“…To locate the signatures associated with motor faults, different tools have been used on MCSA for time-frequency decomposition, allowing tracing of the evolution of such frequencies in time. Examples of these decompositions are the short-time Fourier transform [9][10][11][12], discrete wavelet transform [12][13][14][15], continuous wavelet transform [16][17][18][19], the Hilbert transform [20,21], the HilbertHuang Transform [20,21], the Wigner-Ville distribution [22][23][24][25][26][27], the Choi-Williams distribution [26][27][28], and multiple signal classification (MUSIC) [5]. Some of these tools work together with artificial intelligence classifiers for decisionmaking about the components or signatures that are present in the signals for identifying faults and their severity, such as artificial neural networks (ANN), fuzzy logic, fuzzy neural networks, and genetic algorithms [6,10,14,16,17,24,29].…”