The invention belongs to the technical field of rotating
mechanical equipment fault detection, and particularly relates to a fault
feature extraction method based on an entropy theory, which comprises the following steps: collecting vibration signals of a bearing in different
health states, and segmenting the vibration signals into data samples with equal length; a fine
time shifting multi-scale coarse graining method is adopted to generate a sequence under each scale, and the integrity of a
signal structure is kept; extracting a local maximum value and a local minimum value in each section of
signal, constructing a key mode set and recording the position of the key mode set, calculating probability distribution of key mode intervals under each scale, and thus obtaining a corresponding attention entropy value; and finally, fusing the attention entropies under the scales to form a
feature set representing multiple scales. According to the method, a strategy of combining fine
time shifting and coarse graining is introduced, the problem of
instability of traditional multi-scale entropy in a high-
scale space is solved, and the consistency and integrity of
feature extraction results under all scales are effectively guaranteed.