A multiscale noise tuning stochastic resonance for fault diagnosis in rolling element bearings

Condition monitoring of rotating machinery is important to extend the mechanical system's reliability and operational life. However, in many cases, useful information is often overwhelmed by strong background noise and the defect frequency is difficult to be extracted. Stochastic resonance (SR) is used as a noise-assisted tool to amplify weak signals in nonlinear systems, which can detect weak signals of interest submerged in the noise. The multiscale noise tuning SR (MSTSR), which is originally based on discrete wavelet transform (DWT), has been applied to identify the fault characteristics and has also increased the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) improvement of SR. Therefore, a novel tri-stable SR method with multiscale noise tuning (MST) is proposed to extract fault signatures for fault diagnosis of rotating machinery. The wavelet packets transform (WPT) based MST can obtain better denoising effect and higher SNR of resonance output compared with the traditional SR method. Thus the proposed method is well-suited for enhancement of rotating machine fault identification, whose effectiveness has been verified by means of practical vibration signals carrying fault information from bearings. Finally, it can be concluded that the proposed method has practical value in engineering.     

Double Gaussian potential stochastic resonance method and its application in centrifugal fan blade crack detection

Stochastic resonance (SR) has been extensively utilized in the field of weak fault signal detection for its characteristic of enhancing weak signals by transferring the noise energy. Aiming at solving the output saturation problem of the classical bistable stochastic resonance (CBSR) system, a double Gaussian potential stochastic resonance (DGSR) system is proposed. Moreover, the output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the DGSR method is derived based on the adiabatic approximation theory to analyze the effect of system parameters on the DGSR method. At the same time, for the purpose of overcoming the drawback that the traditional SNR index needs to know the fault characteristic frequency (FCF), the weighted local signal-to-noise ratio (WLSNR) index is constructed. The DGSR with WLSNR can obtain optimal parameters adaptively, thereby establishing the DGSR system. Ultimately, a DGSR method is proposed and applied in centrifugal fan blade crack detection. Through simulations and experiments, the effectiveness and superiority of the DGSR method are verified.     

A novel piecewise tri-stable stochastic resonance system with time-delayed feedback and its application

It is of great significance to judge whether mechanical equipment has faults, so it is necessary to study the extraction of mechanical fault characteristic signals. Stochastic resonance (SR) has been applied diffusely in feature extraction because of its excellent output performance, but there are few studies on SR with time-delay feedback (TF) terms. In some cases, the output of the system will be improved when the TF term is added to the SR system, so it is meaningful to study the SR with TF term. Because piecewise tri-stable system has good characteristics of overcoming output saturation, on the basis of piecewise tri-stable SR (PTSR), the time-delay feedback PTSR (TFPTSR) is proposed, and for purpose of further studying the internal mechanism of this system, its generalized potential function and the law that the parameter causes its change are derived and studied. Then the probability density function (PDF) of the proposed model and its mean first-passage time (MFPT) are calculated and compared with the variation of the generalized potential function together with the Signal to noise ratio (SNR), through such research, the difficulty of the system to produce stochastic resonance and the degree of the output performance are directly related to the system parameters. Finally, the proposed TFPTSR method processes the same signal as the PTSR method, and it is found that the TFPTSR method can get better output SNR.     

Stochastic Resonance in a Linear Fractional Langevin Equation

The fractional Langevin equation is derived from the generalized Langevin equation driven by the additive fractional Gaussian noise. We investigate the stochastic resonance (SR) phenomenon in the underdamped linear fractional Langevin equation under the external periodic force and multiplicative symmetric dichotomous noise. Applying the Shapiro-Loginov formula and the Laplace transform technique, we obtain the exact expressions of the amplitude and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the system. By studying the impacts of the driving frequency and the noise parameters, we find the non-monotonic behaviors of the output amplitude and SNR. The results indicate that the bona fide SR, conventional SR and the wide sense of SR phenomena occur in the proposed linear fractional system.     

