Combination of principal component analysis and time-frequency representations of multichannel vibration data for gearbox fault detection

A multichannel vibration data processing method in the context of local damage detection in gearboxes is presented in this paper. The purpose of the approach is to achieve more reliable information about local damage by using several channels in comparison to results obtained by single channel vibration analysis. The method is a combination of time-frequency representation and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) applied not to the raw time series but to each slice (along the time) from its spectrogram. Finally, we create a new time-frequency map which aggregated clearly indicates presence of the damage. Details and properties of this procedure are described in this paper, along with comparison to single-channel results. We refer to autocorrelation function of the new aggregated time frequency map (1D signal) or simple spectrum (that might be somehow linked to classical envelope analysis). The results are very convincing – cyclic impulses associated with local damage might be clearly detected. In order to validate our method, we used a model of vibration data from heavy duty gearbox exploited in mining industry.

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