Gearbox Fault Diagnosis Based on Two-Class NMF Network Under Variable Working Conditions

The gearbox is an important part of the wind turbine, and it is also a part prone to failure. Most of the fault diagnosis methods for gearboxes lack the ability to adapt to changing operating conditions. Once the operating conditions change, it is necessary to relearn the object characteristics, otherwise it is prone to misjudgment. Therefore, this paper proposes a method based on a two-class non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) network to realize gearbox fault diagnosis under variable operating conditions without additional data. The method is divided into two parts: model training and fault diagnosis. The former takes the basic operating conditions as the benchmark. It extracts the local static characteristics of the fault samples, and trains them into classifier models with different diagnostic functions to construct a network. The latter uses the static distance obtained from the data input network of the new operating condition as an important indicator for detecting the occurrence of a fault and identifying the type of the fault. The experimental results based on the QPZZ-II rotating machinery vibration test stand show that compared with other methods, the algorithm proposed in this paper has a good application effect on the diagnosis under variable operating conditions.