A novel bearing multi-fault diagnosis approach based on weighted permutation entropy and an improved SVM ensemble classifier

Shenghan Zhou, Silin Qian, Wenbing Chang, Yiyong Xiao, Cheng Yang

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Abstract

Timely and accurate state detection and fault diagnosis of rolling element bearings are very critical to ensuring the reliability of rotating machinery. This paper proposes a novel method of rolling bearing fault diagnosis based on a combination of ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD), weighted permutation entropy (WPE) and an improved support vector machine (SVM) ensemble classifier. A hybrid voting (HV) strategy that combines SVM-based classifiers and cloud similarity measurement (CSM) was employed to improve the classification accuracy. First, the WPE value of the bearing vibration signal was calculated to detect the fault. Secondly, if a bearing fault occurred, the vibration signal was decomposed into a set of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) by EEMD. The WPE values of the first several IMFs were calculated to form the fault feature vectors. Then, the SVM ensemble classifier was composed of binary SVM and the HV strategy to identify the bearing multi-fault types. Finally, the proposed model was fully evaluated by experiments and comparative studies. The results demonstrate that the proposed method can effectively detect bearing faults and maintain a high accuracy rate of fault recognition when a small number of training samples are available.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1934
JournalSensors
Volume18
Issue number6
Number of pages23
ISSN1424-8220
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 14 Jun 2018

Keywords

  • Fault diagnosis
  • Hybrid voting strategy
  • Rolling bearing
  • SVM ensemble classifier
  • WPE

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