A New Method of Wind Turbine Bearing Fault Diagnosis Based on Multi-Masking Empirical Mode Decomposition and Fuzzy C-Means Clustering

Based on Multi-Masking Empirical Mode Decomposition (MMEMD) and fuzzy c-means (FCM) clustering, a new method of wind turbine bearing fault diagnosis FCM-MMEMD is proposed, which can determine the fault accurately and timely. First, FCM clustering is employed to classify the data into different clusters, which helps to estimate whether there is a fault and how many fault types there are. If fault signals exist, the fault vibration signals are then demodulated and decomposed into different frequency bands by MMEMD in order to be analyzed further. In order to overcome the mode mixing defect of empirical mode decomposition (EMD), a novel method called MMEMD is proposed. It is an improvement to masking empirical mode decomposition (MEMD). By adding multi-masking signals to the signals to be decomposed in different levels, it can restrain low-frequency components from mixing in highfrequency components effectively in the sifting process and then suppress the mode mixing. It has the advantages of easy implementation and strong ability of suppressing modal mixing. The fault type is determined by Hilbert envelope finally. The results of simulation signal decomposition showed the high performance of MMEMD. Experiments of bearing fault diagnosis in wind turbine bearing fault diagnosis proved the validity and high accuracy of the new method.

Watershed classification by remote sensing indices： A fuzzy c-means clustering approach

Determining the relatively similar hydrological properties of the watersheds is very crucial in order to readily classify them for management practices such as flood and soil erosion control. This study aimed to identify homogeneous hydrological watersheds using remote sensing data in western Iran. To achieve this goal, remote sensing indices including SAVI, LAI, NDMI, NDVI and snow cover, were extracted from MODIS data over the period 2000 to 2015. Then, a fuzzy method was used to clustering the watersheds based on the extracted indices. A fuzzy c-mean(FCM) algorithm enabled to classify 38 watersheds in three homogeneous groups.The optimal number of clusters was determined through evaluation of partition coefficient, partition entropy function and trial and error. The results indicated three homogeneous regions identified by the fuzzy c-mean clustering and remote sensing product which are consistent with the variations of topography and climate of the study area. Inherently,the grouped watersheds have similar hydrological properties and are likely to need similar management considerations and measures.

A Fixed Suppressed Rate Selection Method for Suppressed Fuzzy C-Means Clustering Algorithm

Suppressed fuzzy c-means (S-FCM) clustering algorithm with the intention of combining the higher speed of hard c-means clustering algorithm and the better classification performance of fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm had been studied by many researchers and applied in many fields. In the algorithm, how to select the suppressed rate is a key step. In this paper, we give a method to select the fixed suppressed rate by the structure of the data itself. The experimental results show that the proposed method is a suitable way to select the suppressed rate in suppressed fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm.

New two-dimensional fuzzy C-means clustering algorithm for image segmentation

To solve the problem of poor anti-noise performance of the traditional fuzzy C-means (FCM) algorithm in image segmentation, a novel two-dimensional FCM clustering algorithm for image segmentation was proposed. In this method, the image segmentation was converted into an optimization problem. The fitness function containing neighbor information was set up based on the gray information and the neighbor relations between the pixels described by the improved two-dimensional histogram. By making use of the global searching ability of the predator-prey particle swarm optimization, the optimal cluster center could be obtained by iterative optimization, and the image segmentation could be accomplished. The simulation results show that the segmentation accuracy ratio of the proposed method is above 99%. The proposed algorithm has strong anti-noise capability, high clustering accuracy and good segment effect, indicating that it is an effective algorithm for image segmentation.

Fuzzy C-Means Clustering Based Phonetic Tied-Mixture HMM in Speech Recognition

A fuzzy clustering analysis based phonetic tied-mixture HMM(FPTM) was presented to decrease parameter size and improve robustness of parameter training. FPTM was synthesized from state-tied HMMs by a modified fuzzy C-means clustering algorithm. Each Gaussian codebook of FPTM was built from Gaussian components within the same root node in phonetic decision tree. The experimental results on large vocabulary Mandarin speech recognition show that compared with conventional phonetic tied-mixture HMM and state-tied HMM with approximately the same number of Gaussian mixtures, FPTM achieves word error rate reductions by 4.84% and 13.02% respectively. Combining the two schemes of mixing weights pruning and Gaussian centers fuzzy merging, a significantly parameter size reduction was achieved with little impact on recognition accuracy.