Characteristics of piecewise linear symmetric tri-stable stochastic resonance system and its application under different noises

Weak signal detection has become an important means of mechanical fault detections. In order to solve the problem of poor signal detection performance in classical tristable stochastic resonance system (CTSR), a novel unsaturated piecewise linear symmetric tristable stochastic resonance system (PLSTSR) is proposed. Firstly, by making the analysis and comparison of the output and input relationship between CTSR and PLSTSR, it is verified that the PLSTSR has good unsaturation characteristics. Then, on the basis of adiabatic approximation theory, the Kramers escape rate, the mean first-passage time (MFPT), and output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of PLSTSR are deduced, and the influences of different system parameters on them are studied. Combined with the adaptive genetic algorithm to synergistically optimize the system parameters, the PLSTSR and CTSR are used for numerically simulating the verification and detection of low-frequency, high-frequency, and multi-frequency signals. And the results show that the SNR and output amplitude of the PLSTSR are greatly improved compared with those of the CTSR, and the detection effect is better. Finally, the PLSTSR and CTSR are applied to the bearing fault detection under Gaussian white noise and Levy noise. The experimental results also show that the PLSTSR can obtain larger output amplitude and SNR, and can detect fault signals more easily, which proves that the system has better performance than other systems in bearing fault detection, and has good theoretical significance and practical value.     

Resonance behavior for an underdamped bistable system driven by square-wave signal and multiplicative noise

The stochastic resonance (SR) behavior for an underdamped bistable system driven by square-wave signal and multiplicative noise is investigated. Under the adiabatic approximation condition, the expression for the system output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is obtained. The analysis results show that stochastic multi-resonance phenomenon occurs when the SNR varies with the intensities of the multiplicative and additive noise. SR phenomenon can be observed on the curves of the SNR versus the system bias, versus the amplitude of the dichotomous noise and versus the amplitude of the square-wave signal. Moreover, the SNR varies non-monotonously with the variety of other system parameters.     

Stochastic resonance in an asymmetric bistable system driven by multiplicative and additive Gaussian noise and its application in bearing fault detection

The phenomenon of stochastic resonance (SR) in a new asymmetric bistable model is investigated. Firstly, a new asymmetric bistable model with an asymmetric term is proposed based on traditional bistable model and the influence of system parameters on the asymmetric bistable potential function is studied. Secondly, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) as the index of evaluating the model are researched. Thirdly, Applying the two-state theory and the adiabatic approximation theory, the analytical expressions of SNR is derived for the asymmetric bistable system driven by a periodic signal, unrelated multiplicative and additive Gaussian noise. Finally, the asymmetric bistable stochastic resonance (ABSR) is applied to the bearing fault detection and compared with classical bistable stochastic resonance (CBSR) and classical tri-stable stochastic resonance (CTSR). The numerical computations results show that:(1) the curve of SNR as a function of the additive Gaussian noise and multiplicative Gaussian noise first increased and then decreased with the different influence of the parameters a, b, r and A; This demonstrates that the phenomenon of SR can be induced by system parameters; (2) by parameter compensation method, the ABSR performs better in bearing fault detection than the CBSR and CTSR with merits of higher output SNR, better anti-noise and frequency response capability.     

Adaptive bistable stochastic resonance and its application in mechanical fault feature extraction

Stochastic resonance (SR) is an important approach to detect weak vibration signals from heavy background noise. In order to increase the calculation speed and improve the weak feature detection performance, a new bistable model has been built. With this model, an adaptive and fast SR method based on dyadic wavelet transform and least square system parameters solving is proposed in this paper. By adding the second-order differential item into the traditional bistable model, noise utilization can be increased and the quality of SR output signal can be improved. The iteration algorithm for implementing the adaptive SR is given. Compared with the traditional adaptive SR method, this algorithm does not need to set up the searching range and searching step size of the system parameters, but only requires a few iterations. The proposed method, discrete wavelet transform and the traditional adaptive SR method are applied to analyzing simulated vibration signals and extracting the fault feature of a rotor system. The contrastive results verify the superiority of the proposed method, and it can be effectively applied to weak mechanical fault feature extraction.     

