A progressive decomposing and double screening strategy of VMD for weak fault extraction of hoisting machinery

Abstract

To alleviate the difficulty of extracting weak fault features of hoisting machinery, a progressive decomposing and double screening strategy of variational mode decomposition (VMD) is presented in this paper. Firstly, the feasibility and effectiveness of extracting fault modes using progressive decomposition strategy is validated through numerical simulation, and it solves the problem of determining the mode number [Formula: see text] in traditional VMD. Secondly, a new index named energy fluctuation factor (EFF) is proposed. Specifically, EFF is more effective in detecting the signal periodicity compared with the kurtosis and the Shannon entropy (SE), and it is used to optimize the balance parameter [Formula: see text] of VMD. Thirdly, the criterion of double screening based on the kurtosis and the EFF is given to accurately localize and reconstruct the fault modes, and then Hilbert transform is utilized to demodulate the reconstructed mode. Finally, the numerical simulation and experimental and practical engineering applications verify that the proposed method can accurately extract the modes of weak fault and well solve the problem of determining the key parameters (i.e., [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] ) of VMD. Furthermore, the superiority of the proposed method is validated by comparing with other fault diagnosis methods.