Paraspinal Muscle Segmentation in CT Images Using GSM-Based Fuzzy C-Means Clustering

Minimally Invasive Spine surgery (MISS) was developed to treat disorders of the spine with less disruption to the muscles. Surgeons use CT images to monitor the volume of muscles after operation in order to evaluate the progress of patient recovery. The first step in the task is to segment the muscle regions from other tissues/organs in CT images. However, manual segmentation of muscle regions is not only inaccurate, but also time consuming. In this work, Gray Space Map (GSM) is used in fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm to segment muscle regions in CT images. GSM com- bines both spatial and intensity information of pixels. Experiments show that the proposed GSM- based fuzzy c-means clustering muscle CT image segmentation yields very good results.

Automated Colorization of Grayscale Images Using Texture Descriptors and a Modified Fuzzy C-Means Clustering

A novel example-based process for Automated Colorization of grayscale images using Texture Descriptors (ACTD) without any human intervention is proposed. By analyzing a set of sample color images, coherent regions of homogeneous textures are extracted. A multi-channel filtering technique is used for texture-based image segmentation, combined with a modified Fuzzy C-means (FCM) clustering algorithm. This modified FCM clustering algorithm includes both the local spatial information from neighboring pixels, and the spatial Euclidian distance to the cluster’s center of gravity. For each area of interest, state-of-the-art texture descriptors are then computed and stored, along with corresponding color information. These texture descriptors and the color information are used for colorization of a grayscale image with similar textures. Given a grayscale image to be colorized, the segmentation and feature extraction processes are repeated. The texture descriptors are used to perform Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR). The colorization process is performed by Chroma replacement. This research finds numerous applications, ranging from classic film restoration and enhancement, to adding valuable information into medical and satellite imaging. Also, this can be used to enhance the detection of objects from x-ray images at the airports.

Hybrid Clustering Using Firefly Optimization and Fuzzy C-Means Algorithm

Classifying the data into a meaningful group is one of the fundamental ways of understanding and learning the valuable information. High-quality clustering methods are necessary for the valuable and efficient analysis of the increasing data. The Firefly Algorithm (FA) is one of the bio-inspired algorithms and it is recently used to solve the clustering problems. In this paper, Hybrid F-Firefly algorithm is developed by combining the Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) with FA to improve the clustering accuracy with global optimum solution. The Hybrid F-Firefly algorithm is developed by incorporating FCM operator at the end of each iteration in FA algorithm. This proposed algorithm is designed to utilize the goodness of existing algorithm and to enhance the original FA algorithm by solving the shortcomings in the FCM algorithm like the trapping in local optima and sensitive to initial seed points. In this research work, the Hybrid F-Firefly algorithm is implemented and experimentally tested for various performance measures under six different benchmark datasets. From the experimental results, it is observed that the Hybrid F-Firefly algorithm significantly improves the intra-cluster distance when compared with the existing algorithms like K-means, FCM and FA algorithm.

Power interconnected system clustering with advanced fuzzy C-mean algorithm

An advanced fuzzy C-mean(FCM) algorithm was proposed for the efficient regional clustering of multi-nodes interconnected systems.Due to various locational prices and regional coherencies for each node and point,modified similarity measure was considered to gather nodes having similar characteristics.The similarity measure was needed to contain locational prices as well as regional coherency.In order to consider the two properties simultaneously,distance measure of fuzzy C-mean algorithm had to be modified.Regional clustering algorithm for interconnected power systems was designed based on the modified fuzzy C-mean algorithm.The proposed algorithm produces proper classification for the interconnected power system and the results are demonstrated in the example of IEEE 39-bus interconnected electricity system.

