%0 Journal Article %T Evaluation of Effectiveness of Wavelet Based Denoising Schemes Using ANN and SVM for Bearing Condition Classification %A Vijay G. S. %A Kumar H. S. %A Srinivasa Pai P. %A Sriram N. S. %A Raj B. K. N. Rao %J Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience %D 2012 %I Hindawi Publishing Corporation %R 10.1155/2012/582453 %X The wavelet based denoising has proven its ability to denoise the bearing vibration signals by improving the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and reducing the root-mean-square error (RMSE). In this paper seven wavelet based denoising schemes have been evaluated based on the performance of the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and the Support Vector Machine (SVM), for the bearing condition classification. The work consists of two parts, the first part in which a synthetic signal simulating the defective bearing vibration signal with Gaussian noise was subjected to these denoising schemes. The best scheme based on the SNR and the RMSE was identified. In the second part, the vibration signals collected from a customized Rolling Element Bearing (REB) test rig for four bearing conditions were subjected to these denoising schemes. Several time and frequency domain features were extracted from the denoised signals, out of which a few sensitive features were selected using the FisherĄ¯s Criterion (FC). Extracted features were used to train and test the ANN and the SVM. The best denoising scheme identified, based on the classification performances of the ANN and the SVM, was found to be the same as the one obtained using the synthetic signal. 1. Introduction The detection of fault in the machinery, in its incipient stage itself, has gained prime importance as it avoids machine down time, catastrophic failure of the machinery, threat to human life, high maintenance costs, and so forth. The fault diagnostic techniques based on the vibration signal analysis have become popular in recent times [1, 2]. The problem of the strong noise components masking the weak characteristic signals has always posed challenges to the condition monitoring expert. Several wavelet based signal processing techniques aiming at denoising the measured signal so as to increase the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) and reduce the Root-Mean-Square Error (RMSE) have been proposed and tried by several researchers [3¨C7]. The details of the techniques used by some of the researchers have been explained in Section 2.2. The wavelet based denoising technique has gained popularity due to its effectiveness and ease of application [8]. It overcomes the difficulty of determining the resonant frequency of the system. Therefore, the wavelet technique has been adopted in this work for denoising the bearing vibration signals. The detail coefficients, obtained from the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT), generally include a large proportion of the high-frequency noise components along with some of the characteristic %U http://www.hindawi.com/journals/cin/2012/582453/