Bearing Fault Diagnosis with Variable Speed Based on Fractional Hierarchical Range Entropy and Hunter–Prey Optimization Algorithm–Optimized Random Forest

Abstract

It is difficult for rolling bearings to realize high-precision fault diagnosis with variable speed. To obtain the features of variable speed fault signal effectively and complete the classification work of high accuracy, robust local mean decomposition (RLMD), fractional hierarchical range entropy (FrHRE), hunter–prey optimization algorithm (HPO) and random forest (RF) are combined. Then the paper advances a model for fault diagnosis based on RLMD, FrHRE and HPO-RF. Firstly, RLMD is selected to reconstruct the signal to eliminate some noise interference in this paper. Secondly, FrHRE is chosen to extract the useful feature. Next step, HPO is used to optimize the important parameters of RF and enhance RF’s classification ability. Finally, these obtained features are imported into the optimized RFmodel to achieve the classification. The experimental data is provided by University of Ottawa. The experiment analysis demonstrates that the proposed method performs very well in classification.