Machinery fault diagnosis via an improved multi-linear subspace and locally linear embedding

Abstract

Traditional fault diagnosis methods mainly depend on the vector model to describe a signal, which will lead to information loss and the curse of dimensionality. In order to overcome these problems, in this paper an improved multi-linear subspace (MLS) method and locally linear embedding (LLE) are integrated (MLSLLE) to extract significant features. To obtain more information, first it is suggested that multiple sensors should be used to sample the vibration signal of a machine from different positions; then, these data are projected into different subspaces, where each sample is represented as a tensor form, respectively; finally, higher-order singular value decomposition and LLE are introduced to extract significant features. Thus a fault diagnosis method is proposed based on MLSLLE and support vector machines. The advantages of the proposed fault diagnosis method are validated by two real bearing data sets.