Optimal Time Frequency Fusion Symmetric Dot Pattern Bearing Fault Feature Enhancement and Diagnosis

Regarding the difficulty of extracting the acquired fault signal features of bearings from a strong background noise vibration signal, coupled with the fact that one-dimensional (1D) signals provide limited fault information, an optimal time frequency fusion symmetric dot pattern (SDP) bearing fault feature enhancement and diagnosis method is proposed. Firstly, the vibration signals are transformed into two-dimensional (2D) features by the time frequency fusion algorithm SDP, which can multi-scale analyze the fluctuations of signals at minor scales, as well as enhance bearing fault features. Secondly, the bat algorithm is employed to optimize the SDP parameters adaptively. It can effectively improve the distinctions between various types of faults. Finally, the fault diagnosis model can be constructed by a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN). To validate the effectiveness of the proposed method, Case Western Reserve University's (CWRU) bearing fault dataset and bearing fault dataset laboratory experimental platform were used. The experimental results illustrate that the fault diagnosis accuracy of the proposed method is 100%, which proves the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method. By comparing with other 2D transformer methods, the experimental results illustrate that the proposed method achieves the highest accuracy in bearing fault diagnosis. It validated the superiority of the proposed methodology.