Abstract:The ball screw, serving as a high-precision component that converts rotary motion into linear motion and vice versa, finds extensive applications in machinery such as machine tools, automobiles, aerospace, and other mechanical equipment. Its health status has a significant impact on the performance and quality of equipment. Focusing on the characteristics of the vibration signals of the ball screw, a comprehensive re-view of signal processing and intelligent diagnostic methods for faults in the ball screw is presented. The characteristic analysis methods of the vibration signal in the ball screw are introduced, including time-domain analysis and basis expansion methods. The intelligent fault classification methods for the ball screw are discussed, including support vector machines, backpropagation neural networks, and convolu-tional neural networks. A summary of the current research status on the vibration signal processing meth-ods and fault diagnosis of the ball screw pair is provided, along with a prospective discussion on potential future directions.