Abstract
Purpose
For purpose of automatically diagnosing gear faults, intelligent fault diagnosis methods have been paid increasing attentions by researchers.
Methodology
This paper presents an intelligent fault diagnosis method based on an unsupervised learning algorithm called sparse filtering. First, sparse filtering is employed to extract fault features from gear frequency-domain samples. Then, softmax regression is adopted as a classifier to classify different fault types by the learned features. Finally, two different gear datasets are adopted to testify the validity and feasibility of our method.
Conclusion
The test results appear that our method can not only adaptively extract discriminative characteristics from the spectra of measured signals, but also achieve a superior performance than some other methods.
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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (51675262), Funding of Jiangsu Innovation Program for Graduate Education (KYLX16_0329), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (NZ2015103), the Advance research field fund project of China (6140210020102), the Project of National Key Research and Development Plan of China (2016YFD0700800), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(NP2018304) and the Major National Science and Technology Projects (2017-IV-0008-0045).
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Wang, J., Li, S., Xin, Y. et al. Gear Fault Intelligent Diagnosis Based on Frequency-Domain Feature Extraction. J. Vib. Eng. Technol. 7, 159–166 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42417-019-00089-1
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