Abstract
The conventional approach for online monitoring of a machine’s operating condition is based on linear time–frequency analysis and is therefore limited by the point that the vibrations are non-linear and non-stationary in nature. This problem has been addressed by the proposal of the multiscale entropy (MSE) approach to non-linear time series analysis. This paper proposes an online feature extractor to allow the vibration signal of shafts experiencing different problems to be differentiated using the MSE approach.
