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Fault diagnosis for machinery based on feature extraction and general regression neural network

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Fault diagnosis for the maintenance of machinery is more difficult since it becomes more precise, automatic and efficient. To tackle this problem, a new feature extraction method for signal processing is developed and a general regression neural network (GRNN)—based method is proposed in this paper. Features are extracted from vibration signals that collected from mechanical systems and a feature selection method based on Euclidean distance technique (EDT) is applied. Then, the selected features are processed by the fault characteristic frequencies of mechanical components. And a part of processed data is as train samples and the others as test samples. Finally, the samples are inputted to GRNN to train and verify the model. The proposed method is applied as a fault diagnosis method for both planetary gearbox and bearings datasets, and the performance of it is validated by compared to such methods as radial basis function neural networks (RBFNN), probabilistic neural network (PNN) and a combination model (EMD–EDT). The experimental results show that the GRNN-based method has an advantage over other similar approaches.

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    Haiping Li, Jianmin Zhao, Xianglong Ni & Xinghui Zhang

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Li, H., Zhao, J., Ni, X. et al. Fault diagnosis for machinery based on feature extraction and general regression neural network. Int J Syst Assur Eng Manag 9, 1034–1046 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13198-018-0726-9

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