abstract = "Feature extraction is an essential process in the
intelligent fault diagnosis of rotating machinery.
Although existing feature extraction methods can obtain
representative features from the original signal,
domain knowledge and expert experience are often
required. In this article, a novel diagnosis approach
based on evolutionary learning, namely, automatic
feature extraction and construction using genetic
programming (AFECGP), is proposed to automatically
generate informative and discriminative features from
original vibration signals for identifying different
fault types of rotating machinery. To achieve this, a
new program structure, a new function set, and a new
terminal set are developed in AFECGP to allow it to
detect important subband signals and extract and
construct informative features, automatically and
simultaneously. More important, AFECGP can produce a
flexible number of features for classification. Having
the generated features, k-Nearest Neighbors is employed
to perform fault diagnosis. The performance of the
AFECGP-based fault diagnosis approach is evaluated on
four fault diagnosis datasets of varying difficulty and
compared with 14 baseline methods. The results show
that the proposed approach achieves better fault
diagnosis accuracy on all the datasets than the
competitive methods and can effectively identify
different fault conditions of rolling bearing, gear,
and rotor.",
notes = "Hebei Key Laboratory of Electric Machinery Health
Maintenance and Failure Prevention, North China
Electric Power University, Baoding 071000, China.