过程模型的参数;利用卡尔曼滤波技术,实现了综合传动装置劣化状态的实时估计与更新,进一步得到了考虑系统劣化随机性和光谱数据测量不确定性的剩余寿命分布。研究结果表明,提出的劣化建模方法能够准确估计装置的运行状态,避免了采用条件维护时间对装置进行维护与保养的局限性;综合传动装置的维护时间预测值比条件维护时间延长了193 Mh（113.5%）;考虑光谱数据测量不确定性的剩余寿命预测方法优于不考虑测量不确定性的方法。     

An improved multiscale noise tuning of stochastic resonance for identifying multiple transient faults in rolling element bearings

Stochastic resonance (SR), a noise-assisted tool, has been proved to be very powerful in weak signal detection. The multiscale noise tuning SR (MSTSR), which breaks the restriction of the requirement of small parameters and white noise in classical SR, has been applied to identify the characteristic frequency of a bearing. However, the multiscale noise tuning (MST), which is originally based on discrete wavelet transform (DWT), limits the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) improvement of SR and the performance in identifying multiple bearing faults. In this paper, the wavelet packet transform (WPT) is developed and incorporated into the MSTSR method to overcome its shortcomings and to further enhance its capability in multiple faults detection of bearings. The WPT-based MST can achieve a finer tuning of multiscale noise and aims at detecting multiple target frequencies separately. By introducing WPT into the MST of SR, this paper proposes an improved SR method particularly suited for the identification of multiple transient faults in rolling element bearings. Simulated and practical bearing signals carrying multiple characteristic frequencies are employed to validate the performance improvement of the proposed method as compared to the original DWT-based MSTSR method. The results confirm the good capability of the proposed method in multi-fault diagnosis of rolling element bearings.     

Analyses of contact forces and vibration response for a defective rolling element bearing using an explicit dynamics finite element model

This paper provides insights into the physical mechanism by which defect-related impulsive forces, and consequently, vibrations are generated in defective rolling element bearings. A dynamic nonlinear finite element model of a rolling element bearing with an outer raceway defect was numerically solved using the explicit dynamics finite element software package, LS-DYNA. A hypothesis was developed to explain the numerical noise observed in the predicted vibrations and contact forces, and the noise frequencies were analytically estimated. In-depth analyses of the numerically estimated dynamic contact forces between the rolling elements and the raceways of a bearing, which are not measured in practice, and have not been reported previously, are presented in this paper. Several events associated with the traverse of the rolling elements through the outer raceway defect are elaborated, and the impulsive force generating mechanism is explained. It was found that the re-stressing of the rolling elements that occurs near the end of a raceway defect generates a burst of multiple short-duration force impulses. The modelling results also highlight that much higher contact forces and accelerations are generated on the exit of the rolling elements out of defect compared to when they strike the defective surface. A bearing with a machined outer raceway defect was tested in a controlled experiment; the measured acceleration response compared favourably with the numerically modelled acceleration results, thereby, validating the low- and high-frequency characteristics of the de-stressing and re-stressing of the rolling elements, respectively.     

Multi-Sensor Vibration Signal Based Three-Stage Fault Prediction for Rotating Mechanical Equipment

In order to reduce maintenance costs and avoid safety accidents, it is of great significance to carry out fault prediction to reasonably arrange maintenance plans for rotating mechanical equipment. At present, the relevant research mainly focuses on fault diagnosis and remaining useful life (RUL) predictions, which cannot provide information on the specific health condition and fault types of rotating mechanical equipment in advance. In this paper, a novel three-stage fault prediction method is presented to realize the identification of the degradation period and the type of failure simultaneously. Firstly, based on the vibration signals from multiple sensors, a convolutional neural network (CNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) network are combined to extract the spatiotemporal features of the degradation period and fault type by means of the cross-entropy loss function. Then, to predict the degradation trend and the type of failure, the attention-bidirectional (Bi)-LSTM network is used as the regression model to predict the future trend of features. Furthermore, the predicted features are given to the support vector classification (SVC) model to identify the specific degradation period and fault type, which can eventually realize a comprehensive fault prediction. Finally, the NSF I/UCR Center for Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS) dataset is used to verify the feasibility and efficiency of the proposed fault prediction method.     

