A gear fault diagnosis method based on variational mode decomposition and multi-scale discrete entropy

Aiming at monitoring of gearbox faults, a gear fault feature extraction method based on variational mode decomposition (VMD) and multi-scale discrete entropy (MDE) is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the gear fault signal is decomposed into a series of intrinsic modal function (IMF) by VMD with selected parameters; Secondly, the decomposed IMF are extracted by MDE feature extraction method to form a feature sample set; Finally, the least square support vector machine (LSSVM) is used to classify the data set after feature extraction. The experiment results show that the proposed method owns the higher fault diagnosis accuracy than the traditional multi-scale entropy methods.