Supervised locally linear embedding projection (SLLEP) for machinery fault diagnosis

Following the intuition that the measured signal samples usually distribute on or near the nonlinear low-dimensional manifolds embedded in the high-dimensional signal space, this paper proposes a new machinery fault diagnosis approach based on supervised locally linear embedding projection (SLLEP). The approach first performs the recently proposed manifold learning algorithm supervised locally linear embedding (SLLE) on the high-dimensional fault signal samples to learn the intrinsic embedded multiple manifold features corresponding to different fault modes, and map them into a low-dimensional embedded space to achieve fault feature extraction. For dealing with the new fault sample, the approach then applies local linear regression to find the projection that best approximates the implicit mapping from high-dimensional samples to the embedding. Finally fault classification is carried out in the embedded manifold space. The ball bearing data and rotor bed data are both used to validate the proposed approach. The results show that the proposed approach obviously improves the fault classification performance and outperform the other traditional approaches.

► A new machinery fault diagnosis approach based on supervised locally linear embedding projection is proposed.
► SLLE-based fault diagnosis approach obviously improves the fault classification performance.
► SLLE-based fault diagnosis approach outperforms the other traditional approaches such as PCA and LDA.