In systems for monitoring, diagnostics and recognition of the state of various types of objects, an important aspect is the reduction of the volume of measured signal data for its transmission or accumulation in information bases with the ability to restore it without significant distortion. A special type of signals in this case are packet signals, which represent sets of harmonics with multiple frequencies and are truly periodic with a clearly distinguishable period. Signals of this type are typical for mechanical, electromechanical systems with rotating elements: reducers, gearboxes, electric motors, internal combustion engines, etc. The article considers a number of models for reducing these signals and cases of priority application of each of them. In particular, the following are highlighted: the discrete Fourier transform model with a modified formula for restoring a continuous signal, the proposed model based on decomposition by bordering functions and the discrete cosine transform model. The first two models ideally provide absolute accuracy of signal restoration after reduction, the last one refers to reduction models with information loss. The main criteria for evaluating the models are: computational complexity of the implemented transformations, the degree of implemented signal reduction, and the error in restoring the signal from the reduced data. It was found that in the case of application to packet signals, each of the listed models can be used, the choice being determined by the priority indicators of the reduction assessment. The application of the considered reduction models is possible in information and measuring systems for monitoring the state, diagnostics, and control of the above-mentioned objects.

Keywords: reduction model, measured packet signal, discrete cosine transform, decomposition into bordering functions, reduction quality assessment, information-measuring system

In operational diagnostics and recognition of states of complex technical systems, an important task is to identify small time-determined changes in complex measured diagnostic signals of the controlled object. For these purposes, the signal is transformed into a small-sized image in the diagnostic feature space, moving along trajectories of different shapes, depending on the nature and magnitude of the changes. It is important to identify stable and deterministic patterns of changes in these complex-shaped diagnostic signals. Identification of such patterns largely depends on the principles of constructing a small-sized feature space. In the article, the space of decomposition coefficients of the measured signal in the adaptive orthonormal basis of canonical transformations is considered as such a space. In this case, the basis is constructed based on a representative sample of realizations of the controlled signal for various states of the system using the proposed algorithm. The identified shapes of the trajectories of the images correspond to specific types of deterministic changes in the signal. Analytical functional dependencies were discovered linking a specific type of signal change with the shape of the trajectory of the image in the feature space. The proposed approach, when used, simplifies modeling, operational diagnostics and condition monitoring during the implementation of, for example, low-frequency diagnostics and defectoscopy of structures, vibration diagnostics, monitoring of the stress state of an object by analyzing the time characteristics of response functions to impact.

Keywords: modeling, functional dependencies, state recognition, diagnostic image, image movement trajectories, small changes in diagnostic signals, canonical decomposition basis, analytical description of image trajectory

A new mathematical apparatus is proposed for monitoring the adequacy of the choice of signal sampling interval from the point of view of taking into account the main high-frequency components and identifying the possibilities of increasing it. It is based on the construction of special aliasing grams based on measured signal samples. Aliasing grams are graphs of standard deviations of the amplitude spectra of a conventionally reference discrete signal, specified with the highest sampling frequency, and auxiliary discrete signals obtained over the same observation interval, but with lower sampling frequencies. By analyzing such graphs, it is easy to identify sampling frequencies that lead to the appearance of the aliasing effect in the case of sampling, and, consequently, to distortion of the signal spectrum. To speed up and simplify the construction of aliasinggrams, it is proposed to use as auxiliary signals obtained from the reference one by thinning. It has been shown that this device is also effective in the case of the spectrum spreading effect. It can be used in self-learning measuring systems.

Keywords: sampling interval, aliasing, amplitude spectrum, aliasing-gram, sample decimation, spectrum spreading