Method and system for acoustic based industrial machine inspection using das-beamforming and dictionary learning

Abstract

This disclosure relates generally to a field of industrial machine inspection, and, more particularly, to method and system for acoustic based industrial machine inspection using Delay-and-Sum beamforming (DAS-BF) and dictionary learning (DL). The disclosed method presents a two-stage approach for anomaly detection using a multi-channel acoustic mixed signal. In the first stage, separation of a plurality of acoustic signals corresponding to the spatially distributed acoustic sources is performed at a coarser level by using the DAS-BF. Subsequently, dictionaries pre-trained using the plurality of acoustic signals of the individual source machines are utilized for generating a plurality of separated acoustic source signals. The generated plurality of separated acoustic source signals are analyzed for the anomaly detection by comparing them with a corresponding normal machine sound template.