Jixie chuandong (Jan 2023)

Research on Gearbox Impact Feature Extraction Method Based on the Improved ESMD and Dynamics Model

  • Gu Sheng,
  • Bie Fengfeng,
  • Miao Xinting,
  • Zhao Wei,
  • Guo Yue

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 47
pp. 155 – 162

Abstract

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The gearbox vibration signal contains nonlinear impact characteristics, and the significant feature information tends to be overwhelmed with other interference components. Aiming at the key issue of how to effectively extract its impact characteristics, a fault diagnosis method based on an improved extreme symmetric mode decomposition (ESMD) and support vector machine (SVM) as well as a dynamics model of spur bevel gear for investigating typically gearbox fault mechanism is proposed. In this method, the vibration signal is adaptively decomposed into multiple IMF components by the improved ESMD, and then a certain number of components are selected with the maximum kurtosis-envelope spectrum index. Meanwhile, the singular values of each selected IMF are extracted to construct the feature vector set, which is input into the SVM for the fault pattern recognition finally. Dynamic simulation and gearbox experimental research show that the improved ESMD-SVM method can extract and identify gearbox fault information effectively.

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