Bearing fault diagnosis method based on refined composite multiscale fuzzy entropy

In this paper, a new fuzzy C-mean (FCM) clustering method based on refined composite multiscale fuzzy entropy (RCMFE) is proposed and applied to the bearing fault diagnosis of rotating machinery. The RCMFE adds multiscale processing, which can not only characterize the complex changes of time sequences at several different scales but also solve the problems of information loss caused by the process of coarse granulation and large fluctuation of entropy value when the scale becomes large. This method uses RCMFE to extract fault features, that are inputted into the Fuzzy C-mean clustering algorithm to achieve rolling bearing fault identification. Comparing the method with Multiscale Fuzzy Entropy (MFE) and Composite Multiscale Fuzzy Entropy (CMFE), the method used was experimentally proven to have better diagnostic results.