The Analysis of Gearbox Fault Diagnosis Research Based on the EMD and Hilbert Envelope Demodulation

Abstract

This paper puts forward a kind of gearbox fault diagnosis methods which based on empirical mode decomposition (EMD), Hilbert transform, Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and spectrum refined techniques. This method is applicable to the analysis of the nonlinear unsteady signal. First of all used wavelet denoising to the acquisition of gearbox vibrate signal, again carries on the empirical mode decomposition (EMD), than get a certain number of intrinsic mode function (imf); Choose the specific imf, based on kurtosis value, after the Hilbert transform and Fast Fourier Transform is done, the corresponding power spectrum can be obtained; To refine the power spectrum and extract the gearbox fault characteristic frequency; Then in pattern recognition and diagnosis of the gearbox fault, and compared with the normal signal characteristics. The analysis results show that the proposed method can effectively detect the gearbox fault characteristics.