Mobile agent based artificial immune system for machine condition monitoring
- Authors: Hua, Xue-Liang , Gondal, Iqbal , Yaqub, Farrukh
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: 2013 8th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA) p. 108-113
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- Description: Machine condition monitoring is a process of continuously observing the status of a machine to ensure that proactive measures are taken to prevent damage due to abnormal operating conditions. Generally, industrial units such as mining, oil and gas etc, are located in geographically remote areas, so a large amount of data need to be acquired for fault diagnosis and prognosis remotely. To achieve this, certain resources such as stable communication network and adequate bandwidth are required. Furthermore, it is not always feasible to dispatch human resources simultaneously over large areas of operation to perform on-site maintenance. To overcome these issues, a mobile agent based system architecture is proposed for machine condition monitoring by imitating human immune system (ACMIS), which is also known as artificial immune system. The experiment results are presented to evaluate the performance of the proposed system in terms of fault detection accuracy and bandwidth allocation. Overall performance evaluation of the proposed framework suggests that our proposed scheme not only provides excellent fault detection accuracy but also a flexible and reliable machine condition monitoring system with reduced network and computational resources. Further our approach provides cost effective solution in building a practical machine condition monitoring system.
Optimally parameterized wavelet packet transform for incipient machine fault diagnosis
- Authors: Yaqub, Muhammad Farrukh , Gondal, Iqbal , Kamruzzaman, Joarder
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: 6th International Conference on Leading Edge Manufacturing in 21st Century, LEM 2011
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- Description: Vibration signals used for abnormality detection in machine health monitoring (MHM) are non-stationary in nature. Wavelet packet transform is extensively used in the literature for comprehensive analysis of non-stationary vibration signal but these techniques work only for a specific application lacking in some generalized methodology for selecting appropriate wavelet decomposition level and nodes for optimal performance. This study proposes a framework for inchoate fault detection by selecting the optimal wavelet decomposition level and nodes, named Optimally Parameterized Wavelet Packet Transform (OPWPT). OPWPT uses support vector machine to build the fault diagnostic model. Results in comparison with the existing schemes validate that OPWPT enhances the fault detection accuracy significantly in case of incipient faults when vibration signatures are very weak and overall signal to noise ratio is very poor.
Multi-size-window spectral augmentation: Neural network bearing fault classifier
- Authors: Amar, Muhammad , Gondal, Iqbal , Wilson, Campbell
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: 2013 8th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA) p. 261-266
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- Description: Features extraction has always been crucial in rotary machines for Condition based machine health monitoring. Time-domain-segmentation being among the preliminary steps for further classification process plays a momentous role. Vibration signals from bearing are quasistationary in nature therefore calculation of constituent frequencies amplitudes in the vibration signal is dependent upon time-segmentation-window size. The proposed research confers the effects of time-segmentation window size on spectral features amplitudes calculation and its impacts on classification accuracy of the Artificial Neural Network (ANN). Using multi-size time-segmentation-window, for comprehensive spectral features calculation, ANN pattern classifier has been trained for enhanced classification. ANN learning assigns importance based relative weights to the links using supervised learning. Experimental results have shown that multi-size-window spectral features for ANN fault classifier perform efficiently for quasi-stationary bearing vibrations.
Smart phone based vehicle condition monitoring
- Authors: Yaqub, Muhammad Farrukh , Gondal, Iqbal
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: 2013 8th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA) p. 267-271
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- Description: Condition monitoring (CM) of the industrial equipment is growing auspiciously since the last decade or so. Whereas, very little efforts have been exerted on monitoring the vehicles that we ride every day. One of the main reasons is the actual cost of the CM equipment. Today an average level vibration based condition monitoring unit costs around the total price of the vehicle. Thanks to the advancement in the smart phone technology which provides a broad range of sensors and remarkable computational power in a small handheld devices. Owing to the capability of the smartphones to capture the vibrations using an internal built-in accelerometer, this paper proposes a cost effective vibration condition monitoring unit for the motor vehicles. The accelerometer in the smart phone has very limited capacity in terms sampling rate for the data acquisition. This paper proposes an enhanced sampling rate (ESR) technique for capturing the data at an improved sampling rate in spite of device limitation. Though a lot needs to be done both in terms of hardware optimization and fault diagnosis, the focus of this paper is to achieve an efficient data acquisition using smartphone. Experimental results are presented both for the simulated as well actual vibration datasets which validate the practicality and suitability of the proposed technique.