Research Article

A Morphological Filtering Method Based on Particle Swarm Optimization for Railway Vehicle Bearing Fault Diagnosis

Table 7

The kurtosis values of collected operations of the rolling element fault signal.

OperatorKurtosis

Dilation1.88
Morphological gradient (MG)33.28
Open1.19
Difference filter (DIF)53.37
White top-hat transform (WTH)64.62
Close-open (CO)0.66
Combination morphological filter (CMF)1.06
Combination morphological filter hat (CMFH)24.88
Erosion2.12
Close1.22
Close and open average (AC&O)1.09
Black top-hat transform (BTH)119.38
Combination of WTH and positive BTH (CWTH&PBTH)35.23
Open-close (OC)1.18
CO and OC gradient (GCO&OC)43.63
Morphology gradient product operation (MGPO)3.66