System for acquiring a vibratory signal of a rotary motor

1. A system for acquiring a vibratory signal for troubleshooting a rotary motor, comprising:

input means for receiving a temporal vibratory signal of said motor and at least one current rotational speed of at least one shaft of said motor; and

sampling means for sampling of said temporal vibratory signal in real time with at least one sampling signal synchronised with said at least one current rotational speed thus generating a corresponding synchronous vibratory signal, said sampling signal being configured with a predefined maximum harmonic ratio and a predefined sampling ratio.

2. A system according to claim 1 , further comprising a buffer for buffering a sample of a predefined number of periods of said synchronous vibratory signal, a temporal length of said buffer being determined according to a minimum harmonic ratio.

3. A system according to claim 2 , further comprising computing means for retrieving, from said buffered sample, frequency signals at multiple harmonics of the minimum harmonic and frequencies proportional to the corresponding current rotational speed.

4. A system according to claim 3 , wherein the computing means is configured to retrieve said frequency signals by multiplying said buffered sample with Fourier coefficients of only the harmonics to be retrieved.

5. A system for monitoring a rotary motor, comprising:

the system according to claim 3 ; and

analysis means for analysing the frequency signal(s) in order to troubleshoot a status of the motor.

6. A system according to claim 1 , wherein:

the input means is configured to receive first and second current rotational speeds relative to first and second shafts of said motor respectively, and

the sampling means is configured to directly generate first and second synchronous vibratory signals by sampling said temporal signal in real time with, respectively, a first sampling signal synchronised with said first current rotational speed, and a second sampling signal synchronised with said second current rotational speed.

7. A system according to claim 6 , wherein the sampling means is configured to directly generate a third synchronous vibratory signal by sampling said temporal vibratory signal in real time with a third sampling signal synchronised with the sum or the difference of said first and second current rotational speeds, said third sampling signal being reconstituted from a trigonometric combination of said first and second sampling signals.

8. A system according to claim 7 , further comprising first, second, and third buffers for buffering respectively, a first sample of a predefined number of periods of said first synchronous vibratory signal, a second sample of a predefined number of periods of said second synchronous vibratory signal, and a third sample of a predefined number of periods of said third synchronous vibratory signal, and

wherein the computing means is configured to respectively retrieve from said first, second, and third buffered samples, first frequency signals at frequencies proportional to said first current rotational speed, second frequency signals at frequencies proportional to said second current rotational speed, and third frequency signals at frequencies proportional to said sum or difference of said first and second current rotational speeds.

9. A method for acquiring a vibratory signal for troubleshooting a rotary motor, comprising:

receiving a temporal vibratory signal from said motor and at least one current rotational speed of at least one shaft of said motor; and

sampling said temporal vibratory signal in real time with at least one sampling signal synchronised with said at least one current rotational speed for generating a corresponding synchronous vibratory signal, said sampling signal being configured by a predefined maximum harmonic ratio and a predefined sampling ratio.