Stochastic resonance (SR) has been widely used in bearing fault diagnosis due to the enhancement principle of energy conversion from noise to weak signal. However, the diagnosis efficiency and robustness is still challenging.
Under the mechanism of generalized stochastic resonance (GSR), in the paper we propose a scale-transformed linear oscillator (SLO), and obtain the analytical expression of fault feature amplification (FFA) to replace the numerical implementation of output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in the multi-parameter optimization.
It brings the substantial benefit to the reduction of time complexity in fast fault diagnosis, which is verified in both theory and simulations.
In the experimental diagnosis for some typical cases, the results show that the proposed method is valid and exhibits the superiority in diagnosis performance, efficiency, and robustness, which demonstrates that the FFA-guided GSR-SLO method has great potential in the engineering applications, especially the real-time fault diagnosis in complex operating environments.