A Fault Diagnosis Method for Out-of-Round Faults of Metro Vehicle Wheels with Strong Noise

Abstract

Detection of out-of round (OOR) faults of metro vehicle wheels is very important to improve stationarity and stability in metro vehicles and avoid accidents caused by OOR faults. Diagnosis of OOR faults demands extracting useful information accurately from mass of vibration signals with poor signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of metro vehicle wheels for complex running condition. In this paper, we proposed a diagnosis method on OOR faults of metro vehicle wheels combined with variational mode decomposition (VMD), kernel principal component analysis (KPCA), and deep belief network (DBN) to diagnose the OOR faults of metro wheels. Vibration signals of China metro vehicle wheels collected while the metro vehicle is running are used to train the diagnosis model and adjust parameters of DBN and KPCA based on testing accuracy. The different dimensions of KPCA, epoch number, and node number of DBN are compared, and the better parameters of diagnosis model based on vibration signals are concluded in this paper. The generalization of the diagnosis model is checked nine times by testing the calculation of each group of parameters and using an error declining process. The mean accuracy of diagnosis model proposed in this paper is 0.9136, and the diagnosis model presented in this paper is very significant to detect OOR faults online.