Abstract
Gearbox is one of the important mechanical power transmission device most commonly used in automobiles and industries to get the desired change in speed and torque. The gearbox fault diagnosis has given utmost importance for its significance in preventing halts of a mechanical system and guaranteeing an advantage of sufficient maintenance. This paper presents the vibration analysis of heterogeneous gearbox faults using EMD features and SVM classifier. The vibration signal is converted into intrinsic mode functions (IMF) with decreasing order of frequencies using empirical mode decomposition (EMD) method. Feature vector consisting of information theoretic features have been computed for each IMF and concatenated to form a feature set. By using random permutations, the feature set has been divided into training and testing sets. The support vector machine (SVM) algorithm has been used as a classification technique to diagnose the gearbox faults, which consists of five-class classification. The accuracy of the developed algorithm has been validated using 100 Monte Carlo runs. A comparative study has been carried between computed features and varying IMF components. The observations made were - clear discrimination of the gearbox faults and improved classification accuracy, which contain - chipped tooth, missing tooth, root fault, surface fault and healthy working state of the gear.
Highlights
Gearbox is a rotary complex system, which aims at effective mechanical power transmission in terms of speed and torque
This paper presents a comparative study of vibration analysis of heterogeneous gearbox faults using Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) features and support vector machine (SVM) classifier
FC3 is equal to FC2 minus kurtosis feature showing the highest classification accuracy of 99.03% at k=3, which is considered as achieved maximum successful classification accuracy
Summary
Gearbox is a rotary complex system, which aims at effective mechanical power transmission in terms of speed and torque. It consists of different gear mechanisms embedded together to achieve desired mechanical benefits. As it is such a complex mechanical system, it is common to experience different faults associated with gear. Vibration analysis is the most widely used method, as the measured signal consists of information regarding the cause of vibration and characteristic vibrations of rotating components [1]. The vibrations measured from the gearbox are complicated that contain composite signal information, which needs to be analysed through different fault diagnosis methods to state the condition of the gearbox. The ideology of dividing the original signal into local windows,
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