Implication of two-coupled tri-stable stochastic resonance in weak signal detection

Stochastic resonance(SR) has been proved to be an effective approach to extract weak signals overwhelmed in noise.However, the detection effect of current SR models is still unsatisfactory. Here, a coupled tri-stable stochastic resonance(CTSSR) model is proposed to further increase the output signal-to-noise ratio(SNR) and improve the detection effect of SR. The effects of parameters a, b, c, and r in the proposed resonance system on the SNR are studied, by which we determine a set of parameters that is relatively optimal to implement a comparison with other classical SR models.Numerical experiment results indicate that this proposed model performs better in weak signal detection applications than the classical ones with merits of higher output SNR and better anti-noise capability.     

The characteristic analysis of stochastic resonance and bearing fault diagnosis based on NWSG model driven by trichotomous noise

In this paper, a new system whose potential function (NWSG) based on the joint of New Woods-Saxon potential function(NWSP) and Gaussian potential function(GP), driven by trichonomous is proposed to optimize the perform in bearing fault diagnosis. Firstly, exploring the influence of various system parameters on the shape of NWSG, besides, presenting a method of numerical simulation for trichotomous noise. The results show that the potential function can convert between three state, which is monostable, bistable, and tristable respectively, under different system parameter values. In addition, the mean of signal-noise ratio increase(MSNRI) is served as the measurement index of stochastic resonance (SR) for periodic signal detection, while traditional SR under optimal parameters. Finally, bearing fault diagnosis is carried out. It is found that the performance of the proposed system is better than traditional system which also verified in the bearing fault diagnosis.     

基于自适应随机共振理论的太赫兹雷达信号检测方法

太赫兹雷达系统在差频信号频谱分析过程中,干扰噪声影响其测距能力.针对上述问题,提出基于自适应随机共振理论的太赫兹雷达信号检测方法,通过对含噪差频信号进行二次采样,利用自适应随机共振系统提取信号,进行尺度恢复完成测距计算.实验数据显示,不同测量距离时,相较于快速傅里叶变换法,输出信噪比的平均增益为9.684 d B,其中测量距离为1000 mm处,差频信号初始频谱值提高了64.1倍,系统信噪比增益为11.761 d B;相较于滤波法,在测量距离为1000 mm处信噪比增益最大,提高了70.56%;输入噪声强度为1—5 V之间时,输出信噪比曲线的曲率相对于滤波法降低了86.5%,其中噪声强度为5 V时信噪比增益最大,为14.018 d B.实验表明太赫兹雷达系统的测距能力大幅提高.     

A novel parameter-induced adaptive stochastic resonance system based on composite multi-stable potential model

Stochastic resonance (SR) is used widely as a weak signal detection method by using noise in many fields. In order to improve the weak signal processing capability of SR, a novel composite multi-stable model is proposed, which is constructed by the joint of the tristable model and the Gaussian Potential (GP) model. The SR system based on this model is constructed and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is regarded as the index to measure the SR effect. The differential brain storm optimization (DBSO) algorithm is used to optimize the system parameters collaboratively to achieve parameter-induced adaptive SR. The influences of the system parameters V and R and the noise intensity D on the output response of SR system are analyzed under Gaussian white noise and α stable noise environments, and the advantages of the composite multi-stable SR system over the traditional tristable system are verified. For different levels of weak signals, the output performances of SR systems based on composite multi-stable model, traditional tristable model, composite tristable model are compared and analyzed. The results prove that the proposed model has better performance. Meanwhile, the adaptive detection of the multiple high-frequency weak signal is realized using the composite multi-stable SR system. The simulation results show that the proposed system has strong weak signal processing capability and good immunity to noise types, which widens the application range of SR in practical engineering.     

