Detection of ice states from mechanical vibrations using entropy measurements and machine learning algorithms

Entropy measurements are an accessible tool to perform irregularity and uncertainty measurements present in time series. Particularly in the area of signal processing, Multiscale Permutation Entropy (MPE) is presented as a characterization methodology capable of measuring randomness and non-linear dynamics present in non-stationary signals, such as mechanical vibrations. In this article, we present a robust methodology based on MPE for detection of Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) states. The MPE is combined with Principal Component Analysis (PCA) as a technique for visualization and feature selection and KNearest Neighbors (KNN) as a supervised classifier. The proposed methodology is validated by comparing accuracy and computation time with others presented in the literature. The results allow to appreciate a high effectiveness in the detection of failures in bearings (experiment 1) and ICE states (experiment 2) with a low computational consumption.