Efficient fault diagnosis of electrical and mechanical anomalies in induction motors (IMs) is challenging but necessary to ensure safety and economical operation in industries. Research has shown that bearing faults are the most frequently occurring faults in IMs. The vibration signals carry rich information about bearing health conditions and are commonly utilized for fault diagnosis in bearings. However, collecting these signals is expensive and sometimes impractical because it requires the use of external sensors. The external sensors demand enough space and are difficult to install in inaccessible sites. To overcome these disadvantages, motor current signal-based bearing fault diagnosis methods offer an attractive solution. As such, this paper proposes a hybrid motor-current data-driven approach that utilizes statistical features, genetic algorithm (GA) and machine learning models for bearing fault diagnosis. First, the statistical features are extracted from the motor current signals. Second, the GA is utilized to reduce the number of features and select the most important ones from the feature database. Finally, three different classification algorithms namely KNN, decision tree, and random forest, are trained and tested using these features in order to evaluate the bearing faults. This combination of techniques increases the accuracy and reduces the computational complexity. The experimental results show that the three classifiers achieve an accuracy of more than 97%. In addition, the evaluation parameters such as precision, F1-score, sensitivity, and specificity show better performance. Finally, to validate the efficiency of the proposed model, it is compared with some recently adopted techniques. The comparison results demonstrate that the suggested technique is promising for diagnosis of IM bearing faults.
The vibration signals of gearbox gear fault signatures are informative components that can be used for gearbox fault diagnosis and early fault detection. However, the vibration signals are normally non-linear and non-stationary, and they contain background noise caused by data acquisition systems and the interference of other machine elements. Especially in conditions with varying rotational speeds, the informative components are blended with complex, unwanted components inside the vibration signal. Thus, to use the informative components from a vibration signal for gearbox fault diagnosis, the noise needs to be properly distilled from the informational signal as much as possible before analysis. This paper proposes a novel gearbox fault diagnosis method based on an adaptive noise reducer–based Gaussian reference signal (ANR-GRS) technique that can significantly reduce noise and improve classification from a one-against-one, multiclass support vector machine (OAOMCSVM) for the fault types of a gearbox. The ANR-GRS processes the shaft rotation speed to access and remove noise components in the narrowbands between two consecutive sideband frequencies along the frequency spectrum of a vibration signal, enabling the removal of enormous noise components with minimal distortion to the informative signal. The optimal output signal from the ANR-GRS is then extracted into many signal feature vectors to generate a qualified classification dataset. Finally, the OAOMCSVM classifies the health states of an experimental gearbox using the dataset of extracted features. The signal processing and classification paths are generated using the experimental testbed. The results indicate that the proposed method is reliable for fault diagnosis in a varying rotational speed gearbox system.
Rotating machines represent a class of nonlinear, uncertain, and multiple-degrees-of-freedom systems that are used in various applications. The complexity of the system’s dynamic behavior and uncertainty result in substantial challenges for fault estimation, detection, and identification in rotating machines. To address the aforementioned challenges, this paper proposes a novel technique for fault diagnosis of a rolling-element bearing (REB), founded on a machine-learning-based advanced fuzzy sliding mode observer. First, an ARX-Laguerre algorithm is presented to model the bearing in the presence of noise and uncertainty. In addition, a fuzzy algorithm is applied to the ARX-Laguerre technique to increase the system’s modeling accuracy. Next, the conventional sliding mode observer is applied to resolve the problems of fault estimation in a complex system with a high degree of uncertainty, such as rotating machinery. To address the problem of chattering that is inherent in the conventional sliding mode observer, the higher-order super-twisting (advanced) technique is introduced in this study. In addition, the fuzzy method is applied to the advanced sliding mode observer to improve the accuracy of fault estimation in uncertain conditions. As a result, the advanced fuzzy sliding mode observer adaptively improves the reliability, robustness, and estimation accuracy of rolling-element bearing fault estimation. Then, the residual signal delivered by the proposed methodology is split in the windows and each window is characterized by a numerical parameter. Finally, a machine learning technique, called a decision tree, adaptively derives the threshold values that are used for problems of fault detection and fault identification in this study. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is validated using a publicly available vibration dataset of Case Western Reverse University. The experimental results show that the machine learning-based advanced fuzzy sliding mode observation methodology significantly improves the reliability and accuracy of the fault estimation, detection, and identification of rolling element bearing faults under variable crack sizes and load conditions.
