A Novel Method for Fault Diagnosis of Rotating Machinery

When rotating machinery fails, the consequent vibration signal contains rich fault feature information. However, the vibration signal bears the characteristics of nonlinearity and nonstationarity, and is easily disturbed by noise, thus it may be difficult to accurately extract hidden fault features. To extract effective fault features from the collected vibration signals and improve the diagnostic accuracy of weak faults, a novel method for fault diagnosis of rotating machinery is proposed. The new method is based on Fast Iterative Filtering (FIF) and Parameter Adaptive Refined Composite Multiscale Fluctuation-based Dispersion Entropy (PARCMFDE). Firstly, the collected original vibration signal is decomposed by FIF to obtain a series of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs), and the IMFs with a large correlation coefficient are selected for reconstruction. Then, a PARCMFDE is proposed for fault feature extraction, where its embedding dimension and class number are determined by Genetic Algorithm (GA). Finally, the extracted fault features are input into Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) to classify different states of rotating machinery. The experimental results show that the proposed method can accurately extract weak fault features and realize reliable fault diagnosis of rotating machinery.