Rolling Bearings Fault Diagnosis Based on Improved Complete Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition with Adaptive Noise, Nonlinear Entropy, and Ensemble SVM

• Main Authors: Rui Li, Chao Ran, Bin Zhang, Leng Han, Song Feng
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020-08-01
• Series: Applied Sciences
• Subjects: fault diagnosis; rolling bearing; nonlinear entropy; improved complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition with adaptive noise; ensemble SVM; rotating machines
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/16/5542

Rolling bearings are fundamental elements that play a crucial role in the functioning of rotating machines; thus, fault diagnosis of rolling bearings is of great significance to reduce catastrophic failures and heavy economic loss. However, the vibration signals of rolling bearings are often nonlinear and nonstationary, resulting in difficulty for feature extraction and fault recognition. In this paper, a hybrid method for multiple fault diagnosis of rolling bearings is presented. The bearing vibration signals are decomposed with the improved complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition with adaptive noise (ICEEMDAN) to denoise and extract nonlinear entropy features. The nonlinear entropy features are further processed to select the more discriminative fault features and to reduce feature dimension. Then a multi-class intelligent recognition model based on ensemble support vector machine (ESVM) is constructed to diagnose different bearing fault modes as well as fault severities. The effectiveness of the proposed method is assessed via experimental case studies of rolling bearings under multiple operational conditions (i.e., speeds and loads). The results show that our method gives better diagnosis results as compared to some existing approaches.