ARC: Alignment-based RPM Estimation with Curvature-adaptive Tracking
arXiv:2603.29354v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tacho-less rotational speed estimation is critical for vibration-based prognostics and health management (PHM) of rotating machinery, yet traditional methods--such as time-domain periodicity, cepstrum, and harmonic comb matching--struggle under noise, non-stationarity, and inharmonic interference. Probabilistic tracking offers a principled way to fuse multiple estimators, but a major challenge is that heterogeneous estimators produce evidence on incompatible axes and scales. We address this with ARC (Alignment-based RPM Estimation with Curvature-adaptive Tracking) by unifying the observation representation. Each estimator outputs a one-dimensional evidence curve on its native axis, which is mapped onto a shared RPM grid and converted into a c
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Abstract:Tacho-less rotational speed estimation is critical for vibration-based prognostics and health management (PHM) of rotating machinery, yet traditional methods--such as time-domain periodicity, cepstrum, and harmonic comb matching--struggle under noise, non-stationarity, and inharmonic interference. Probabilistic tracking offers a principled way to fuse multiple estimators, but a major challenge is that heterogeneous estimators produce evidence on incompatible axes and scales. We address this with ARC (Alignment-based RPM Estimation with Curvature-adaptive Tracking) by unifying the observation representation. Each estimator outputs a one-dimensional evidence curve on its native axis, which is mapped onto a shared RPM grid and converted into a comparable grid-based log-likelihood via robust standardization and a Gibbs-form energy shaping. Standard recursive filtering with fixed-variance motion priors can fail under multi-modal or ambiguous evidence. To overcome this, ARC introduces a curvature-informed, state-dependent motion prior, where the transition variance is derived from the local discrete Hessian of the previous log-posterior. This design enforces smooth tracking around confident modes while preserving competing hypotheses, such as octave alternatives. Experiments on synthetic stress tests and real vibration-table data demonstrate stable, physically plausible trajectories with interpretable uncertainty, and ablations confirm that these gains arise from uncertainty-aware temporal propagation rather than per-frame peak selection or ad hoc rules.
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Signal Processing (eess.SP); Systems and Control (eess.SY); Methodology (stat.ME)
Cite as: arXiv:2603.29354 [eess.SP]
(or arXiv:2603.29354v1 [eess.SP] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.29354
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From: Changyu Hao [view email] [v1] Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:26:26 UTC (263 KB)
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