Remaining useful life prediction of machinery under time-varying operating conditions based on a two-factor state-space model

Naipeng Li, Nagi Gebraeel, Yaguo Lei, Linkan Bian and Xiaosheng Si

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2019, vol. 186, issue C, 88-100

Abstract: The growth of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has generated a renewed emphasis on research of prognostic degradation modeling whereby degradation signals, such as vibration signals, temperature and acoustic emissions, are used to estimate the state-of-health and predict the remaining useful life (RUL). Besides the inherent system state, external operating conditions, such as the rotational speed and load also play a significant role in the behavior of degradation signals. Time-varying operating conditions often cause two major effects on the degradation signals. First, they change the degradation rate of systems. Second, they cause signal jumps at condition change-points. These two factors make RUL prediction more difficult under time-varying operating conditions. This paper proposes a RUL prediction method by introducing these two factors into a state-space model. Changes in the degradation rate are introduced into a state transition function, and jumps in the degradation signals are introduced into a measurement function. The separate analysis of these two factors makes it possible to distinguish their own contributions to RUL prediction, thus avoiding false alarms and improving the prediction accuracy. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated using both a simulation study and an accelerated degradation test of rolling element bearings.

Keywords: Prognostic degradation modeling; Remaining useful life prediction; Time-varying operating conditions; State-space model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2019.02.017

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