Feature-based performance of SVM and KNN classifiers for diagnosis of rolling element bearing faults
Mohd Atif Jamil, Md Asif Khan, Sidra Khanam
Abstract
Rolling element bearings (REBs) are vital parts of rotating machinery across various industries. For preventing breakdowns and damages during operation, it is crucial to establish appropriate techniques for condition monitoring and fault diagnostics of these bearings. The development of machine learning (ML) brings a new way of diagnosing the fault of rolling element bearings. In the current work, ML models, namely, Support Vector Machine (SVM) and K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), are used to classify the faults associated with different ball bearing elements. Using open-source Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) bearing data, machine learning classifiers are trained with extracted time-domain and frequency-domain features. The results show that frequency-domain features are more convincing for the training of ML models, and the KNN classifier has a high level of accuracy compared to SVM.