Gearbox compound fault diagnosis based on a combined MSGMD-MOMEDA method

Abstract

Abstract Weak fault detection is a complex and challenging task when two or more faults (compound fault) with discordant severity occur in different parts of a gearbox. The weak fault features are prone to be submerged by the severe fault features and strong background noise, which easily lead to a missed diagnosis. To solve this problem, a novel diagnosis method combining muti-symplectic geometry mode decomposition and multipoint optimal minimum entropy deconvolution adjusted (MSGMD-MOMEDA) is proposed for gearbox compound fault in this paper. Specifically, different fault components are separated by the improved symplectic geometry mode decomposition (SGMD), namely, multi-SGMD (MSGMD) method. The weak fault features are enhanced by the multipoint optimal minimum entropy deconvolution adjusted (MOMEDA). In the process of research, a new scheme of selecting key parameters of MOMEDA is proposed, which is a key step in applying MOMEDA. Compared with SGMD, the proposed MSGMD has two main improvements, including suppressing mode mixing and preventing the generation of the pseudo components. Compared with the original method of selecting parameters based on multipoint kurtosis, the proposed MOMEDA parameters selecting scheme has more merits of high accuracy and precision. The analysis results of two cases of simulation and experiment signal reveal that the MSGMD-MOMEDA method can accurately diagnose the gearbox compound fault even under strong background noise.