The present invention discloses an adaptive
variational mode decomposition method for rolling bearing fault
feature extraction, including: (1) building a bearing
data acquisition platform to collect the bearing fault vibration
signal x(t), and initializing the number of intrinsic mode components IMF, that is, the parameter k = 1; (2) setting k = k + 1, performing
variational mode decomposition on the collected vibration
signal x(t), and respectively calculating the
permutation entropy PE of the k-th and the (k-1)-th IMF components, and their values are respectively denoted as PE k and PE k‑1 , if |PE k - PE k‑1 | is greater than the threshold u1, then go to (2), otherwise, set k = k - 1, and perform VMD
decomposition on the
signal x(t); (3) if the value of k is less than 2, go to (5); (4) calculate the Pearson
correlation coefficient e between adjacent components among the k IMF components, if there is an e value greater than the threshold u2, then set k = k - 1, perform VMD
decomposition on the collected vibration signal x(t), and go to (3); (5) output k discrete IMF feature components. The present invention can adaptively determine the number of
decomposition modes, effectively suppress the over-
decomposition problem occurring in the decomposition process, and further improve the performance of bearing fault signal mode decomposition.