基于FCM和EO-SVM水轮机尾水管压力脉动特征识别

为有效识别水轮机尾水管压力脉动特征,提出了一种基于模糊C均值聚类、平衡优化器算法与支持向量机的识别方法。该方法首先采用平衡优化器算法优化SVM的惩罚因子和核函数以获得更好的SVM参数组合,构建EO-SVM识别模型以实现其在水轮机尾水管压力脉动特征识别中的应用。然后采用模糊C均值聚类算法将待分类的压力脉动特征进行初始聚类,将其分为四类,并依据聚类结果选择最靠近每类中心的样本作为EO-SVM模型的训练样本。将SVM和EO-SVM两种模型的识别分类结果进行比较,验证了所提EO-SVM模型的有效性。

基于FCM-LSTM的光热发电出力短期预测

对光热电站的出力进行短期预测,可以有效应对太阳能随机性和波动性带来的影响,为电网调度做好准备.该文以青海某光热电站为例,首先使用模糊C均值聚类算法对预处理后的实验数据进行分类,然后通过分析不同聚类类型下出力和气象数据中各因子间的关联程度,充分挖掘出数据间的关系,确定不同类型预测模型的输入变量,进而构建出不同类别下的长短期记忆神经网络预测模型.结果表明,与传统长短期记忆神经网络模型、BP神经网络模型、支持向量机模型和随机森林模型的预测结果相比,基于模糊C均值聚类的长短期记忆神经网络预测模型效果良好,大幅减少了预测误差,验证了该预测模型的有效性.

一种改进的 Fuzzy c-means 聚类算法

该文提出了一种改进的ｆｕｚｚｙｃ－ｍｅａｎｓ算法（ＭＦＣＭ）。此算法是将传统算法（ＦＣＭ）直接对样本集聚类变为对特征集聚类，从而极大提高了ｆｕｚｚｙｃ－ｍｅａｎｓ的速度。证明了ＭＦＣＭ与ＦＣＭ在分类效果上的等价性，且ＭＦＣＭ较ＦＣＭ有较低的时间复杂性，讨论了ＭＦＣＭ与ＦＣＭ空间复杂性的关系。最后数值实验证实了结论。

基于MS-FCM算法的船体板熔池图像处理技术

熔池的图像处理与特征提取技术是船舶熔化极气体保护焊(gas metal arc welding, GMAW)智能化焊接质量监控的重要内容,针对船体板GMAW焊接过程中的烟雾大、飞溅多等不稳定特性导致熔池图像采集模糊、边缘提取困难等问题,提出一种基于均值漂移(mean shift, MS)优化模糊C均值聚类(fuzzy c-means, FCM)的图像处理算法.在优化设计焊接动态视觉传感系统中,以最大化保证图像信息采集清晰度的基础上,利用MS算法获取超像素图像以解决FCM算法对噪声的敏感性,同时在FCM算法上引入加权邻域窗口,以增强MS-FCM算法的鲁棒性,来克服烟雾、飞溅、弧光等噪声影响,进而完成图像分割与边缘提取.最后,设计出关于FCM、空间约束模糊C均值聚类(fuzzy c-means with spatial constraints, FCM_S)、加强型模糊聚类(enhanced fuzzy c-means, ENFCM)和模糊局部信息C均值聚类(fuzzy local information c-means clustering, FLICM)算法的4种不同图像处理方法,并与MSFCM优化模型进行边缘分割效果对比,获取几种方法所提取的熔宽,验证熔池几何特征的提取精度.结果表明,MS-FCM算法在船舶焊接熔池图像处理方面能有效抑制噪声干扰,平滑信息,达到较高的提取精度.

A New Integrated Fuzzifier Evaluation and Selection (NIFEs) Algorithm for Fuzzy Clustering

Fuzzy C-means (FCM) is simple and widely used for complex data pattern recognition and image analyses. However, selecting an appropriate fuzzifier (m) is crucial in identifying an optimal number of patterns and achieving higher clustering accuracy, which few studies have investigated. Built upon two existing methods on selecting fuzzifier, we developed an integrated fuzzifier evaluation and selection algorithm and tested it using real datasets. Our findings indicate that the consistent optimal number of clusters can be learnt from testing different fuzzifiers for each dataset and the fuzzifier with the lowest value for this consistency should be selected for clustering. Our evaluation also shows that the fuzzifier impacts the clustering accuracy. For longitudinal data with missing values, m = 2 could be an empirical rule to start fuzzy clustering, and the best clustering accuracy was achieved for tested data, especially using our multiple-imputation based fuzzy clustering.

