Stepwise Intelligent Diagnosis Method for Rotor System with Sliding Bearing Based on Statistical Filter and Stacked Auto-Encoder

Abstract

Since the raw signal collected from the sliding bearing is contaminated with background noise, and it is difficult to obtain high-precision results for the traditional methods due to the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Therefore, a stepwise intelligent diagnosis method based on statistical filter and stacked auto-encoder (SAE) that is established with several auto-encoders is proposed to identify several faults of sliding bearing in a rotor system. Firstly, the statistical filter is utilized to reduce the interference information for the different abnormal states and to increase the SNR. Secondly, the stepwise intelligent diagnosis based on SAE is performed to learn the useful fault features, and it can automatically complete the fault diagnosis which is contributed with the superiority binary classification to fully mine the relationship between the fault characteristics and the health condition of bearing. Finally, the diagnosis of the oil whirl and structural faults in a rotor system is cited as an example to demonstrate the effectiveness of proposed method. It can effectively illustrate the advantages of the stepwise diagnosis method to obtain the maximum diagnostic accuracy.