Successive variational mode decomposition and blind source separation based on salp swarm optimization for bearing fault diagnosis

[摘要] In this paper, we are interested in developing a new approach that combines successive variational mode decomposition and blind source separation based on salp swarm optimization for bearing fault diagnosis. Firstly, vibration signals are pre-processed using successive variational mode decomposition to increase the signal-to-noise ratio. Then, the dynamic time-warping algorithm is adopted to select the most effective modes which will be considered mixture signals. In the second step, we apply the salp swarm algorithm (SSA) for estimating the de-mixing matrix to extract independent components from mixture signals. However, SSA suffers from the problem of population diversity. Consequently, it offers somewhat different independent sources at every execution of the program. To overcome this shortcoming, the SSA-based source estimation will be executed several times with different ranges of initial positions. Then, a fuzzy C-mean algorithm is introduced to select the reliable independent components. The suggested method is tested based on two experiments and compared to state-of-the-art methods. The obtained results demonstrate the effectiveness of the suggested method in recovering reliable independent components and extracting the fault frequency of bearings.

[效力级别]  Early Access

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