Complex signal analysis for wind turbine planetary gearbox fault diagnosis via iterative atomic decomposition thresholding

The vibration signals from complex structures such as wind turbine (WT) planetary gearboxes are intricate. Reliable analysis of such signals is the key to success in fault detection and diagnosis for complex structures. The recently proposed iterative atomic decomposition thresholding (IADT) method has shown to be effective in extracting true constituent components of complicated signals and in suppressing background noise interferences. In this study, such properties of the IADT are exploited to analyze and extract the target signal components from complex signals with a focus on WT planetary gearboxes under constant running conditions. Fault diagnosis for WT planetary gearboxes has been a very important yet challenging issue due to their harsh working conditions and complex structures. Planetary gearbox fault diagnosis relies on detecting the presence of gear characteristic frequencies or monitoring their magnitude changes. However, a planetary gearbox vibration signal is a mixture of multiple complex components due to the unique structure, complex kinetics and background noise. As such, the IADT is applied to enhance the gear characteristic frequencies of interest, and thereby diagnose gear faults. Considering the spectral properties of planetary gearbox vibration signals, we propose to use Fourier dictionary in the IADT so as to match the harmonic waves in frequency domain and pinpoint the gear fault characteristic frequency. To reduce computing time and better target at more relevant signal components, we also suggest a criterion to estimate the number of sparse components to be used by the IADT. The performance of the proposed approach in planetary gearbox fault diagnosis has been evaluated through analyzing the numerically simulated, lab experimental and on-site collected signals. The results show that both localized and distributed gear faults, both the sun and planet gear faults, can be diagnosed successfully.     

A time domain approach to diagnose gearbox fault based on measured vibration signals

Spectral analysis techniques to process vibration measurements have been widely studied to characterize the state of gearboxes. However, in practice, the modulated sidebands resulting from the local gear fault are often difficult to extract accurately from an ambiguous/blurred measured vibration spectrum due to the limited frequency resolution and small fluctuations in the operating speed of the machine that often occurs in an industrial environment. To address this issue, a new time-domain diagnostic algorithm is developed and presented herein for monitoring of gear faults, which shows an improved fault extraction capability from such measured vibration signals. This new time-domain fault detection method combines the fast dynamic time warping (Fast DTW) as well as the correlated kurtosis (CK) techniques to characterize the local gear fault, and identify the corresponding faulty gear and its position. Fast DTW is employed to extract the periodic impulse excitations caused from the faulty gear tooth using an estimated reference signal that has the same frequency as the nominal gear mesh harmonic and is built using vibration characteristics of the gearbox operation under presumed healthy conditions. This technique is beneficial in practical analysis to highlight sideband patterns in situations where data is often contaminated by process/measurement noises and small fluctuations in operating speeds that occur even at otherwise presumed steady-state conditions. The extracted signal is then resampled for subsequent diagnostic analysis using CK technique. CK takes advantages of the periodicity of the geared faults; it is used to identify the position of the local gear fault in the gearbox. Based on simulated gear vibration signals, the Fast DTW and CK based approach is shown to be useful for condition monitoring in both fixed axis as well as epicyclic gearboxes. Finally the effectiveness of the proposed method in fault detection of gears is validated using experimental signals from a planetary gearbox test rig. For fault detection in planetary gear-sets, a window function is introduced to account for the planet motion with respect to the fixed sensor, which is experimentally determined and is later employed for the estimation of reference signal used in Fast DTW algorithm.     

基于Bayesian估计的X射线脉冲星微弱信号检测

累积轮廓、流量和周期是X射线脉冲星辐射信号的三个重要特征,将其应用于X射线脉冲星信号检测中,提出了一种基于Bayesian估计的X射线脉冲星周期辐射信号时域检测方法.该方法以非脉冲区噪声观测为先验知识,利用X射线脉冲星辐射信号的泊松分布模型推导了信号概率密度分布函数,以该函数的累积分布函数为判据,对X射线脉冲星微弱信号进行检测,并提取位相偏移量.利用仿真数据和RXTE卫星的实测数据进行实验验证,结果表明:本文方法性能优于同类的基于高斯分布模型的检测方法,在检测信号的同时能在一定精度下给出信号位相偏移值. 关键词： 脉冲星 Bayesian估计 位相测量 时域检测     

