Life prediction of slewing bearing based on isometric mapping and fuzzy support vector regression

The monitoring data of slewing bearing is massive. In order to establish accurate life prediction model from complex vibration signal of slewing bearing, a life prediction method based on manifold learning and fuzzy support vector regression (SVR) is proposed. Firstly, the multiple features are extracted from time domain and time-frequency domain. Then isometric mapping (ISOMAP) is used to reduce high-dimensional features to low-dimensional features that can reflect degeneration of slewing bearing well. Finally, the fuzzy SVR is used to predict the life degradation trend of slewing bearing. The results show that: (1) Multi-feature fusion after ISOMAP can obtain more comprehensive degradation indicator. (2) The complexity of the life prediction model is simplified and the real-time life degradation trend of slewing bearing can be well predicted by fuzzy SVR, so it is very suitable to predict life degradation trend of slewing bearing based on massive data well. The time of prediction on average is reduced by 72.7%. The mean absolute error (MAE) and root mean square error (RMSE) of prediction are reduced by 73% and 59% respectively compared with traditional methods. The accuracy of prediction is greatly improved.