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.     

Improvement of signal-to-noise ratio by stochastic resonance in sigmoid function threshold systems, demonstrated using a CMOS inverter

Stochastic resonance (SR) has become a well-known phenomenon that can enhance weak periodic signals with the help of noise. SR is an interesting phenomenon when applied to signal processing. Although it has been proven that SR does not always improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), in a strongly nonlinear system such as simple threshold system, SR does in fact improve SNR for noisy pulsed signals at appropriate noise strength. However, even in such cases, when noise is weak, the SNR is degraded. Since the noise strength cannot be known in advance, it is difficult to apply SR to real signal processing. In this paper, we focused on the shape of the threshold at which SR did not degrade the SNR when noise was weak. To achieve output change when noise was weak, we numerically analyzed a sigmoid function threshold system. When the slope around the threshold was appropriate, SNR did not degrade when noise was weak and instead was improved at suitable noise strength. We also demonstrated SNR improvement for noisy pulsed voltages using a CMOS inverter, a very common threshold device. The input-output property of a CMOS inverter resembles the sigmoid function. By inputting the noisy signal voltage to a CMOS inverter, we measured the input and output voltages and analyzed the SNRs. The results showed that SNR was effectively improved over a wide range of noise strengths.     

三稳系统的动态响应及随机共振

以平衡点参数p, q构造出一类对称三稳势函数, 进而提出微弱信号和噪声共同驱动的三稳系统模型. 深入研究并总结参数p, q对势垒高度ΔU₁, ΔU₂及两势垒高度差的影响. 从定常输入的角度提出了系统稳态解曲线的概念, 并进一步研究低频谐波信号输入时系统的输出动态响应. 引入噪声, 三稳系统在合适的参数条件下实现随机共振, 从稳态解曲线的角度分析了噪声诱导的三稳系统随机共振机理. 最后研究了阻尼比k和平衡点参数p, q对系统随机共振的影响.     

Asymmetric delay feedback stochastic resonance detection method based on prior knowledge particle swarm optimization

For the adjustable parameters stochastic resonance system, the selection of the structural parameters plays a decisive role in the performance of the detection method. The vibration signal of rotating machinery is non-linear and unstable, and its weak fault characteristics are easily concealed by noise. Under strong background noise interference, the detection of fault features is particularly challenging. Therefore, a type of weak fault feature extraction method, named knowledge-based particle swarm optimization algorithm for asymptotic delayed feedback stochastic resonance (abbreviated as KPSO-ADFSR) is proposed. Through deduction under adiabatic approximation, we observe that both the asymmetric parameters, the length of delay and the feedback strength, impact the potential function. After adjusting the asymmetric parameters of the system, the output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is used as the fitness function, and the setting of the relationship between the noise intensity and barrier height is used as the prior knowledge of the particle swarm algorithm. Through this algorithm, the delay length and the feedback strength are optimized. This method achieves global optimization of system parameters in a short time; it overcomes the shortcomings of the traditional stochastic resonance method, which has a long convergence time and tends to easily fall into local optimization. It can effectively improve the detection of weak fault features. In the bearing rolling body pitting corrosion failure experiment and steel field engineering experiment, the proposed method could extract the characteristics of a weak fault more effectively than the traditional stochastic resonance method based on the standard particle swarm algorithm.     

