A New Performance Degradation Evaluation Method Integrating PCA, PSR and KELM

In order to better characterize the performance degradation trend of rolling bearings, a new performance degradation evaluation method based on principal component analysis (PCA), phase space reconstruction (PSR) and kernel extreme learning machine (KELM), namely PAPRKM is proposed to evaluate the performance degradation of rolling bearings in this paper. In the PAPRKM method, the time-domain and frequency-domain features of the vibration signal are extracted to construct the high-dimension feature matrix. Then the PCA is used to reduce the dimension of the feature matrix in order to represent the running state and the declining trend of rolling bearings, so as to eliminate the redundancy and information conflict among these features. Nextly, the PSR is adopted to obtain more relevant information from the time series. By determining the delay time and embedding dimension, the time series are reconstructed to obtain a new performance degradation index, which is regarded as the input data to input into KELM, and the degradation trend prediction model is established to realize the performance degradation trend prediction. Finally, the actual vibration signals of rolling bearings are applied to prove the effectiveness of the PAPRKM. The obtained experimental results show that the PAPRKM method can effectively predict the performance degradation trend of rolling bearings. The predicted results are more accurate than the other compared methods.