Ramanujan-gram: an autonomous weak period fault extraction method under strong noise

• Published in: Structural health monitoring Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 2068 - 2082
• Main Authors: Pan, Haiyang, Feng, Hong, Cheng, Jian, Zheng, Jinde
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.07.2024
• Subjects: adaptive frequency band segmentation; adaptive square envelope spectrum weighted kurtosis; order statistics filter; Ramanujan feature extraction technique; Ramanujan-gram
• ISSN: 1475-9217; 1741-3168
• DOI: 10.1177/14759217231197806

Under the influence of strong noise, period fault features of rolling bearing are not obvious, which increases the difficulty of accurately extracting period fault features. An autonomous weak period fault extraction method under strong noise named Ramanujan-gram is proposed in this paper. The greatest advantage of Ramanujan-gram is that it uses the Ramanujan feature extraction technique to reconstruct the components in each frequency band, which can overcome the weakness of the weak noise robustness of the filter methods used by the traditional kurtogram methods and improve the accuracy of period fault feature extraction. Meanwhile, the adaptive frequency band segmentation method based on the order statistical filter is used for adaptive frequency band segmentation, which overcomes the defect that the binary tree structure of fixed frequency band segmentation may destroy the optimal demodulated frequency band. Considering that kurtosis index is difficult to accurately evaluate period fault information in components, Ramanujan-gram adopts adaptive square envelope spectrum weighted kurtosis index to improve the evaluation accuracy of period fault information. The test signals of rolling bearing verify that Ramanujan-gram has strong noise robustness and is an effective method for weak period fault extraction under strong noise.