Failure diagnosis method for machinery in unsteady operating condition by instantaneous power spectrum and genetic programming

The paper proposes a failure diagnosis method for machinery in unsteady operating condition using instantaneous power spectrum (IPS) and genetic programming (GP). The IPS is used to extract feature frequency of each machine state from measured vibration signal for distinguishing failures by the Relative Crossing Information (RCI). Excellent symptom parameters for detecting failures are automatically generated by GP. The method proposed in the paper is verified by applying it to the failure diagnosis of rolling bearing.