Quantitative diagnosis for bearing faults by improving ensemble empirical mode decomposition.

In the bearing health assessment issues, using the adaptive nonstationary vibration signal processing methods in the time-frequency domain, lead to improving of early fault detection. On the other hand, the noise and random impulses which contaminates the input data, are a major challenge in extracting fault-related features. The main goal of this paper is to improve the Ensemble Empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) algorithm and combine it with a new proposed denoising process and the higher order spectra to increase the accuracy and speed of the fault severity and type detection. The main approach is to use statistical features without using any dimension reduction and data training. To eliminate unrelated components from faulty condition, the best combination of denoising parameters based on the wavelet transform, is determined by a proposed performance index. In order to enhance the efficiency of the EEMD algorithm, a systematic method is presented to determine the proper amplitude of the additive noise and the Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs) selection scheme. The fault occurrence detection and the fault severity level identification are performed by the Fault Severity Index (FSI) definition based on the energy level of the Combined Fault-Sensitive IMF (CFSIMF) envelope using the central limit theorem. Also, taking the advantages of a bispectrum analysis of CFSIMF envelope, fault type recognition can be achieved by Fault Type Index (FTI) quantification. Finally, the proposed method is validated using experimental data set from two different test rigs. Also, the role of the optimum denoising process and the algorithm of systematic selection of the EEMD parameters are described regardless of its type and estimating the consistent degradation pattern.

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