Análise de atributos de classificação para o diagnóstico de falhas em rolamentos baseado em SVM

Abstract

In industries, the concern in total availability of machines and the mechanical equipment in the productive area it’s subject of research and tests to obtain more efficient techniques to be applied for monitoring and faults’ diagnosing. Bearings are machine elements of great application in the industrial area and they present high fault index that generate machine’s stops to carry out maintenance. For this reason, this paper presents Artificial Intelligence technique applied to the vibration signals of a rotary machine for fault diagnosis in its bearings. The vibration signals are part of an open database offered by Case Western Reserve University. In this paper the Support Vector Machine (SVM) classification algorithm is applied in two ways for the rolling bearings faults’ diagnosis. In the first case statistical predictors (Root Mean Square Value, Crest Factor, K Factor, Kurtosis and Skewness) are used as features for the SVM classifier. In the second case, the signal processing is performed by applying the Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD), which generates several signals called Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs). For each IMF, it’s modeled using Autoregressive Modeling (AR), and the AR modeling coefficients of each IMF are used as features for the SVM classifier. The analyzes are performed for training and validation groups, with randomly chosen window and with temporal sequence chosen window, considering two classification problems within the same data, the first one considers the same severity and only changes the fault type and the other vary both severity and fault type. As result, both methodologies presented excellent reliability results for bearing faults’ diagnosis.