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ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA ›› 2015, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (2): 555-563.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2014.0257

• Solid Mechanics and Vehicle Conceptual Design • Previous Articles     Next Articles

Real-time residual life prediction based on semi-stochastic filter and expectation maximization algorithm

FENG Lei1, WANG Hongli1, SI Xiaosheng1, YANG Xiaojun1, WANG Biaobiao2   

  1. 1. The Second Artillery Engineering College, Xi'an 710025, China;
    2. Unit 96275, Luoyang 471003, China
  • Received:2013-12-30 Revised:2014-09-15 Online:2015-02-15 Published:2014-09-19
  • Supported by:

    National Natural Science Foundation of China (61174030, 61304240, 61374126, 61473094); China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2014M552589)

Abstract:

The prediction of residual life (RL) is the key of the predictive maintenance for engineering equipment. Accurate and real-time prediction can provide more effective decision support to the subsequent maintenance schedule and avoid the failure effectively. In engineering practice, the performance index reflecting the degradation process of the equipment is generally not observed directly. To tackle the residual life problem under hidden degradation, a prediction method based on semi-stochastic and expectation maximization (EM) algorithm is proposed in this paper. First, the residual life is taken as the hidden state and the prediction model is constructed by building the stochastic relationship between the residual life and monitoring data. Secondly, based on the monitoring data up to the current time, a collaborative method by the extended Kalman filter (EKF) and expectation maximization algorithm is presented to achieve a real-time estimation and updating of the residual life distribution and unknown model parameters. Finally, the proposed method is validated by the application to the inertial measurement unit (IMU) and the results indicate that the method can improve the accuracy and reduce the uncertainty of the estimated residual life.

Key words: residual life, prediction, semi-stochastic filter, expectation maximization, extended Kalman filter

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