Fault diagnosis of rolling element bearing with intrinsic mode function of acoustic emission data using APF-KNN

This paper presents a fault diagnosis technique based on acoustic emission (AE) analysis with the Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT) and data mining tool. HHT analyzes the AE signal using intrinsic mode functions (IMFs), which are extracted using the process of Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD). Instead of time domain approach with Hilbert transform, FFT of IMFs from HHT process are utilized to represent the time frequency domain approach for efficient signal response from rolling element bearing. Further, extracted statistical and acoustic features are used to select proper data mining based fault classifier with or without filter. K-nearest neighbor algorithm is observed to be more efficient classifier with default setting parameters in WEKA. APF-KNN approach, which is based on asymmetric proximity function with optimize feature selection shows better classification accuracy is used. Experimental evaluation for time frequency approach is presented for five bearing conditions such as healthy bearing, bearing with outer race, inner race, ball and combined defect. The experimental results show that the proposed method can increase reliability for the faults diagnosis of ball bearing. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.