Multi-Frequency Weak Signal Decomposition and Reconstruction of Rolling Bearing Based on Adaptive Cascaded Stochastic Resonance

Abstract

In engineering practice, the bearing fault signal is composed of a series of complex multi-component signals containing multiple fault characteristics information. In the early stage of fault sprouting and evolution, the fault features are easily disturbed by noise and irrelevant signals, eliminating the fault signals in the strong background noise. To overcome the influence of noise on the signal, this study proposes multi-frequency weak signal decomposition and reconstruction of rolling bearing based on adaptive cascaded stochastic resonance. First, the original signal is passed through the Hilbert transform to obtain the envelope signal. The envelope signal is high-pass filtered to eliminate the interference of low-frequency components on the response of the stochastic resonance system. Secondly, cascaded stochastic resonance system parameters are adaptively optimized by the quantum particle swarm algorithm (QPSO). The high-pass filtered signal input to the adaptive cascaded stochastic resonance system (ACSRS) can further enhance the weak fault characteristics, allowing the gradual transfer of high-frequency noise energy to the low-frequency fault characteristic components. Finally, the signal is decomposed using the variational mode decomposition (VMD) method to jointly determine the location of the fault characteristic frequencies in the intrinsic mode functions (IMF) component by the energy loss coefficient and correlation coefficient to achieve the reconstruction of multi-frequency weak signals. Through simulation and experimental validation, the effectiveness and superiority of the method for multi-frequency weak signal detection in bearings are verified. The results show that the method not only achieves the adaptive optimization of the stochastic resonance system parameters gradually removing the high-frequency noise in the signal and improving the energy of the low-frequency signal but also reduces the number of decomposition layers of the VMD, enhances the fault characteristic information in the weak signal, and effectively identifies the early weak fault characteristics of rolling bearings.