Anti-aliasing lifting scheme for mechanical vibration fault feature extraction

A troublesome problem in application of wavelet transform for mechanical vibration fault feature extraction is frequency aliasing. In this paper, an anti-aliasing lifting scheme is proposed to solve this problem. With this method, the input signal is firstly transformed by a redundant lifting scheme to avoid the aliasing caused by split and merge operations. Then the resultant coefficients and their single subband reconstructed signals are further processed to remove the aliasing caused by the unideal frequency property of lifting filters based on the fast Fourier transform (FFT) technique. Because the aliasing in each subband signal is eliminated, the ratio of signal to noise (SNR) is improved. The anti-aliasing lifting scheme is applied to analyze a practical vibration signal measured from a faulty ball bearing and testing results confirm that the proposed method is effective for extracting weak fault feature from a complex background. The proposed method is also applied to the fault diagnosis of valve trains in different working conditions on a gasoline engine. The experimental results show that using the features extracted from the anti-aliasing lifting scheme for classification can obtain a higher accuracy than using those extracted from the lifting scheme and the redundant lifting scheme.     

Adaptive filtering based system for extracting gearbox condition feature from the measured vibrations

Vibration signals measured from a gearbox are complex multi-component signals, generated by tooth meshing, gear shaft rotation, gearbox resonance vibration signatures and a substantial amount of noise. This article presents a novel scheme for extracting gearbox fault features using adaptive filtering techniques for enhancing condition features, meshing frequency sidebands. A modified least mean square (LMS) algorithm is developed and validated using only one accelerometer, instead of using two accelerometers in traditional arrangement, as the main signal and a desired signal is artificially generated from the measured shaft speed and gear meshing frequencies. The proposed scheme is applied to a signal simulated from gearbox frequencies with a numerous values of step size. Findings confirm that 10⁻⁵ step size invariably produces more accurate results and there has been a substantial improvement in signal clarity (better signal-to-noise ratio); which make meshing frequency sidebands more discernible. The developed scheme is validated via a number of experiments carried out using two-stage helical gearbox for a pair of healthy gears and one pair suffering from a tooth breakage with severity fault 1 (25% tooth removal), and fault 2 (50% tooth removal) under loads (0%, and 80% of the total load). The experimental results show remarkable improvements and enhance gear fault features. This paper illustrates that the new approach offers a more effective way to detect early faults.     

基于提升模式的非抽样小波变换及其在故障诊断中的应用

由于传统离散小波变换在分解信号时采用抽样操作，使原始信号的部分时域特征不能保留在分解结果中；另外，分解结果的平移可变，使得分解结果不能完美地描述故障的时域特征。为了克服上述缺陷，根据非抽样小波变换的原理，提出一种基于提升模式的非抽样小波变换框架。首先，通过信号变换方法去除提升小波变换的剖分环节，得到提升模式下的非抽样小波变换框架；在此基础上，建立提升模式下非抽样小波变换与抽样小波变换的预测器和更新器之间的转换关系，提出非抽样提升小波变换的分解和重构算法。采用这种非抽样小波变换从齿轮箱的振动信号中有效提取幅值调制和瞬态冲击的摩擦故障特征。     

NEW METHOD OF EXTRACTING WEAK FAILURE INFORMATION IN GEARBOX BY COMPLEX WAVELET DENOISING

Because the extract of the weak failure information is always the difficulty and focus of fault detection. Aiming for specific statistical properties of complex wavelet coefficients of gearbox vibration signals, a new signal-denoising method which uses local adaptive algorithm based on dual-tree complex wavelet transform （DT-CWT） is introduced to extract weak failure information in gear, especially to extract impulse components. By taking into account the non-Gaussian probability distribution and the statistical dependencies among wavelet coefficients of some signals, and by taking the advantage of near shift-invariance of DT-CWT, the higher signal-to-noise ratio （SNR） than common wavelet denoising methods can be obtained. Experiments of extracting periodic impulses in gearbox vibration signals indicate that the method can extract incipient fault feature and hidden information from heavy noise, and it has an excellent effect on identifying weak feature signals in gearbox vibration signals.     

Detection of Bearing Faults Using a Novel Adaptive Morphological Update Lifting Wavelet

The current morphological wavelet technologies utilize a fixed filter or a linear decomposition algorithm, which cannot cope with the sudden changes, such as impulses or edges in a signal effectively. This paper presents a novel signal processing scheme, adaptive morphological update lifting wavelet (AMULW), for rolling element bearing fault detection. In contrast with the widely used morphological wavelet, the filters in AMULW are no longer fixed. Instead, the AMULW adaptively uses a morphological dilation-erosion filter or an average filter as the update lifting filter to modify the approximation signal. Moreover, the nonlinear morphological filter is utilized to substitute the traditional linear filter in AMULW. The effectiveness of the proposed AMULW is evaluated using a simulated vibration signal and experimental vibration signals collected from a bearing test rig. Results show that the proposed method has a superior performance in extracting fault features of defective rolling element bearings.     