Stochastic resonance in a single-well system with exponential potential driven by Levy noise

Noise and potential function are vital to stochastic resonance (SR). This paper attempts to broaden the research of the SR and explore a better potential function. Based on the absolute and exponential potentials, a generalized exponential type single-well potential function is constructed. Then the characteristics of the corresponding exponential type single-well SR (ESR) system driven by Levy noise is analyzed numerically. Firstly, the effects of the characteristic index α, symmetric parameter β and noise intensity D of Levy noise on the input signal to noise ratio (SNRi) are investigated. Then, the effects of system parameters a, b, r and noise intensity D on the resonant output is explored. Finally, the ESR system is applied to the fault characteristic extraction of rolling element bearings. The simulation results show that the SR phenomenon is able to be excited by tuning the parameters a, b, r and D under different values of α and β. The larger b (or a) widens the parameter interval of a (or b) which can induce SR. The ESR system is able to solve the problem that the traditional systems fail to achieve SR due to the improper selection of parameters. In bearing fault detection, the detection effect of the ESR system is superior to the bistable SR system.     

Detection of multi-frequency weak signals with adaptive stochastic resonance system

Aiming at the poor detection rate of multi-frequency weak signals under a strong background of noise, a novel method based on adaptive stochastic resonance (SR) theory is proposed in this paper. The optimal parameters can be obtained automatically via measurement by establishing an adaptive SR system model and using the reverse location method. After passing through the adaptive SR system, the spectrum values of all eight signals greatly improve, the largest spectrum value gain increases from 12.41 to 2033 when the frequency is 0.01?Hz, which is an improvement of a factor of 162.8, and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) gain of the whole system is 10.3134?dB. Under the condition of different input noise intensities and signal amplitudes, the mean SNR of the system increases from –13.1136 to –2.7614?dB, which is a 78.9% increase, and the largest SNR gain is 13.4702?dB when the noise intensity D?=?1.2 and signal amplitude A?=?0.11. Compared to the single optimal spectrum value, when defining multiple optimum spectrum values as the SNR criterion, the detection sensitivity is less than 0.35 when the input noise intensity is between 0.5 and 2.5, and the sensitivity value is 6.29 times higher when D?=?2.5. The system successfully realizes the adaptive detection of twelve weak signals, and the SNR gain is 7.9743?dB, which improves the channel capacity of signal detection. The experimental results demonstrate the high efficiency and strong applicability of the system, improving the signal processing efficiency and speed of signal transmission.     

Asymmetric stochastic resonance under non-Gaussian colored noise and time-delayed feedback

Based on adiabatic approximation theory, in this paper we study the asymmetric stochastic resonance system with time-delayed feedback driven by non-Gaussian colored noise. The analytical expressions of the mean first-passage time(MFPT) and output signal-to-noise ratio(SNR) are derived by using a path integral approach, unified colored-noise approximation(UCNA), and small delay approximation. The effects of time-delayed feedback and non-Gaussian colored noise on the output SNR are analyzed. Moreover, three types of asymmetric potential function characteristics are thoroughly discussed. And they are well-depth asymmetry(DASR), well-width asymmetry(WASR), and synchronous action of welldepth and well-width asymmetry(DWASR), respectively. The conclusion of this paper is that the time-delayed feedback can suppress SR, however, the non-Gaussian noise deviation parameter has the opposite effect. Moreover, the correlation time plays a significant role in improving SNR, and the SNR of asymmetric stochastic resonance is higher than that of symmetric stochastic resonance. Our experiments demonstrate that the appropriate parameters can make the asymmetric stochastic resonance perform better to detect weak signals than the symmetric stochastic resonance, in which no matter whether these signals have low frequency or high frequency, accompanied by strong or weak noise.     

Effects of combined harmonic and random excitations on a Brusselator model

We discuss the constructive role of combined harmonic and random excitation on stochastic resonance (SR) in a Brusselator model. We first numerically investigate SR determined by the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) in this model. Effects of different parameters on SR are described in detail. Our simulation results show that the intensity of the Gaussian colored noise and the amplitude of the periodic force can enhance SR. Moreover, an analytical framework is presented for the SNR of the Brusselator model, leading to a theoretical expression of SNR. We observe a good agreement between the theoretical and numerical results, and the effectiveness of the proposed theoretical method is verified. This theoretical analysis provides a global view on how the dynamics of a periodically forced system with noise changes in the vicinity of a Hopf bifurcation.