基于循环平稳信号相干统计量的脉冲星周期估计新方法

讨论了脉冲星的周期估计在脉冲星搜索中的重要性.将脉冲星观测信号建模为二阶循环平稳模型,仿真验证了其合理性.在此基础上,提出了一种基于双谱相干统计量的周期估计新方法,并给出了稳健有效的周期搜索策略以消除其对数据量的敏感性.分别对单脉冲脉冲星(PSR J0437-4715)的实测信号和双脉冲脉冲星(PSR B1821-24)的仿真信号进行了周期估计,实验表明,相比较于常用的傅里叶频谱法,该时域方法直观、有效,在低信噪比情况下仍具有很好的性能,且适用于非连续观测数据.尽管方法运算量较大,但仍然可为微弱脉冲星的周 关键词： 脉冲星 脉冲星搜索 周期估计 循环平稳信号     

Experimental research for direction of arrival estimation based on signal phase matching principle

In order to test the validity of signal phase matching principle (SPMP) applied to direction of arrival (DOA) estimation, experiments are carried out at a reservoir using 16 sensors array. Two kinds of method, Least Square Method for Signal Matching principle (LSMSPM) and singular value decomposition method for signal matching principle (SVDSPM), are used for DOA estimation. Their performances were analyzed and compared with MUSIC and conventional beam-forming (CBF) method. The results show that the 3 dB beam width obtained by SPMP is 1/4 to 1/7 as much as that obtained by CBF and 1/2 to 1/3 by MUSIC method. In addition, LSMSPM and SVDSPM are available for multi-sources DOA estimation and high resolution DOA estimation, which demonstrates that DOA estimation by SPMP method is better than that by MUSIC and CBF method.     

利用信号相位匹配原理的声源方位估计实验研究

为了验证信号相位匹配原理的正确性,利用自制的16元线列阵,在水库进行了声源定向实验研究。分析了信号相位匹配原理的方位估计性能,并与MUSIC方法和常规波束形成方法的方位估计结果进行了比较;实验表明:由该原理定向的指向性半功率点开角是常规波束形成方法半功率点歼角的1/4~1/7和MUSIC方法的1/2~1/3。利用船舶航行噪声的多目标定向仿真和高分辨方位估计仿真结果表明:信弓相位匹配原理方位估计算法用于多目标方位估计和高分辨方位估计是可行的。     

No-reference image noise estimation based on noise level accumulation

In this paper, a method of no-reference image noise assessment is presented, which utilizes the estimated noise level accumulation (NLA) index value. The affine reconstruction model is applied after segmenting the noisy image into several patches. Boundary blur process is conducted to smooth the segmentation edges. For each image patch the mean value standing for brightness and the standard deviation value indicating the noise standard deviation are computed to give the noise samples estimation. The accurate image noise standard deviation is estimated by integrating NLA index value of several overlapped intervals combined with different visual weights. Experiment results are provided to demonstrate that the proposed method performs well for images with different contents over a large range of noise levels both monotonously and accurately. Comparisons against other conventional approaches are also carried out to exhibit the superior performance of the proposed algorithm.     

Vibration signal models for fault diagnosis of planetary gearboxes

A thorough understanding of the spectral structure of planetary gear system vibration signals is helpful to fault diagnosis of planetary gearboxes. Considering both the amplitude modulation and the frequency modulation effects due to gear damage and periodically time variant working condition, as well as the effect of vibration transfer path, signal models of gear damage for fault diagnosis of planetary gearboxes are given and the spectral characteristics are summarized in closed form. Meanwhile, explicit equations for calculating the characteristic frequency of local and distributed gear fault are deduced. The theoretical derivations are validated using both experimental and industrial signals. According to the theoretical basis derived, manually created local gear damage of different levels and naturally developed gear damage in a planetary gearbox can be detected and located.     

