A Novel Fault Feature Extraction Method for Bearing Rolling Elements Using Optimized Signal Processing Method

A rolling element signal has a long transmission path in the acquisition process. The fault feature of the rolling element signal is more difficult to be extracted. Therefore, a novel weak fault feature extraction method using optimized variational mode decomposition with kurtosis mean (KMVMD) and maximum correlated kurtosis deconvolution based on power spectrum entropy and grid search (PGMCKD), namely KMVMD-PGMCKD, is proposed. In the proposed KMVMD-PGMCKD method, a VMD with kurtosis mean (KMVMD) is proposed. Then an adaptive parameter selection method based on power spectrum entropy and grid search for MCKD, namely PGMCKD, is proposed to determine the deconvolution period T and filter order L. The complementary advantages of the KMVMD and PGMCKD are integrated to construct a novel weak fault feature extraction model (KMVMD-PGMCKD). Finally, the power spectrum is employed to deal with the obtained signal by KMVMD-PGMCKD to effectively implement feature extraction. Bearing rolling element signals of Case Western Reserve University and actual rolling element data are selected to prove the validity of the KMVMD-PGMCKD. The experiment results show that the KMVMD-PGMCKD can effectively extract the fault features of bearing rolling elements and accurately diagnose weak faults under variable working conditions.