Multi-Sensor GA-BP Algorithm Based Gearbox Fault Diagnosis

To address the problem of the low recognition rate of time-frequency domain methods gearbox fault identification, a method featuring decision-level fusion of DS evidence theory and GA-BP algorithm was proposed in the present study. Firstly, the fault data of each state of the gearbox was classified, based on which the time-frequency domain features were extracted and 19 significant features have been selected. Secondly, the accuracy of the traditional BP algorithm was compared with that of the GA-BP algorithm. On this basis, it has been concluded that the GA-BP algorithm is highly accurate, and the local diagnostic results obtained by the GA-BP algorithm have been used as the basic probability. Finally, the DS evidence theory is currently used to fuses with the GA. In addition, the final fault identification of the gearbox can be achieved by using the DS evidence theory and the multi-sensor local diagnosis results obtained by the GA-BP algorithm for decision fusion. The results of the simulations and experiments showed that the method proposed has improved accuracy over a single algorithm for fault identification of gearboxes, respectively.