Application of artificial intelligence techniques to the study of machine signatures

Abstract

This paper presents demonstration on the application of artificial intelligence techniques to the study of machine vibration signatures. First, a Self-Organizing Map (SOM) is used to discover cluster information from frequency-domain vibration signatures for the detection and diagnosis of unbalanced rotor and bearing faults. In the next, with further feature extraction in frequency-domain, a 2-dimensional multi-class Support Vector Machine (SVM) is used to predict these fault modes with an error rate of 1.48% over a wide machine operation speed. © 2012 IEEE.