A rolling bearing fault diagnosis technique based on recurrence quantification analysis and Bayesian optimization SVM

A rolling bearing fault diagnosis technique is proposed based on Recurrence Quantification Analysis (abbreviated as RQA) and Bayesian optimized Support Vector Machine (abbreviated as RQA-Bayes-SVM). Firstly, analyzing the vibration signal with recurrence plot and the nonlinear feature parameters are extracted with RQA, constructing a feature matrix describing the fault mode and fault degree comprehensively. Finally, Bayesian optimization algorithm is introduced for searching the best penalty factor C and kernel function parameter g of SVM and establishing an optimal Bayes-SVM model. Bearing datasets from CWRU is imported for diagnosis on fault mode and fault degree. The results show that the technique presents a good performance on fault mode diagnosis as well as fault degree distinction. Compared with common k-Nearest Neighbor (abbreviated as KNN) and Random Forest (abbreviated as RF) diagnosis models, Bayes-SVM has the best accuracy and stability, which indicates a potential value for engineering applications.