Principal component analysis and blind source separation of modulated sources for electro-mechanical systems diagnostic

This paper extends a robust-to-noise technique earlier developed for the separation of rotating machine signals. It exploited spectral matrices of delayed observations to eliminate the noise influence. In this paper, we focus on the modulated sources and prove that the proposed PCA is available to denoise such sources as well as sinusoidal ones. Finally, performance of the algorithm is investigated with experimental vibration data issued from a complex electro-mechanical system.