Rolling Bearing Fault Diagnosis Based on Wavelet Packet Decomposition and Multi-Scale Permutation Entropy

Author： Zhao Li-Ye Wang Lei Yan Ru-Qiang

Publisher： MDPI

E-ISSN： 1099-4300|17|9|6447-6461

ISSN： 1099-4300

Source： Entropy, Vol.17, Iss.9, 2015-09, pp. : 6447-6461

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Abstract

This paper presents a rolling bearing fault diagnosis approach by integrating wavelet packet decomposition (WPD) with multi-scale permutation entropy (MPE). The approach uses MPE values of the sub-frequency band signals to identify faults appearing in rolling bearings. Specifically, vibration signals measured from a rolling bearing test system with different defect conditions are decomposed into a set of sub-frequency band signals by means of the WPD method. Then, each sub-frequency band signal is divided into a series of subsequences, and MPEs of all subsequences in corresponding sub-frequency band signal are calculated. After that, the average MPE value of all subsequences about each sub-frequency band is calculated, and is considered as the fault feature of the corresponding sub-frequency band. Subsequently, MPE values of all sub-frequency bands are considered as input feature vectors, and the hidden Markov model (HMM) is used to identify the fault pattern of the rolling bearing. Experimental study on a data set from the Case Western Reserve University bearing data center has shown that the presented approach can accurately identify faults in rolling bearings.