A Novel Fault Diagnosis Model for Bearing of Railway Vehicles Using Vibration Signals Based on Symmetric Alpha-Stable Distribution Feature Extraction

Axle box bearings are the most critical mechanical components of railway vehicles. Condition monitoring is of great benefit to ensure the healthy status of bearings in the railway train. In this paper, a novel fault diagnosis model for axle box bearing based on symmetric alpha-stable distribution fe...

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Main Authors: Yongjian Li, Weihua Zhang, Qing Xiong, Tianwei Lu, Guiming Mei
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2016-01-01
Series:Shock and Vibration
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5714195
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description Axle box bearings are the most critical mechanical components of railway vehicles. Condition monitoring is of great benefit to ensure the healthy status of bearings in the railway train. In this paper, a novel fault diagnosis model for axle box bearing based on symmetric alpha-stable distribution feature extraction and least squares support vector machines (LS-SVM) using vibration signals is proposed which is conducted in three main steps. Firstly, fast nonlocal means is used for denoising and ensemble empirical mode decomposition is applied to extract fault feature information. Then a new statistical method of feature extraction, symmetric alpha-stable distribution, is employed to obtain representative features from intrinsic mode functions. Additionally, the hybrid fault feature sets are input into LS-SVM to identify the fault type. To enhance the performance of LS-SVM in the case of small-scale samples, Morlet wavelet kernel function is combined with LS-SVM for the classification of fault type and fault severity and the particle swarm optimization is used for the optimization of LS-WSVM parameters. Finally, the experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach performs more effectively and robustly than the other methods in small-scale samples for fault detection and classification of railway vehicle bearings.
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spelling doaj-art-bcadc09c18db4a8488c879c0a1d49f1c2025-08-20T02:18:50ZengWileyShock and Vibration1070-96221875-92032016-01-01201610.1155/2016/57141955714195A Novel Fault Diagnosis Model for Bearing of Railway Vehicles Using Vibration Signals Based on Symmetric Alpha-Stable Distribution Feature ExtractionYongjian Li0Weihua Zhang1Qing Xiong2Tianwei Lu3Guiming Mei4State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Traction Power, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, ChinaSchool of Automobile & Transportation, Xihua University, Chengdu 610039, ChinaSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Traction Power, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, ChinaAxle box bearings are the most critical mechanical components of railway vehicles. Condition monitoring is of great benefit to ensure the healthy status of bearings in the railway train. In this paper, a novel fault diagnosis model for axle box bearing based on symmetric alpha-stable distribution feature extraction and least squares support vector machines (LS-SVM) using vibration signals is proposed which is conducted in three main steps. Firstly, fast nonlocal means is used for denoising and ensemble empirical mode decomposition is applied to extract fault feature information. Then a new statistical method of feature extraction, symmetric alpha-stable distribution, is employed to obtain representative features from intrinsic mode functions. Additionally, the hybrid fault feature sets are input into LS-SVM to identify the fault type. To enhance the performance of LS-SVM in the case of small-scale samples, Morlet wavelet kernel function is combined with LS-SVM for the classification of fault type and fault severity and the particle swarm optimization is used for the optimization of LS-WSVM parameters. Finally, the experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach performs more effectively and robustly than the other methods in small-scale samples for fault detection and classification of railway vehicle bearings.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5714195
spellingShingle Yongjian Li
Weihua Zhang
Qing Xiong
Tianwei Lu
Guiming Mei
A Novel Fault Diagnosis Model for Bearing of Railway Vehicles Using Vibration Signals Based on Symmetric Alpha-Stable Distribution Feature Extraction
Shock and Vibration
title A Novel Fault Diagnosis Model for Bearing of Railway Vehicles Using Vibration Signals Based on Symmetric Alpha-Stable Distribution Feature Extraction
title_full A Novel Fault Diagnosis Model for Bearing of Railway Vehicles Using Vibration Signals Based on Symmetric Alpha-Stable Distribution Feature Extraction
title_fullStr A Novel Fault Diagnosis Model for Bearing of Railway Vehicles Using Vibration Signals Based on Symmetric Alpha-Stable Distribution Feature Extraction
title_full_unstemmed A Novel Fault Diagnosis Model for Bearing of Railway Vehicles Using Vibration Signals Based on Symmetric Alpha-Stable Distribution Feature Extraction
title_short A Novel Fault Diagnosis Model for Bearing of Railway Vehicles Using Vibration Signals Based on Symmetric Alpha-Stable Distribution Feature Extraction
title_sort novel fault diagnosis model for bearing of railway vehicles using vibration signals based on symmetric alpha stable distribution feature extraction
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5714195
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