Rolling Bearing Fault Diagnosis Based on Wavelet Packet and Improved BP Neural Network for Wind Turbines

Abstract

Vibration signal was a carrier of fault features of the wind turbine transmission system, it can reflect most of the fault information of the wind turbine transmission system. According to the frequency domain features of the roller bearing fault, wavelet packet transform for feature extraction was proposed as the characteristics of wind turbines in the presence of a large number of transient and non-stationary signals. The characteristics of wavelet packet was analyzed, combined with the wind turbines in the rolling bearing fault characteristic vibration extraction methods, the rolling bearing fault diagnosis was realized through the wavelet packet decomposition and reconstruction, the procedure was given. The simulation result shows that this application can reflect relationship of the failure characteristics and frequency domain feature vectors, also the nonlinear mapping ability of neural networks was played and the fault diagnosis capability enhanced.