宽带波束域相干信号子空间高分辨方位估计

提出了宽带波束域相干信号子空间目标高分辨方位估计的频域处理与时域处理方法。分别设计出一组覆盖观察扇面的频域和时域低旁瓣恒定主瓣响应宽带波束形成器,然后对频域或时域波束形成器输出数据运用MUSIC方法估计目标方位。时域处理方法不需要进行频带分解,相对于频域处理需要较少的缓存和运算量。所提出的方法还可以在保证波束主瓣响应恒定的同时,通过在旁瓣区域形成期望宽度和深度的凹槽,用于抑制观察扇面外强干扰源。计算机仿真结果表明,本文的时域处理方法能够获得与本文频域处理方法相近的方位分辨与估计性能,它们都能够分辨相干信号源,且方位分辨与估计性能都高于已有方法。通过在干扰方位设计凹槽,较好地抑制了观察扇面外强干扰源,改善了对相干的弱信号源的方位分辨与估计性能。     

基于中国余数定理的欠采样下余弦信号的频率估计

基于中国余数定理的重构算法的信号频率估计是近年来信号处理、电磁学以及光学等领域的前沿问题,但目前这些研究仅限于对复指数信号做粗略频率估计.因而,本文把基于中国余数定理的频率估计从复指数信号粗估计拓展到实余弦信号精细估计领域,其所提出的估计方案处理过程如下:1)对高频余弦波形进行过零点检测,确定信号的相位信息;2)对各路欠采样信号做快速傅里叶变换,并借助Candan估计器对各路谱峰值做频率校正以获取高精度余数估计,基于此算出频偏值以做相位校正;3)用提出的基于相位特征分类方法对校正得到的余数做筛选;4)将筛选出的频率余数代入闭合形式的中国余数定理得到原信号频率的高精度估计.此外,本文还推导出了频率估计方差的理论表达式.数据模拟实验验证了该表达式的正确性,实验结果还反映了本文提出的方案具有高精度和高抗噪性能.     

一种基于遗传算法的混沌系统参数估计方法

通过构造一个适当的适应度函数,将混沌系统的参数估计问题转化为一个参数的寻优问题,然后利用遗传算法的全局优化搜索能力对其进行求解.以典型的Lorenz混沌系统为例进行了数值模拟.实际数值模拟表明,使用这种方法可以有效地对混沌系统的参数进行估计 关键词： 混沌系统 参数估计 遗传算法     

基于希尔伯特-黄变换双频信号的参数估计

为了提高双频信号参数估计在工程测量领域的精度,创新的提出了基于希尔伯特-黄变换和数据拟合算法估计双频信号参数的方法。输入系统的双频信号序列先经过EMD分解算法得到单频的信号序列,采用Hilbert变换得到信号的频率、幅值和相位信息,通过数据拟合算法对信号的频率、相位和幅值等进行校正,校正后参数的值可以精确到两位小数。为了增强该方法在操作上的便捷性和交互性,基于Matlab的GUI工具箱开发界面程序。     

广义互相关电晕放电辐射信号时延估计方法

电晕放电等辐射源定位多采用基于时延估计的时差定位方法实现的,在现场条件下,各种背景噪声和干扰对时延估计精度造成影响。在分析国内外研究动态的基础上,针对基本互相关时延估计存在的分辨率低、稳健性不高等局限性,研究基于广义互相关的时延估计算法,并且通过采用不同的权值函数进行仿真比较和实验验证,寻找适用于电晕放电辐射信号时延估计的方法。研究表明：基于Hassab-Boucher (HB)加权的广义互相关时延估计方法对实际测试环境中存在的周期性干扰具有较好的抑制效果,时延估计误差达4.5%,精度较高,在实际的工程应用中用于对电晕放电信号进行时延估计和远距离定位是可行的。     

基于二次相关的语音信号时延估计改进算法

目前语音信号的时延估计研究,大部分采用的是广义互相关算法。然而,广义互相关时延估计算法易受噪声和混响环境影响。为此,本文提出了一种基于二次相关的语音信号时延估计改进算法,该算法对语音信号进行二次互相关运算,并结合Hilbert变换,对二次互相关峰值进行进一步的锐化处理,使得反映时延的峰值点检测更为准确。实验结果表明,改进的时延估计方法在非平稳的语音信号中能够有效地抑制噪声干扰,且在不同混响条件下时延估计具有更好的性能。     

