Developing health indicators and RUL prognostics for systems with few failure instances and varying operating conditions using a LSTM autoencoder. de Pater, I. & Mitici, M. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 117:105582, January, 2023. ![Developing health indicators and RUL prognostics for systems with few failure instances and varying operating conditions using a LSTM autoencoder [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex Most Remaining Useful Life (RUL) prognostics are obtained using supervised learning models trained with many labelled data samples (i.e., the true RUL is known). In aviation, however, aircraft systems are often preventively replaced before failure. There are thus very few labelled data samples available. We therefore propose a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) autoencoder with attention to develop health indicators for an aircraft system instead. This autoencoder is trained with unlabelled data samples (i.e., the true RUL is unknown). Since aircraft fly under various operating conditions (varying altitude, speed, etc.), these conditions are also integrated in the autoencoder. We show that the consideration of the operating conditions leads to robust health indicators and improves significantly the monotonicity, trendability and prognosability of these indicators. These health indicators are further used to predict the RUL of the aircraft system using a similarity-based matching approach. We illustrate our approach for turbofan engines. We show that the consideration of the operating conditions improves the monotonicity of the health indicators by 97%. Also, our approach leads to accurate RUL estimates with a Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) of 2.67 flights only. Moreover, a 19% reduction in the RMSE is obtained using our approach in comparison to existing supervised learning models.
@article{de_pater_developing_2023,
title = {Developing health indicators and {RUL} prognostics for systems with few failure instances and varying operating conditions using a {LSTM} autoencoder},
volume = {117},
issn = {0952-1976},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0952197622005723},
doi = {10.1016/j.engappai.2022.105582},
abstract = {Most Remaining Useful Life (RUL) prognostics are obtained using supervised learning models trained with many labelled data samples (i.e., the true RUL is known). In aviation, however, aircraft systems are often preventively replaced before failure. There are thus very few labelled data samples available. We therefore propose a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) autoencoder with attention to develop health indicators for an aircraft system instead. This autoencoder is trained with unlabelled data samples (i.e., the true RUL is unknown). Since aircraft fly under various operating conditions (varying altitude, speed, etc.), these conditions are also integrated in the autoencoder. We show that the consideration of the operating conditions leads to robust health indicators and improves significantly the monotonicity, trendability and prognosability of these indicators. These health indicators are further used to predict the RUL of the aircraft system using a similarity-based matching approach. We illustrate our approach for turbofan engines. We show that the consideration of the operating conditions improves the monotonicity of the health indicators by 97\%. Also, our approach leads to accurate RUL estimates with a Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) of 2.67 flights only. Moreover, a 19\% reduction in the RMSE is obtained using our approach in comparison to existing supervised learning models.},
language = {en},
urldate = {2023-06-07},
journal = {Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence},
author = {de Pater, Ingeborg and Mitici, Mihaela},
month = jan,
year = {2023},
keywords = {Attention, Autoencoder, Health indicators, Remaining Useful Life prognostics, Unlabelled data samples, Varying operating conditions},
pages = {105582},
}
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