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An Improved EMD Method for Time–Frequency Feature Extraction of Telemetry Vibration Signal Based on Multi-Scale Median Filtering

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We hereby propose an Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) method improved with a multi-scale median filtering for extraction of the time–frequency feature of telemetry vibration signals under interference from impulse noise. The signal is decomposed into a series of intrinsic mode functions (IMF) by EMD roughly. Median filtering is then performed on each IMF with filter window length varying with the IMF’s frequency, respectively. This maneuver will allow effective impulse noise suppression with minimal loss of signal integrity. A new signal can then be reconstructed by adding up each component after the median filtering and treated with a repeat EMD to obtain new IMFs as a final result. This method overcomes the filtering window length selection problem in the median filtering, which can obtain better time–frequency feature extraction performance under the impulse noise interference condition. Data processing results from both a simulation signal and a telemetry vibration signal of a test showed the effectiveness of this method.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41374185), the National Key Technology R&D Program in the 12th Five year Plan of china (Grant No. 2012BAJ11B04) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 2652013112).

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  2. School of Water Resources and Environment, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing, 100083, China

    Xiong Wu

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Li, M., Wu, X. & Liu, X. An Improved EMD Method for Time–Frequency Feature Extraction of Telemetry Vibration Signal Based on Multi-Scale Median Filtering. Circuits Syst Signal Process 34, 815–830 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00034-014-9875-5

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