Title
Planetary gearbox fault diagnosis using an on-rotor MEMS accelerometer
Abstract
Conventional accelerometers installed on housing often give out less accurate diagnostic results for planetary gearbox because the mesh excitation of planet gears change with carrier movement. Recent significant advancements in low-power and low-cost Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technologies make it possible and easier to mount MEMS accelerometers directly on the rotating shaft, enabling more accurate dynamic characteristics of the rotating machine to be acquired and used for condition monitoring. In this paper, two tiny MEMS accelerometers are installed diametrically opposite each other on the low-speed input shaft of a planetary gearbox to measure the acceleration signals. The acceleration signals sensed by each MEMS will contain both the tangential acceleration and gravitational acceleration, but the latter can be removed by summing the acceleration signals from both sensors in order to characterise the rotor dynamics precisely. The experimental results show that the tangential acceleration measured on the low-speed input shaft of a planetary gearbox can clearly indicate faults, thus providing a reliable and low-cost method for planetary gearbox condition monitoring.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.23919/IConAC.2017.8081995
2017 23rd International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
MEMS accelerometer,on-rotor measurement,planetary gearbox,condition monitoring
Gravitational acceleration,Microelectromechanical systems,Accelerometer,Control engineering,Planet,Rotor (electric),Acceleration,Condition monitoring,Vibration,Engineering
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5090-5040-6
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Z. Mones100.34
Q. Zeng200.34
L. Hu300.34
Xiaoli Tang493.55
Fengshou Gu52323.43
Andrew Ball67217.29