Clustering diagnosis of rolling element bearing fault based on integrated Autoregressive/Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity model

Feature extraction plays an important role in the clustering analysis. In this paper an integrated Autoregressive (AR)/Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (ARCH) model is proposed to characterize the vibration signal and the model coefficients are adopted as feature vectors to realize clustering diagnosis of rolling element bearings. The main characteristic is that the AR item and ARCH item are interrelated with each other so that it can depict the excess kurtosis and volatility clustering information in the vibration signal more accurately in comparison with two-stage AR/ARCH model. To testify the correctness, four kinds of bearing signals are adopted for parametric modeling by using the integrated and two-stage AR/ARCH model. The variance analysis of the model coefficients shows that the integrated AR/ARCH model can get more concentrated distribution. Taking these coefficients as feature vectors, K means based clustering is utilized to realize the automatic classification of bearing fault status. The results show that the proposed method can get more accurate results in comparison with two-stage model and discrete wavelet decomposition.     

State Estimation of an Underwater Markov Chain Maneuvering Target Using Intelligent Computing

In this study, an application of deep learning-based neural computing is proposed for efficient real-time state estimation of the Markov chain underwater maneuvering object. The designed intelligent strategy is exploiting the strength of nonlinear autoregressive with an exogenous input (NARX) network model, which has the capability for estimating the dynamics of the systems that follow the discrete-time Markov chain. Nonlinear Bayesian filtering techniques are often applied for underwater maneuvering state estimation applications by following state-space methodology. The robustness and precision of NARX neural network are efficiently investigated for accurate state prediction of the passive Markov chain highly maneuvering underwater target. A continuous coordinated turning trajectory of an underwater maneuvering object is modeled for analyzing the performance of the neural computing paradigm. State estimation modeling is developed in the context of bearings only tracking technology in which the efficiency of the NARX neural network is investigated for ideal and complex ocean environments. Real-time position and velocity of maneuvering object are computed for five different cases by varying standard deviations of white Gaussian measured noise. Sufficient Monte Carlo simulation results validate the competence of NARX neural computing over conventional generalized pseudo-Bayesian filtering algorithms like an interacting multiple model extended Kalman filter and an interacting multiple model unscented Kalman filter.     

基于鲁棒模糊聚类的混沌时间序列预测

采用一种基于鲁棒模糊聚类算法的模糊辨识方法,通过引入局部划分关联度因子,增强了系统辨识的抗干扰能力,提高了系统辨识的鲁棒性.首先用最近邻模糊聚类法划分初始输入空间,得到模糊规则数及初始聚类中心;然后用鲁棒模糊聚类算法求解并优化模糊隶属度和聚类中心,建立高精度的T-S模糊模型;最后利用最小二乘法辨识模型的初始结论参数,进一步利用带遗忘因子的递推最小二乘法优化结论参数.采用该方法对Mackey-Glass混沌时间序列进行建模和预测,仿真结果表明利用本方法可以进行准确建模和预测,验证了本方法的鲁棒性、有效性和实 关键词： 最近邻模糊聚类 鲁棒模糊聚类 混沌时间序列 最小二乘法     

分子构象聚类中的K-means密度峰值搜索算法

分子构象的聚类是搜索分子动力学模拟轨迹中代表构象的主要方法。 它是分析复杂构象改变或分子间相互作用机制的关键步骤. 作为一种基于密度的聚类算法,密度峰值搜索算法因其聚类的准确度而被应用于分子聚类过程中. 但随着模拟时长的增长,密度峰值搜索算法较低的计算效率限制了其应用的可能. 本文提出K-means密度峰值搜索算法的聚类算法,它是密度峰值搜索算法在计算效率方面的一个扩展版本,用于解决密度峰值搜索算法中巨大的资源消耗问题. 在K-means密度峰值搜索算法中,首先,通过高效的聚类算法(例如K-means)进行初始聚类,得到的聚类中心被定义为具有权重的典型点. 然后,对加权的典型点通过密度峰值搜索算法实现二次聚类,并细化点为核心点、边界点、加细光晕点. 在与密度峰值搜索算法具有相似的精度的同时,计算复杂度由O(n²)降至O(n). 通过二面角,二级结构,关联图描述的分子构象,将KFDP用于多个模拟轨迹的聚类过程中. 并通过与K-means聚类算法,DBSCAN聚类算法的比较结果,验证了K-means密度峰值搜索算法的优势.     

