Research Article

A Morphological Filtering Method Based on Particle Swarm Optimization for Railway Vehicle Bearing Fault Diagnosis

Table 6

The kurtosis values of collected operations of the outer-race fault signal.

OperatorKurtosis

Dilation1.33
Morphological gradient (MG)2.61
Open1.13
Difference filter (DIF)2.76
White top-hat transform (WTH)3.38
Close-open (CO)0.86
Combination morphological filter (CMF)0.94
Combination morphological filter hat (CMFH)2.33
Erosion1.02
Close1.07
Close and open average (AC&O)0.98
Black top-hat transform (BTH)6.39
Combination of WTH and positive BTH (CWTH&PBTH)1.32
Open-close (OC)0.98
CO and OC gradient (GCO&OC)3.01
Morphology gradient product operation (MGPO)4.56