A Deep Learning Based Data Fusion Method for Degradation Modeling and Prognostics

Abstract

Degradation modeling is critical for system prognostics and evolution mechanism analysis. This paper introduces a deep learning-based data fusion method for constructing a health index (HI) through the fusion of multiple sensor signals. The proposed method leverages adversarial networks and an RMSprop-based sampling algorithm to model nonlinear relations and improve the stability of the algorithm. Simulation studies and a case study on aircraft engine degradation demonstrate significant improvements in remaining useful life (RUL) prediction over existing methods.

Publication
IEEE Transactions on Reliability
Juan Du
Juan Du
Assistant Professor

My research interests include knowledge-infused data science for quality improvement, industrial data analytics and machine learning, and system informatics and control for manufacturing applications.