Research Article

A Novel Clustering Method Combining ART with Yu’s Norm for Fault Diagnosis of Bearings

Table 1

Time-domain and frequency-domain feature parameters.

⁢Time-domain feature parameters⁢Frequency-domain feature parameters
FeatureEquationFeatureEquation

Mean ()Mean frequency
Root mean square () Average frequency that is wave shape of signal crosses the mean of time-domain signal
Standard deviation ()Stabilization factor of wave shape
Skewness ()Coefficient of variability
Kurtosis ()
  −  
Frequency-domain skewness
Crest factor (CF)Frequency-domain kurtosis
Latitude factor (LF)Root-mean-square ratio
Shape factor (SF)⁢where is power spectrum density which is obtained by the Welch method. is the number of spectrum lines used to calculate the parameters, and⁢,  
Impulse factor (IF)
where is a signal series for , and is the number of data points.