Feature Extraction Method of Ball Mill Load Based on Adaptive Variational Mode Decomposition and Improved Power Spectrum Analysis

Abstract

Abstract The real-time working conditions of the ball mill in the grinding process are complicated, which makes it difficult to accurately obtain the internal load status of the ball mill. In this paper, the energy difference between the original cylinder vibration signal and the intrinsic mode function is proposed as the evaluation parameter of the adaptive variational mode decomposition (VMD) layer number, and a new autocorrelation function is constructed. The intrinsic mode function is processed by introducing the energy centrobaric method of the Nuttall self-convolution window. Accordingly, a ball mill load feature extraction method based on adaptive VMD and improved power spectrum estimation is proposed, and the ball mill load identification system based on LabVIEW is developed. The number of layers of intrinsic mode function could be adaptively determined. And the algorithm’s ability to resist mode aliasing and false components of this method is improved, which improves the accuracy of ball mill load detection. The measured results show that internal load features of ball mill during the grinding process are effectively extracted, and the mill load status is accurately identified, which provide an accurate and reliable basis for grinding optimization control and efficiency.