Abstract:For the issues that the automatic fault diagnosis of rotating machinery, a fault diagnosis method based on empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and frequency auxiliary signal (FAS) was proposed. First of all, the filter was used to remove the nonbearing fault component, and through the experimental acquisition of the frequency of various failures, a fault model was built. Then, the mechanical vibration signal collected by the photoelectric displacement sensor was spectrum analyzed. When the main frequency is close to the characteristic frequency of a specific fault, a FAS was constructed according to the characteristic frequency and superimposed with the vibration signal. Then, the EMD operation was performed on the superimposed signal, and the main intrinsic mode function (IMF) was selected according to the energy criterion. Finally, the envelope of the main IMF signal was obtained by the cubic spline interpolation method, and the center frequency of the envelope spectrum was obtained to diagnose the fault. The experimental results show that the proposed method can solve the problem of modal aliasing of EMD and is robust to the concurrency of the fault.