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A Rolling Bearing Fault Diagnosis Method Based on ICEEMDAN and AHO−SVM

Jul 2026 · Information · Vol 17, pp. 701 · 0 citations · 32 references

Abstract

To address the issues of rolling bearing fault vibration signals being susceptible to noise interference and the support vector machine (SVM) relying on manual parameter settings, this paper proposes a fault diagnosis method based on ICEEMDAN and AIHO−SVM. Firstly, the Hippopotamus Optimization Algorithm is improved by incorporating Chebyshev chaotic mapping, refraction opposite learning, dynamic weighting, adaptive step size, and guided learning strategies, thereby enhancing convergence accuracy and speed. Secondly, ICEEMDAN is employed to decompose vibration signals for noise reduction, and the effective intrinsic mode function (IMF) components are selected according to the mutual information criterion to reconstruct the signal. Nine time−domain statistical features are then extracted to construct the fault feature vector. Thirdly, AIHO is used to collaboratively optimize the penalty factor and kernel parameters of SVM, establishing an AIHO−SVM classification model. Finally, the proposed method is validated on bearing datasets from Case Western Reserve University and Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Experimental results show that the average diagnostic accuracies on the two datasets reach 99.07% and 99.09%, respectively, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed method for rolling bearing fault diagnosis.

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