Fault diagnosis of wind turbine bearing based on variational mode decomposition and Teager energy operator

Vibration signal of wind turbine has the non-linear and non-stationary characteristic, thus it is difficult to extract the fault feature. In this study, a novel method based on variational mode decomposition (VMD) and Teager energy operator (TEO) is proposed to diagnose the bearing faults of wind turbine. First, vibration signal is decomposed into several intrinsic mode function (IMF) components by means of VMD, which is a recently proposed signal decomposition method. Then, the most sensitive IMF component is selected according to kurtosis criterion. Moreover, TEO is applied to the most sensitive IMF in order to highlight impact signal. Finally, spectrum is obtained by applying Fourier transform to Teager energy of the selected IMF, thus extracting the fault feature to diagnose bearing fault. The effectiveness of the proposed method for fault diagnosis is validated by simulation and experimental signal analysis results, and comparison studies show its advantage over empirical mode decomposition and conventional spectrum analysis for wind turbine bearing fault diagnosis.

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