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In this paper, a fault diagnosis method based on refined composite multiscale reverse dispersion entropy (RCMRDE) and random forest is developed. Firstly, rolling bearing vibration signals are adaptively decomposed by variational mode decomposition (VMD), and then the RCMRDE values of 25 scales are calculated for original signal and each decomposed component as the initial feature set. Secondly, based on the joint mutual information maximization (JMIM) algorithm, the top 15 sensitive features are selected as a new feature set and feed into random forest model to identify bearing health status. Finally, to verify the effectiveness and superiority of the presented method, actual data acquisition and analysis are performed on the bearing fault diagnosis experimental platform. These results indicate that the presented method can precisely diagnose bearing fault types and damage degree, and the average identification accuracy rate is 97.33%. Compared with the refine composite multiscale dispersion entropy (RCMDE) and multiscale dispersion entropy (MDE), the fault diagnosis accuracy is improved by 2.67% and 8.67%, respectively. Furthermore, compared with the RCMRDE method without VMD decomposition, the fault diagnosis accuracy is improved by 3.67%. Research results prove that a better feature extraction technique is proposed, which can effectively overcome the deficiency of existing entropy and significantly enhance the ability of fault identification.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22052046","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,6]],"date-time":"2022-03-06T20:40:02Z","timestamp":1646599202000},"page":"2046","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["Intelligent Diagnosis of Rolling Element Bearing Based on Refined Composite Multiscale Reverse Dispersion Entropy and Random Forest"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Aiqiang","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zuye","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Microcyber Corporation, Shenyang 110179, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hongkun","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chaoge","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Logistics Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xuejun","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"450","DOI":"10.1016\/j.knosys.2018.09.004","article-title":"Intelligent fault diagnosis of rotating machinery using improved multiscale dispersion entropy and mRMR feature selection","volume":"163","author":"Yan","year":"2019","journal-title":"Knowl.-Based Syst."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"106683","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ymssp.2020.106683","article-title":"A deep learning method for bearing fault diagnosis based on Cyclic Spectral Coherence and Convolutional Neural Networks","volume":"140","author":"Chen","year":"2020","journal-title":"Mech. 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