Wavelet denoising is an effective approach to extract fault features from strong background noise.It has been widely used in mechanical fault detection and shown excellent performance.However,traditional thresholds are not suitable for nonstationary signal denoising because they set universal thresholds for different wavelet coefficients.Therefore,a data-driven threshold strategy is proposed in this paper.First,the signal is decomposed into different subbands by wavelet transformation.Then a data-driven threshold is derived by estimating the noise power spectral density in different subbands.Since the data-driven threshold is dependent on the noise estimation and adapted to data,it is more robust and accurate for denoising than traditional thresholds.Meanwhile,sliding window method is adopted to set a flexible local threshold.When this method was applied to simulation signal and an inner race fault diagnostic case of dedusting fan bearing,the proposed method has good result and provides valuable advantages over traditional methods in the fault detection of rotating machines.
Vibration signal is an important prerequisite for mechanical fault detection. However, early stage defect of rotating machiner- ies is difficult to identify because their incipient energy is interfered with background noises. Multiwavelet is a powerful tool used to conduct non-stationary fault feature extraction. However, the existing predetermined multiwavelet bases are independ- ent of the dynamic response signals. In this paper, a constructing technique of vibration data-driven maximal-overlap adaptive multiwavelet （MOAMW） is proposed for enhancing the extracting performance of fault symptom. It is able to derive an opti- mal multiwavelet basis that best matches the critical non-stationary and transient fault signatures via genetic algorithm. In this technique, two-scale similarity transform （TST） and symmetric lifting （SymLift） scheme are combined to gain high designing freedom for matching the critical faulty vibration contents in vibration signals based on the maximal fitness objective. TST and SymLift can add modifications to the initial multiwavelet by changing the approximation order and vanishing moment of mul- tiwavelet, respectively. Moreover, the beneficial feature of the MOAWM lies in that the maximal-overlap filterbank structure can enhance the periodic and transient characteristics of the sensor signals and preserve the time and frequency analyzing res- olution during the decomposition process. The effectiveness of the proposed technique is validated via a numerical simulation as well as a rolling element beating with an outer race scrape and a gearbox with rub fault.
HE ShuiLongZI YanYangZHAO ChenLuCHEN BinQiangWANG XiaoDongHE ZhengJia
