Intelligent Condition Monitoring for Rotating Machinery Using Compressively-Sampled Data and Sub-space Learning Techniques

Rotating machines are widely used in industry. Unforeseen machine failures affect production schedules, product quality, and production costs. Therefore, condition monitoring of rotating machine can play an important role in machine availability. There is a growing number of methods for Machine Condition Monitoring (MCM). Yet, the performance of these methods is limited by the massive amounts of data need to be collected for MCM. This work proposes a computational method which can greatly reduce the high dimensional vibration dataset to a set of compressively-sampled measurements using Compressive Sampling (CS). Then, to learn fewer features from these compressively-sampled measurements we propose an effective multi-step feature learning algorithm that combines the advantages of Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), and Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA). Finally, with these learned features, we use multi-class Support Vector Machine (SVM) to classify machine health conditions. Experiments on a roller element bearing fault classification task based on vibration signals are used to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed method. The most obvious finding to emerge from this study is that we are able to achieve high classification accuracy even from highly reduced vibration signal measurements. Moreover, the efficiency of our proposed method outperforms some recently published results. The proposed method offers better accuracy and has lower costs in time and storage requirements.