“…Today, the diagnosis of rotating machinery and other mechanisms is an ongoing problem 1–13 . The majority of the existing diagnostic systems are based on vibrational diagnostic methods, 1,2,4,7–9 and they cannot provide information on the cross section of a rotating part or its surface quality. In order to fulfill these requirements, a diagnostic system MICROCON was designed at Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) 13 .…”