Wavelets base Automatic Extraction Technology for Vibration Signal Characteristics of Hybrid Electric Vehicle Engine

Abstract

Traditional automatic characteristic extraction technology of engine vibration signals for hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) only focuses on the analysis of engine vibration signals in time domain and frequency domain. Single time domain analysis or single frequency domain analysis cannot accurately analyse the vibration signals, while both time domain analysis and frequency domain analysis have cross-analysis. As a result, the analysis results are repetitive and conflicting, which makes it difficult to extract the characteristics of engine vibration signals. The final extraction accuracy is not high and the extraction efficiency is low. For this reason, an automatic characteristic extraction technology of HEV engine vibration signal based on wavelet packet energy analysis is proposed. Firstly, the mechanical vibration of engine is converted into corresponding voltage and current signals by various sensors and then converted into digital signals by A/D (analog/digital) conditioner. The data of vibration signals are often mixed with various noises, which have a great impact on the final analysis of vibration signals. Data interception and pre-filtering are adopted. Wave, zero-mean, elimination of trend term and elimination of staggered points are used to pre-treat the vibration signals with mixed noise. Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT) algorithm is introduced to analyse the pre-processed engine vibration signals and the fundamental properties of the non-stationary vibration signals in actual operation of the engine are obtained. The energy distribution of the analysed engine vibration signal is calculated by the wavelet packet energy analysis method. The calculated parameters of the energy distribution of the wavelet packet are taken as the characteristic parameters of the vibration signal. The vibration signal characteristics of the engine are automatically extracted. The experiment is carried out in the form of comparison with the traditional method. The experimental results show that the time-frequency joint analysis applied in the proposed technology can accurately analyse the essential characteristics of the engine vibration signal of HEV. The wavelet packet energy analysis method can ensure the extraction accuracy of the engine vibration signal characteristics.