A New Method of Wind Turbine Bearing Fault Diagnosis Based on Multi-Masking Empirical Mode Decomposition and Fuzzy C-Means Clustering

Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering

Wanlu Jiang¹  Shuqing Zhang¹  Anqi Jiang¹  Junfeng Li¹  Liguo Zhang¹  Yongtao Hu² 

[1]0000 0000 8954 0417, grid.413012.5, Institute of Electric Engineering, Yanshan University, 066004, Qinhuangdao, China

[2]0000 0000 8954 0417, grid.413012.5, Institute of Electric Engineering, Yanshan University, 066004, Qinhuangdao, China

[3]grid.503012.5, School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Henan Institute of Technology, 453003, Xinxiang, China

关键词: Wind turbine bearing faults diagnosis;    Multi-masking empirical mode decomposition (MMEMD);    Fuzzy c-mean (FCM) clustering;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s10033-019-0356-4

来源: publisher

【 摘 要 】

Based on Multi-Masking Empirical Mode Decomposition (MMEMD) and fuzzy c-means (FCM) clustering, a new method of wind turbine bearing fault diagnosis FCM-MMEMD is proposed, which can determine the fault accurately and timely. First, FCM clustering is employed to classify the data into different clusters, which helps to estimate whether there is a fault and how many fault types there are. If fault signals exist, the fault vibration signals are then demodulated and decomposed into different frequency bands by MMEMD in order to be analyzed further. In order to overcome the mode mixing defect of empirical mode decomposition (EMD), a novel method called MMEMD is proposed. It is an improvement to masking empirical mode decomposition (MEMD). By adding multi-masking signals to the signals to be decomposed in different levels, it can restrain low-frequency components from mixing in high-frequency components effectively in the sifting process and then suppress the mode mixing. It has the advantages of easy implementation and strong ability of suppressing modal mixing. The fault type is determined by Hilbert envelope finally. The results of simulation signal decomposition showed the high performance of MMEMD. Experiments of bearing fault diagnosis in wind turbine bearing fault diagnosis proved the validity and high accuracy of the new method.

【 授权许可】

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