Research of Planetary Gear Fault Diagnosis Based on Multi-Scale Fractal Box Dimension of CEEMD and ELM

Abstract

The planetary gear is the most critical part of a drive transmission system, and its faults will affect the reliability of the equipment, and even cause accidents. Therefore, it is of great significance to study the fault diagnosis of the planetary gear. A method of planetary gear fault diagnosis based on the multi-scale fractal box dimension of complementary ensemble empirical mode decomposition (CEEMD) and extreme learning machine (ELM) is proposed. The original vibration signal is decomposed by CEEMD, and a series of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) are obtained. Some effective IMFs are extracted, and their reconstructed signal associated with the feature information is obtained. The reconstructed signal is analysed with multi-scale analysis, and the fault feature information contained in the signals with different scales is quantified and extracted via a fractal box dimension. The status recognition of planetary gear is achieved by combining ELM. The experiments show that the proposed method is effective at diagnosing planetary gear faults.