Title
Degradation Data-Driven Remaining Useful Life Estimation in the Absence of Prior Degradation Knowledge
Abstract
AbstractRecent developments in prognostic and health management have been targeted at utilizing the observed degradation signals to estimate residual life distributions. Current degradation models mainly focus on a population of “identical” devices or an individual device with population information, not a single component in the absence of prior degradation knowledge. However, the fast development of science and technology provides us with many kinds of new systems, and we just have the real-time monitoring information to analyze the reliability for them. The fusion algorithm presented herein addresses this challenge by combining the excellent modeling ability of Bayesian updating method for the multilevel data and the prominent estimation ability of ECM algorithm for incomplete data. Residual life distributions and posterior distributions are first calculated through the Bayesian updating method based on random initial a priori distributions. Then the a priori distributions are revised and improved for future predictions by the ECM algorithm. Once a new signal is observed, we can reuse the fusion algorithm to improve the accuracy of residual life distributions. The applicability of this fusion algorithm is validated by a set of simulation experiments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1155/2017/4375690
Periodicals
Field
DocType
Volume
Population,Residual,Data mining,Bayesian inference,Data-driven,Reuse,A priori and a posteriori,Degradation (geology),Control engineering,Mathematics
Journal
2017
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1687-5249
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
4
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yong Yu1393.86
C. H. Chang242836.69
Xiao-Sheng Si362346.17
Jian-Xun Zhang4496.42