基于强耦合Duffing振子的微弱脉冲信号检测与参数估计

耦合Duffing振子在检测强噪声中的微弱脉冲信号时具有可检测信噪比低等优点,但目前检测模型还存在系统性能与初始状态有关、只能工作在倍周期分岔状态等缺陷.为此本文构建了一种能克服上述缺点的新的微弱脉冲信号检测模型,通过对两个Duffing振子同时施加较大的恢复力和阻尼力耦合,可使振子间产生广义的"阱内失同步"现象,基于这种现象可实现微弱脉冲信号的检测与恢复.以信噪比改善和波形相似度为衡量指标,研究了周期策动力幅值与周期、耦合系数、计算步长、阻尼系数等参量对模型信号检测与波形恢复效果的影响.对方波、双指数脉冲和高斯导数脉冲进行检测和恢复的实验结果表明,本文所构建的模型能够在较低信噪比条件下有效地检测并恢复出高斯白噪声背景中的微弱脉冲信号,进而改善了现有的Duffing振子对非周期脉冲信号的检测能力并扩展了其应用领域.     

Chaotic signal detection and estimation based on attractor sets: applications to secure communications

We consider the problem of detection and estimation of chaotic signals in the presence of white Gaussian noise. Traditionally this has been a difficult problem since generalized likelihood ratio tests are difficult to implement due to the chaotic nature of the signals of interest. Based on Poincare's recurrence theorem we derive an algorithm for approximating a chaotic time series with unknown initial conditions. The algorithm approximates signals using elements carefully chosen from a dictionary constructed based on the chaotic signal's attractor. We derive a detection approach based on the signal estimation algorithm and show, with simulated data, that the new approach can outperform other methods for chaotic signal detection. Finally, we describe how the attractor based detection scheme can be used in a secure binary digital communications protocol.     

An innovation based random weighting estimation mechanism for denoising fiber optic gyro drift signal

In Interferometric Fiber Optic Gyroscope (IFOG), the diminution of random noise and drift error is a critical task. These errors degrade the performance of IFOG. In this paper, a modified adaptive Kalman gain correction (AKFG) algorithm is proposed to denoise IFOG signal. The covariance matrix of innovation sequence is estimated using weighted average window method in which the weights are randomly generated in the range [0, 1]. Innovation based random weighted estimation (IRWE)-AKFG is applied to denoise the IFOG drift signal. The Kalman gain is adaptively updated using the covariance matrix of innovation sequence. The proposed algorithm is applied for denoising IFOG signal under static and dynamic environment. Allan variance method is used to analyze and quantify the stochastic errors in IFOG sensor. The performance of the proposed algorithm is compared with Conventional Kalman filter (CKF) and the simulation results reveal that the proposed algorithm is an efficient algorithm for denoising the IFOG signal.     

基于FOA-LM算法的超声回波信号参数估计

在超声回波参数估计中,搜索莱文伯格一马夸特(Levenberg-Marquard,LM)算法的最优解会受到迭代初值与参数向量真实解接近程度的影响。针对LM算法对迭代初值敏感的问题,提出了果蝇优化算法(Fruit fly optimization algorithm,FOA)算法和LM算法结合的参数估计方法。该方法充分利用FOA算法善于进行全局搜索和LM算法善于进行局部快速搜索的优点,首先使用FOA算法求出超声回波信号的参数初值,然后利用这组初值进行LM法迭代搜索。仿真结果表明,基于FOA和LM算法相结合的方法,具有收敛速度快,精度高的特点。     

基于遗传算法的超声信号LMS自适应时延估计

为了克服ＬＭＳ自适应时延估计（ＬＭＳＴＤＥ）算法计算量大的问题,引进遗传算法进行ＬＭＳＴＤＥ的寻优规划,并采取了克服过早收敛的措施。对超声信号进行时延估计的实验表明,该方法大大减少了计算量,并有较高的时延估计精度。     

传声器阵列波束比判决语音增强方法

针对单一波束形成器难以深度抑制空间相干干扰的问题,提出了一种综合了最小方差无畸变响应波束形成器与对称子阵延时求和波束形成器的语音增强方法。定义了一种波束输出比因子,根据该因子在目标声区域和干扰声区域的幅值变化,给出了采样协方差矩阵对角加载量的调整方法,并进一步利用该因子在后滤波环节对空间干扰进行判决滤波。文中对判决滤波时的上限阈值和下限阈值的实时更新方法给出了说明。所提出的算法能进一步抑制空间干扰和噪声,且可满足实时需要。在传声器圆阵上的实验表明,该方法在输出信干噪比及语音质量上,均优于经典对角加载算法及采样协方差矩阵扫描重构算法。