The complex nature of rubbing faults makes it difficult to use traditional signal analysis methods for feature extraction. Various time-frequency analysis approaches based on signal decomposition, such as empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and ensemble EMD (EEMD), have been widely utilized recently to analyze rub-impact faults. However, traditional EMD suffers from “mode-mixing”, and in both EMD and EEMD the relevance of the extracted components to rubbing processes must be determined. In this paper, we introduce a new informative intrinsic mode function (IMF) selection method for EEMD and a hybrid feature model for diagnosing rub-impact faults of various intensities. Our method uses a novel selection procedure that combines the degree-of-presence ratio of rub impact and a Kullback–Leibler divergence-based similarity measure into an IMF quality metric with adaptive threshold-based selection to pick the meaningful signal-dominant modes. Signals reconstructed using the selected IMFs contained explicit information about the rubbing faults and are used for hybrid feature extraction. Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed approach effectively defines meaningful IMFs for rubbing processes, and the presented hybrid feature model allows for the classification of rub-impact faults of various intensities with good accuracy.
This paper proposes a Gaussian mixture model-based (GMM) bearing fault band selection (GMM-WBBS) method for signal processing. The proposed method benefits reliable feature extraction using fault frequency oriented Gaussian mixture model (GMM) window series. Selecting exclusively bearing fault frequency harmonics, it eliminates the interference of bearing normal vibrations in the lower frequencies, bearing natural frequencies, and the higher frequency contents that prove to be useful only for anomaly detection but do not provide any insight into the bearing fault location. The features are extracted from time- and frequency- domain signals that exclusively contain the bearing fault frequency harmonics. Classification is done using the Weighted KNN algorithm. The experiments performed with the data containing the vibrations recorded from artificially damaged bearings show the positive effect of utilizing the proposed GMM-WBBS signal processing to filter out the discriminative data of uncertain origin. All comparison methods retrofitted with the proposed method demonstrated classification performance improvements when provided with vibration data with suppressed bearing natural frequencies and higher frequency contents.
A robot manipulator is a multi-degree-of-freedom and nonlinear system that is used in various applications, including the medical area and automotive industries. Uncertain conditions in which a robot manipulator operates, as well as its nonlinearities, represent challenges for fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control (FDC) that are addressed through the proposed FDC technique. A machine-learning-based neural adaptive, high-order, variable structure observer for fault diagnosis (FD) and adaptive, modern, fuzzy, backstepping, variable structure control for use in a fault-tolerant control (FC) algorithm, are proposed in this paper. In the first stage, a variable structure observer is proposed as an FD technique for the robot manipulator. The chattering phenomenon associated with the variable structure observer(VSO) is solved using a high-order variable structure observer. Then, the dynamic behavior estimation performance in the high-order variable structure observer is improved by incorporating a neural network algorithm in the FD pipeline. This adaptive technique is also effective in improving the robustness of the fault signal estimation. Moreover, support vector machines (SVMs) that can derive adaptive threshold values are used to categorize faults. To design an effective fault-tolerant controller (FC), an adaptive modern fuzzy backstepping variable structure controller is used in this study. First, a new variable structure controller is designed. Next, to increase robustness and reduce high-frequency oscillations in uncertain conditions, a backstepping algorithm is used in parallel with the variable structure controller to design the backstepping variable structure controller. To design an effective hybrid controller, a fuzzy algorithm is integrated into the backstepping variable structure controller to create a fuzzy backstepping variable structure controller. Then, to improve the robustness and reliability of the FC, a neural adaptive. high-order. variable structure observer is applied to the fuzzy backstepping variable structure controller to design a modern fuzzy backstepping variable structure controller. An adaptive algorithm is used to fine-tune the variable structure coefficients and reduce the effect of faults on the robot manipulator. The effectiveness of the selected algorithm is validated using a PUMA robot manipulator. The neural adaptive. high-order variable structure observer improves the average performance for the identification of various faults by about 27% and 29.2%, compared with the neural high-order variable structure observer and variable structure observer, respectively.
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