Rolling element bearing weak feature extraction based on improved optimal frequency band determination. (January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yang, Rui; Li, Hongkun; Wang, Chaoge; He, Changbo
• Is Part Of: Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Volume 233:Number 2(2019)
• Page Start: 623
• Page End: 634
• Publication Date: 2019-01
• Subjects: Parameter optimization -- improved correlation Kurtosis -- optimal frequency band extraction -- rolling bearing fault diagnosis -- weak feature extraction; Mechanical engineering -- Periodicals; 621.05
• DOI: 10.1177/0954406218761487
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0954-4062

Abstract

Conventional Kurtosis method represents the statistical property of signal in the time domain. Correlated Kurtosis is proposed that combines the correlation coefficient and Kurtosis in order to indicate the periodicity and impact of signal. In this study, correlated Kurtosis is introduced into frequency domain to improve the recognition accuracy of the optimal frequency band. It does not perform well under the lower signal-to-noise ratio. And then, maximum correlation Kurtosis de-convolution method is used for extracting the approximate impact signal before selecting the optimal frequency band. However, it is limited in diagnosing rolling element bearing fault in the case of the algorithm iteration period is unknown. In addition, filter length also affects the filtering results. To eliminate the confusion, correlated Kurtosis of the frequency domain is applied to iteration period calculation. In this research, a new index is also proposed based on entropy and correlated Kurtosis to optimize the filter length. Then, the full bandwidth of filtered signal is partitioned into several sub-bands according to the refined wavelet packet binary tree. The correlated Kurtosis for each sub-band is calculated. The optimal sub-band for which the correlated Kurtosis is maximal is extracted to analysis. In the end, the efficiency of the new index and the fault diagnosis method are verified by using simulation data and experimental data.