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。     

Reliable Fault Diagnosis of Bearings Using an Optimized Stacked Variational Denoising Auto-Encoder

Variational auto-encoders (VAE) have recently been successfully applied in the intelligent fault diagnosis of rolling bearings due to its self-learning ability and robustness. However, the hyper-parameters of VAEs depend, to a significant extent, on artificial settings, which is regarded as a common and key problem in existing deep learning models. Additionally, its anti-noise capability may face a decline when VAE is used to analyze bearing vibration data under loud environmental noise. Therefore, in order to improve the anti-noise performance of the VAE model and adaptively select its parameters, this paper proposes an optimized stacked variational denoising autoencoder (OSVDAE) for the reliable fault diagnosis of bearings. Within the proposed method, a robust network, named variational denoising auto-encoder (VDAE), is, first, designed by integrating VAE and a denoising auto-encoder (DAE). Subsequently, a stacked variational denoising auto-encoder (SVDAE) architecture is constructed to extract the robust and discriminative latent fault features via stacking VDAE networks layer on layer, wherein the important parameters of the SVDAE model are automatically determined by employing a novel meta-heuristic intelligent optimizer known as the seagull optimization algorithm (SOA). Finally, the extracted latent features are imported into a softmax classifier to obtain the results of fault recognition in rolling bearings. Experiments are conducted to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method. The results of analysis indicate that the proposed method not only can achieve a high identification accuracy for different bearing health conditions, but also outperforms some representative deep learning methods.     

Rolling bearing vibrations—The effects of geometrical imperfections and wear

The geometrical shape and surface properties of the components of rolling bearings will always deviate to some extent from their theoretical design. For bearings of standard tolerances these deviations are large enough to cause measurable levels of vibrations when the bearing is in operation. The purpose of this paper is to show in some detail how these surface irregularities are related to the vibration characteristics of the bearing. The study is restricted to radial bearings, having a radial load and a positive clearance. The approximate methods used render the results useful mainly for lightly loaded bearings operating at low and moderate speeds. Attention has been focused on the effects of inner ring waviness and non-uniform diameters of the rolling elements. A mixed theoretical and experimental impedance approach has been used to treat the bearing when fitted in a simple machine structure, thereby showing how resulting vibrations of the bearing pedestal can be calculated, with account taken of the effects of bearing, rotor and foundation properties. During operation bearings undergo progressive surface and subsurface deterioration. These alterations of geometrical and surface properties of bearing components will always be accompanied by some degree of change of the vibrations characteristics of the bearing. Two common modes of surface deterioration—spalling fatigue and abrasive wear—have been studied, the practical objective being to highlight some possible methods of condition monitoring and prediction of impending bearing failure.     

Dimensional Amplitude Response Analysis of Vibrations Produced by Defects in Rolling Contact Bearings

Usage of rolling contact bearings in variety of rotor-dynamic applications has put forth a need to develop a detailed and easy to implement techniques for the assessment of damage related features in these bearings so that before mechanical failure, maintenance actions can be planned well in advance. In accordance to this, a method based on dimensional amplitude response analysis and scaling laws is presented in this paper for the diagnosis of defects in different components of rolling contact bearings in a dimensionally scaled rotor-bearing system. Rotor, bearing, operating and defect parameters involved are detailed for dimensional analysis using frequency domain vibration data. A defect parameter for modeling all the three dimensions of the defect as well as the different shapes like square, circular, rectangular is put forth which takes into account the volume as well as the surface area of the defect. Experimental data set is generated for the ‘model’ bearing (designated as SKF30205J2/Q) using Box-Behnken design of response surface methodology for solution of the theoretical model by factorial regression approach. Obtained metamodel is then used for the prediction of the objective variable, i.e., Vibration acceleration amplitude at the defect frequency component for other types of ‘test’ bearings (designated as SKF 30305C and SKF 22220 EK) using the developed scaling laws. Confirmation experiments showed that the computable relationship amongst objective variable and the dimensionless parameters can be forecast and correlated.     