基于空间加权距离的自适应Fuzzy C-Means算法研究

空间聚类不仅应考虑GIS对象属性特征的相似性,还应考虑对象的空间邻近性。不同属性、位置特征在聚类中起到的作用不同。采用信息熵方法计算空间距离中各属性距离、位置距离的权重,权值大小用于度量相应特征在fuzzy c-means隶属度计算时的作用大小,并引入相似性指标,当两个聚类之间的相似度高于某个合并阈值时,则对应的一对聚类进行合并,从而克服需预先设置聚类类数的问题。通过应用实例的聚类有效性分析,与普通空间距离相比,基于空间加权距离的FCM算法具有稳定性和有效性。

基于K-means算法和FCM算法的聚类研究

采用K-means算法和FCM算法实现对47个城市竞争力的聚类分析,选择较为简便的聚类有效性函数用于聚类结果的检验,得到了两种有效的聚类算法的实现方式,并验证该方法的合理性。

FCM测站定权的LAGEOS-2卫星精密定轨影响分析

由于卫星激光测距(satellite laser ranging, SLR)台站的测距精度和稳定性存在差异,精密定轨中需要对不同性能的台站赋予不同权重。本文将模糊C均值(fuzzy C-means, FCM)聚类定权应用于LAGEOS-2精密定轨,并比较原始测站定权和FCM定权对轨道精度的影响。结果表明:1)相较于原始测站定权,FCM定权更能反映各SLR台站的性能,提高定轨精度和观测值数量;2)对于ILRS四个质量分析机构,原始测站定权下JCET发布的质量报告在定轨精度上略优于其他中心,采用FCM定权后,以4个机构发布的质量报告进行定轨的结果在同一水平,轨道精度为4.83~4.86 cm。

基于AVMD与DPC-FCM的旋转机械无监督故障诊断方法

目的 针对旋转机械故障诊断过程中存在故障信号特征提取困难、故障诊断过程有标签数据较少、故障诊断准确率低等问题,提出自适应变分模态分解算法(Adaptive Variational Mode Decomposition,AVMD)与密度峰值算法优化的模糊C均值算法(Clustering by Fast Search and Find of Density Peaks Optimizing Fuzzy C-Means,DPC-FCM)结合的无监督诊断方法。方法 首先,将多尺度排列熵与峭度相结合的综合系数作为适应度函数,对VMD算法的惩罚因子alpha和模态个数K进行参数寻优,提取分解后本征模态函数(Intrinsic Mode Function,IMF)的平均样本熵与平均模糊熵,并输入至聚类算法中。其次,提出利用密度峰值聚类算法确定FCM的初始聚类中心,降低聚类结果的随机性。结果 将提出的无监督故障诊断模型应用到滚动轴承试验信号中,实现了准确的故障诊断。结论 AVMD在故障提取方面具有优越性,同时DPC算法可以有效提高FCM算法无监督聚类的准确性,二者结合可以有效实现旋转机械故障的智能分类。

Study on the Development and Implementation of Different Big Data Clustering Methods

Clustering is an unsupervised learning method used to organize raw data in such a way that those with the same (similar) characteristics are found in the same class and those that are dissimilar are found in different classes. In this day and age, the very rapid increase in the amount of data being produced brings new challenges in the analysis and storage of this data. Recently, there is a growing interest in key areas such as real-time data mining, which reveal an urgent need to process very large data under strict performance constraints. The objective of this paper is to survey four algorithms including K-Means algorithm, FCM algorithm, EM algorithm and BIRCH, used for data clustering and then show their strengths and weaknesses. Another task is to compare the results obtained by applying each of these algorithms to the same data and to give a conclusion based on these results.