Mean-optimized mode decomposition: An improved EMD approach for non-stationary signal processing
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1School of Mechanical Engineering, Anhui University of Technology, Ma'anshan, Anhui, 243032, China; School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia.
Abstract:
As an effective signal separation method of non-stationary signal, empirical mode decomposition (EMD) has been widely used in the data or time series analysis of many engineering fields. However, the decomposing result of EMD often is affected by the fitting in mean curve construction and the sifting process. In this paper, the mean-optimized mode decomposition (MOMD) procedure is proposed to enhance the performance of the original EMD in mean curve construction. Also, the proposed MOMD algorithm is compared with original EMD through analyzing two artificial signals and the analysis results demonstrate that MOMD has much more significantly improvement in decomposition performance and precision than the original EMD. Last, MOMD is introduced to the signal processing stemming from the faulty rolling bearing and the rotor system with failure. Also, the comparison of the proposed MOMD method with EMD was made and the analysis results show that MOMD obtains much more accurate IMFs and fault diagnostic effect than the original EMD method.
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