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Faults, such as the translation of the central disc along the shaft, the disc eccentricity, and defects on the motor reducer position or timing belt mounting position, are imposed. Time and frequency domain features, extracted from the vibration signal, are used as predictors in fault detection. This task is modeled as a multi-class classification problem, where the classes correspond to eight health states: one healthy and seven faulty. Data analysis, using unsupervised and supervised algorithms, provides significant insights (relevance of features, correlation between features, classification difficulties, data visualization) into the initial dataset, a balanced one. The experiments are performed using classifiers from MATLAB and six feature sets. 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