高速列车转向架区气动噪声分离研究

提出了一种基于快速路径优化的自适应短时傅里叶变换时频分析方法，并将该方法用于行星齿轮箱的故障诊断。该时频分析方法通过使用快速路径优化获得瞬时频率变化规律，在短时傅里叶变换过程中自适应的改变时窗长度，从而获得更恰当的时频分辨率。针对行星齿轮箱运行状态不稳定的特点，通过使用笔者提出的时频分析方法可以有效地提取出行星齿轮箱的转速信息，利用参考转速对故障信号角度域重采样和阶次分析，从而实现变转速情况下的行星齿轮箱故障诊断。仿真分析表明，与传统短时傅里叶变换相比基于快速路径优化的自适应短时傅里叶变换得到的时频分布能量更加集中；试验分析证明了基于快速路径优化的自适应短时傅里叶变换方法在行星齿轮箱故障诊断中的有效性。     

基于改进经验小波变换的行星齿轮箱故障诊断

行星齿轮箱振动信号具有复杂多分量和调幅-调频的特点。幅值解调和频率解调方法能够避免传统Fourier频谱中的复杂边带分析,有效识别故障特征频率。经验小波变换通过对信号Fourier频谱的分割构造一组正交滤波器组,能提取具有紧支撑Fourier频谱的单分量成分,再对单分量成分运用Hilbert变换即可实现信号的解调分析。经验小波变换能够有效分离出调幅-调频成分,不存在模态混叠现象,具有完备的理论基础,自适应性好、算法简单、计算速度快。将改进的经验小波变换应用于行星齿轮箱振动信号的解调分析;提出了一种单分量个数的估算方法,解决了经验小波变换中的Fourier频谱划分问题;给出了对故障敏感的信号分量的选取方法,提高了分析的针对性。将改进方法应用于行星齿轮箱振动仿真信号和实验信号分析,验证了该方法的有效性。     

基于注意力机制的一维卷积神经网络行星齿轮箱故障诊断

针对行星齿轮箱故障信号成分复杂和时变性强的特点,提出了基于注意力机制的一维卷积神经网络(１D-CNN )行星齿轮箱故障诊断方法.首先,将行星齿轮箱各类故障状态的原始振动信号进行分段处理,作为模型的输入;其次,利用一维卷积神经网络对行星齿轮箱的原始振动信号学习齿轮故障特征,结合注意力机制( AM )对特征序列自适应的赋予不同的权重,增强故障特征信息;最后,利用 Softmax 分类器实现行星齿轮箱的故障诊断.通过故障实验验证以及与其他模型的对比,该故障诊断模型具有较强的学习能力,诊断性能优于其他的深度学习模型,有较好的工程实际意义.     

基于EMD和分形的齿轮箱特征提取技术研究

齿轮箱故障诊断实质上是一个特征提取和状态识别的过程,在旋转机械研究中,其特征频率往往是已知或者可以计算的,而实际测量的机械振动信号往往含有故障特征以外的频率成分,为了避免多余信息的干扰,提出了结合EMD和分形几何算法的齿轮箱有效频率分量的特征提取方法。实验表明,该方法可以有效地计算出不同齿轮故障的特征值,实现了定量表征。     

基于自适应时变滤波阶比跟踪的齿轮箱故障诊断

针对多输入多输出齿轮箱传动系统和齿轮箱集群的振动信号中各啮合频率阶次相互干扰,从而导致故障诊断困难的问题,研究提出一种基于自适应时变滤波阶比跟踪的齿轮箱故障诊断方法。该方法利用基于多尺度线调频基稀疏信号分解提取各对传动齿轮的啮合频率,以各啮合频率为中心频率,对应转频的倍频为滤波带宽分别设计自适应时变滤波器对信号进行滤波,逐个提取振动信号中的啮合频率调制分量,再分别对提取的啮合频率调制分量单独进行阶比分析,有效地抑制其他无关联轴上齿轮啮合振动信号和其他非阶比噪声信号对阶比谱的影响,较好地解决阶比信号相互干扰的问题,提高阶比谱的调制识别效果,为多输入多输出齿轮箱系统和齿轮箱集群的故障诊断提供一条有效途径。仿真算例和应用实例说明方法的有效性。