Contrastive domain-invariant generalization for remaining useful life prediction under diverse conditions and fault modes

Xiaoqi Xiao, Jianguo Zhang and Dan Xu

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2025, vol. 253, issue C

Abstract: As industrial equipment becomes increasingly complex, necessitating operation under varied conditions and often exhibiting diverse failure modes, traditional deep learning models built on data from the original environment become inapplicable. Moreover, in actual industrial scenarios, the generalization capability of Domain Adaptation and classic Domain Generalization methods is severely impacted when there is a lack of multiple source domain and target domain data, due to the cost or feasibility constraints associated with collecting extensive monitoring data. In this paper, a single domain Contrastive Domain-Invariant Generalization (CDIG) method for estimating the remaining useful life under different conditions and fault modes is proposed. This method first defines homologous signals as the foundational data. Subsequently, it learns domain-invariant features by encouraging two feature extraction processes to extract latent features of homologous signals as similarly as possible. Additionally, multiple condition-based attention, pooling, and a novel equalization loss function are utilized to regulate the generation of domain-invariant features. Ultimately, the RUL predictor is trained by source domain data, operational conditions, and temporal information to facilitate its applicability across diverse domains. Case studies demonstrate that CDIG achieves satisfactory predictive results under unseen conditions, highlighting the potential of the proposed method as an effective predictive tool.

Keywords: Domain generalization; Remaining useful life; Condition-based attention; Contrastive learning; Unseen conditions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2024.110534

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