The vibration signals of wind turbine planetary gearboxes often exhibit different characteristics under varying rotational speed conditions. Even for the same gear tooth fault, impact components may be clearly observed in some signal intervals but mas...
The vibration signals of wind turbine planetary gearboxes often exhibit different characteristics under varying rotational speed conditions. Even for the same gear tooth fault, impact components may be clearly observed in some signal intervals but masked by noise or speed fluctuations in others. To address this problem, this study integrates features from multiple domains, including time-domain and frequency-domain features, wavelet energy, envelope components, Teager energy, and Hjorth parameters. The purpose of this feature construction is not merely to increase the number of features, but to capture the fault-related signatures of tooth breakage, wear, and root cracks from complementary perspectives.
For the classification stage, XGBoost is employed as the base diagnostic model. ANOVA scores are not used as a direct criterion for feature elimination; instead, they are used to assign lower weights to less informative features during model training. Particle swarm optimization is further applied to simultaneously optimize the key parameters of XGBoost and the feature weight intensities. In the final diagnostic stage, the prediction result is determined at the file level by averaging the prediction probabilities of all signal windows extracted from the same file, rather than relying on individual window-level predictions.
Experiments conducted on the WT-Planetary Gearbox Dataset demonstrate that the proposed method achieves more stable file-level diagnostic performance than BP, LSTM, and standard XGBoost models. In particular, the proposed method is effective in reducing misclassification among fault types with similar decision boundaries, such as tooth damage and wear.