Model-Free Data Mining of Families of Rotating Machinery

Abstract

Machines designed to perform the same tasks using different technologies can be organized into families based on their similarities or differences. We are interested in identifying common properties and differences of such machines from raw sensor data for analysis and fault diagnostics. The usual first step is a feature extraction process that requires an understanding of the machine’s harmonics, bearing frequencies, etc. In this paper, we present a model-free path from the raw sensor data to statistically meaningful feature vectors. This is accomplished by defining a transform independent of the operating frequency and performing statistical reductions to identify the components with the largest variances, resulting in a low dimensional statistically meaningful feature space. To obtain an insight into the family relationships we perform a clustering. As the data set has some labeled characteristics we define an entropy-based measure to evaluate a clustering using the a priori-known labels, resulting in a symmetric measurement uniquely defining the clustering goal. Applying this hierarchically we obtain the family tree. The methods are presented can be applied in general situations. As a case study we apply them to a real data set of vibrating screens.

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