Identifying rotor-stator rubbing positions based on intrinsic time scale decomposition-hjorth-cepstrum.

To accurately locate rotor–stator rubbing faults in aero-engine, a method combining intrinsic time scale decomposition (ITD), Hjorth parameter and cepstrum analysis has been proposed. First, the method works by decomposing vibration signals from casing into proper rotation components (PRCs) based on ITD; second, calculates the autocorrelation function of each rotation component and the complexity parameters of autocorrelation functions; third, chooses PRCs for signal reconstruction according to complexity from Hjorth parameters and reconstructs the signals based on chosen PRCs; at last, considering that with different positions of rubbing, transfer paths of signals collected by the sensors from the same position are different, cepstrum analysis has been made according to reconstructed signals, and the transfer paths characteristics from cepstrum are taken as feature vectors and inputted into support vector machine for identifying the positions of rotor-stator rubbing faults. The results indicate proposed ITD-Hjorth-Cepstrum method can work well in the identification rate of training and test samples as for the identification rate for an unknown sample. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]