A new health state assessment method based on interpretable belief rule base with bimetric balance

Xiuxian Yin, Wei He, You Cao, Ning Ma, Guohui Zhou and Hongyu Li

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2024, vol. 242, issue C

Abstract: Health state assessment is an important way to maintain system safety. The belief rule base (BRB) is a rule-based model that embeds expert knowledge and has the advantage of interpretability. However, BRB-based models face two problems in interpretability: Lack of reasonable methods to improve the interpretability of the optimization phase and BRB that only considers accuracy tends to favor black-box models. To address the above two problems for developing a highly interpretable model, this paper proposes a new health state assessment method based on interpretable BRB with bimetric balance (IBRB-b). First, interpretability criteria for health state assessment are proposed, and based on the fact that some interpretability criteria may be broken in the optimization process, two interpretable maintenance strategies were developed. Second, the reliability calculation method of expert knowledge is given and considered in the interpretable optimization methods. In addition, the bimetric-oriented population selection method is proposed to balance the accuracy and interpretability of the BRB model. In the case study, the effectiveness and superiority of the IBRB-b method were analyzed and verified through the health state assessment experiments of NASA lithium-ion batteries and milling.

Keywords: Health state assessment; Belief rule base (BRB); Interpretability; Expert knowledge reliability; Bimetric balance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2023.109744

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