The teeth of planetary gear trains are prone to wear and can be damaged. In traditional wear monitoring, the equipment needs to be disassembled, and the efficiency is low. The wear debris in lubricating oil can provide
information about machine wear. On-line oil monitoring technology can easily recognize the change of wear
debris concentration in the gearbox oil pan without the need for disassembling equipment. However, existing on
line monitoring systems are often based on wear debris concentration, providing limited information on particle
shape and type, which are important for root cause analysis.