Recursive demodulated synchro spline-kernelled chirplet extracting transform: a useful tool for non-linear behavior estimation of non-stationary signal and application to wind turbine fault detection

Abstract

Non-linear behavior is widespread in many kinds of signals from nature and engineering fields. Although the high energy-concentration level of various advanced time-frequency (TF) analysis (TFA) techniques currently developed ensure a fine representation of non-linear behavior of time-varying component (TVC) of the signal, it is far from sufficient to solely consider the single aspect of energy-concentration level, because the actual signal composition is always more complicated, especially for some thorny difficulties such as strong noise interference and the early weak TVC, etc., these negative factors bring significant challenges to reveal the non-linear behavior of TVC of practical signals. A new TFA method aimed at this issue, called recursive demodulated synchro spline-kernelled chirplet extracting transform (RDSSCET), is proposed in this paper. The proposed RDSSCET is developed on the frame of synchro spline-kernelled chirplet extracting transform (SSCET) and a newly designed external-internal nested double iteration mechanism, which effectively addresses the limitation of SSCET in handling multicomponent signals while also exhibiting superior high energy concentration and noise robustness. As such, the proposed RDSSCET can yield a more favorable outcome when revealing the non-linear behavior of TVC, particularly for weak TVC with strong noise interference. Comparison analysis results in numerical simulations verified the performance of RDSSCET. Its effectiveness in real applications is fully tested via two real-world sound signals and a practical case of wind turbine fault detection.

Keywords

Non-linear behavior time-frequency analysis external-internal nested double iteration mechanism energy concentration noise robustness wind turbine fault detection

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