In this paper, a fault identification method combining adaptive local iterative filtering and permutation entropy is proposed. The adaptive local iterative filtering can decompose the nonstationary signal into a finite number of stationary intrinsic mode functions. And the experiment gear fault data are decomposed into several intrinsic mode functions by this method. Then, using the permutation entropy to calculate each intrinsic mode function, it is found that the permutation entropy of the first several intrinsic mode functions can represent the characteristics of different fault types, and the permutation entropy of the intrinsic mode function corresponding to the rotating frequency signal of the gear system could be the boundary. Finally, the fault type of gear is identified by calculating the gray correlation degree of permutation entropy of essential mode function of vibration signal decomposition under different working conditions. The example analysis results show that the proposed method can be effectively applied to the fault diagnosis of the gear system.
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