Fault identification method for planetary gear based on DT-CWT threshold denoising and LE

Planetary gear is widely used in large-scale complex mechanical systems. However, because of the particularity of planetary gear transmission, serious wear and fatigue crack failures often occur in the sun gear, planet gears, and inner gear ring. In addition, every type of fault will experience different degradation processes. Improving the operation reliability of mechanical equipment through fault diagnosis of planetary gears and monitoring their degradation process is beneficial. This paper proposes a planetary gear fault identification method based on Dual-tree Complex wavelet transform (DT-CWT) threshold denoising and Laplacian eigenmaps (LE). The noise reduction processing of the original signal is achieved by the DT-CWT threshold denoising method, which takes full advantage of DT-CWT and is combined with the wavelet threshold of rigrsure principle. The original high-dimensional feature set, including the time domain features, frequency domain features, permutation entropy, and fractal box dimension of the denoised signal, is constructed from multi-angles. To solve the problems of excessively large feature dimension and the existence of redundant information, the LE algorithm is used to reduce the dimension of the original high-dimensional feature set, and the low-dimensional sensitive features are obtained. Through the above method, the effective identification of different fault states and different degradation states of the planetary gear are achieved.