Abstract: This study proposes a novel fault diagnosis method that is based on empirical wavelet transform (EWT) and kernel density estimation classifier (KDEC), which can well diagnose fault type of the rolling element bearings. With the proposed fault diagnosis method, the vibration signal of rolling element bearing was firstly decomposed into a series of F modes by EWT, and the root mean squa...

Bearing vibration response studies are crucial for the condition monitoring of bearings and the quality inspection of rotating machinery systems. However, it is still very difficult to diagnose bearing faults, especially rolling element faults, due to the complex, high-dimensional and nonlinear characteristics of vibration signals as well as the strong background noise. A novel nonlinear analys...

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This paper presents an intelligent diagnosis method for a rolling element bearing; the method is constructed on the basis of possibility theory and a fuzzy neural network with frequency-domain features of vibration signals. A sequential diagnosis technique is also proposed through which the fuzzy neural network realized by the partially-linearized neural network (PNN) can sequentially identify ...