FAULT DIAGNOSIS OF ROTATING MACHINERY THROUGH FUZZY PATTERN MATCHING

In this paper, it is shown how Fuzzy Pattern Matching can be applied to diagnosis of the most common faults of Rotating Machinery. The whole diagnosis process has been divided in three steps : Fault Detection, Fault Isolation and Fault Identification, whose possible results are described by linguistic patterns. Diagnosis will consist in obtaining a set of matching indexes that indexes that express the compatibility of the fuzzified features extracted from the measured vibration signals, with the knowledge contained in the corresponding patterns.