A Bearing Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Wavelet Denoising and Machine Learning

Abstract

There are a lot of interference factors in the operating environment of machinery, which makes it ineffective to use traditional detection methods to judge the fault location and type of fault of the machinery, and even misjudgment of the fault location and type may occur. In order to solve these problems, this paper proposes a bearing fault diagnosis method based on wavelet denoising and machine learning. We use sensors to detect the operating conditions of rolling bearings under different working conditions to obtain datasets of different types of bearing failures. On the basis of using the wavelet denoising algorithm to reduce noise, we comprehensively evaluated five machine learning models, including K-means clustering, decision tree, random forest, and support vector machine to classify bearing faults and compare their results. By designing the fault classification evaluation prediction criteria, the following conclusions are drawn. The model proposed in this paper is significantly better than other traditional diagnostic models for bearing faults. In order to solve the problem of weak signal strength and background noise interference, this paper selects a better noise reduction algorithm under different quantitative evaluation indicators for wavelet denoising, which can better restore the true characteristics of the fault signal. Using unsupervised learning and supervised machine learning classification algorithms, the evaluation indicators before and after denoising are compared to make the classification results more accurate and reliable. This article will help researchers to intelligently diagnose the faults of rolling bearing equipment in rotating machinery.

Keywords

• fault detection
• wavelet denoising
• K-means clustering
• decision trees
• random forests
• support vector machines