Online Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Nonlinear Spectral Analysis

The fault diagnosis based on nonlinear spectral analysis is a new technique for the nonlinear fault diagnosis, but its online application could be limited because of the enormous compution requirements for the estimation of general frequency response functions. Based on the fully decoupled Volterra identification algorithm, a new online fault diagnosis method based on nonlinear spectral analysis is presented, which can availably reduce the online compution requirements of general frequency response functions. The composition and working principle of the method are described, the test experiments have been done for damping spring of a vehicle suspension system by utilizing the new method, and the results indicate that the method is efficient.