基于粒子滤波状态估计的滚动轴承故障识别方法

提出了一种基于粒子滤波状态估计的滚动轴承故障识别方法,该方法主要包括故障模型建立和故障识别两个步骤。在故障模型建立部分,首先依据滚动轴承不同故障状态下的振动信号,建立对应的自回归模型,作为故障模型;在故障识别部分,将正常状态下对应的模型,转化为状态空间模型,设计粒子滤波器,然后对不同的故障状态进行估计,提取其残差的相关特征,并结合模型参数特征应用BP神经网络识别算法进行故障识别。最后以美国凯斯西储大学的滚动轴承振动数据为例,验证了该方法的有效性。     

基于油液光谱分析和粒子滤波的发动机剩余寿命预测研究

油液光谱分析是机械磨损状态监测、故障诊断与故障预测的重要技术,基于光谱数据的机械状态剩余寿命预测有利于实现机械系统的最优维修决策。由于机械设备越来越复杂,其健康状态的退化过程很难用线性模型来表示,而粒子滤波(particle filter, PF)对非线性非高斯系统的处理能力,与经典Kalman滤波相比具有明显的优势,文章将PF预测方法运用于光谱分析,提出了基于PF和油液光谱分析技术的设备剩余寿命预测方法。在预测模型中实现了根据设备后验分布的估计值预测其先验分布概率,建立了基于PF的多步向前长期预测模型。最后,对某发动机实际的光谱分析数据进行了预测和分析,并与传统Kalman滤波方法的预测结果进行了比较,结果充分表明了本方法的有效性和优越性。     

A Bearing Fault Diagnosis Method Based on PAVME and MEDE

When rolling bearings have a local fault, the real bearing vibration signal related to the local fault is characterized by the properties of nonlinear and nonstationary. To extract the useful fault features from the collected nonlinear and nonstationary bearing vibration signals and improve diagnostic accuracy, this paper proposes a new bearing fault diagnosis method based on parameter adaptive variational mode extraction (PAVME) and multiscale envelope dispersion entropy (MEDE). Firstly, a new method hailed as parameter adaptive variational mode extraction (PAVME) is presented to process the collected original bearing vibration signal and obtain the frequency components related to bearing faults, where its two important parameters (i.e., the penalty factor and mode center-frequency) are automatically determined by whale optimization algorithm. Subsequently, based on the processed bearing vibration signal, an effective complexity evaluation approach named multiscale envelope dispersion entropy (MEDE) is calculated for conducting bearing fault feature extraction. Finally, the extracted fault features are fed into the k-nearest neighbor (KNN) to automatically identify different health conditions of rolling bearing. Case studies and contrastive analysis are performed to validate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method. Experimental results show that the proposed method can not only effectively extract bearing fault features, but also obtain a high identification accuracy for bearing fault patterns under single or variable speed.     

Discussion About Nonlinear Time Series Prediction Using Least Squares Support Vector Machine

The least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) is used to study the nonlinear time series prediction. First, the parameter γ and multi-step prediction capabilities of the LS-SVM network are discussed. Then we employ clustering method in the model to prune the number of the support values. The learning rate and the capabilities of filtering noise for LS-SVM are all greatly improved.     

Hierarchical Amplitude-Aware Permutation Entropy-Based Fault Feature Extraction Method for Rolling Bearings

In order to detect the incipient fault of rolling bearings and to effectively identify fault characteristics, based on amplitude-aware permutation entropy (AAPE), an enhanced method named hierarchical amplitude-aware permutation entropy (HAAPE) is proposed in this paper to solve complex time series in a new dynamic change analysis. Firstly, hierarchical analysis and AAPE are combined to excavate multilevel fault information, both low-frequency and high-frequency components of the abnormal bearing vibration signal. Secondly, from the experimental analysis, it is found that HAAPE is sensitive to the early failure of rolling bearings, which makes it suitable to evaluate the performance degradation of a bearing in its run-to-failure life cycle. Finally, a fault feature selection strategy based on HAAPE is put forward to select the bearing fault characteristics after the application of the least common multiple in singular value decomposition (LCM-SVD) method to the fault vibration signal. Moreover, several other entropy-based methods are also introduced for a comparative analysis of the experimental data, and the results demonstrate that HAAPE can extract fault features more effectively and with a higher accuracy.     

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.