Bearing fault feature extraction based on MOMEDA and CS-Wood–Saxon stochastic resonance

Abstract Since rolling bearing is of great significance to ensure the safe and stable operation of rotating machinery, bearing fault feature extraction then demonstrates a hot topic of general interest in industry. In this work, we applied Multipoint Optimal Minimum Entroy Deconvolution Adjusted preprocessing algorithm to deal with the large amount of background noise containing in the collected bearing fault original signal. Then, the Wood–Saxon stochastic resonance nonlinear system model is adopted to solve the bearing fault feature extraction problem, which avoids the frequency interval and system parameters disadvantages in bistable stochastic resonance system. Furthermore, the parameter step and scale transform factor in the Wood–Saxon stochastic resonance nonlinear system is optimized adaptively by Cuckoo Search algorithm, in which way the output signal-to-noise of bearing fault signal is improved significantly. Therefore, the bearing fault feature can be extracted more effectively compared with the classical bistable stochastic resonance system model. Simulation and examples demonstrated that the proposed method can effectively reduce the noise in the signal and enhance the weak feature in bearing fault signal, so as to realize the accurate early bearing fault diagnosis.