Bearing Fault Detection Based on SVD and EMD

While bearing fault signals are strongly interferenced by noise, diagnosis using EMD directly for bearings fault becomes incorrect. A scheme based on Singular Value Decomposition(SVD) and Empirical Mode Decomposition(EMD) is proposed for solving this problem. Aiming at bearing fault signal characteristics, SVD preprocesses sampled signals to denoise. Then preprocessed signals are analyzed by EMD. Fault characteristic frequency can be obtained by spectrum analysis for Intrinsic Mode Functions(IMFs). This method is useful to detect fault of bearings and a comparison is made between it and EMD. The results show that this scheme can diagnose fault correctly under strong noise.