A hybrid fault diagnosis method based on singular value difference spectrum denoising and local mean decomposition for rolling bearing

Rolling bearing is one of the most crucial components in rotating machinery and due to their critical role, it is of great importance to monitor their operation conditions. However, due to the background noise in acquired signals, it is not always possible to identify probable faults. Therefore, signal denoising preprocessing has become an essential part of condition monitoring and fault diagnosis. In the present study, a hybrid fault diagnosis method based on singular value difference spectrum denoising and local mean decomposition for rolling bearing is proposed. First, as a denoising preprocessing method, singular value difference spectrum denoising is applied to reduce the noise of the bearing vibration signal and improve the signal-to-noise ratio. Then, local mean decomposition method is used to decompose the denoised signals into several product functions. And product functions corresponding to the fault feature are selected according to the correlation coefficient criterion. Finally, Teager energy spectrum is analyzed by applying the Teager energy operator to the constructed amplitude modulation component. The proposed method is successfully applied to analyze the vibration signals collected from an experimental motive rolling bearing and rolling bearing of the self-made rotor experimental platform. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed singular value difference spectrum denoising and local mean decomposition method can achieve fairly or slightly better performance than the normal local mean decomposition-Teager energy operator method, fast kurtogram, and the wavelet denoising and local mean decomposition method.