Cui Xuemiao, Lu Jiping, Han Yafeng
School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.
Sensors (Basel). 2023 Dec 27;24(1):165. doi: 10.3390/s24010165.
Recently, the estimation of remaining useful life (RUL) for two-phase nonlinear degrading devices has shown rising momentum for ensuring their safe and reliable operation. The degradation processes of such systems are influenced by the temporal variability, unit-to-unit variability, and measurement variability jointly. However, current studies only consider these three sources of variability partially. To this end, this paper presents a two-phase nonlinear degradation model with three-source variability based on the nonlinear Wiener process. Then, the approximate analytical solution of the RUL with three-source variability is derived under the concept of the first passage time (FPT). For better implementation, the offline model parameter estimation is conducted by the maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), and the Bayesian rule in conjunction with the Kalman filtering (KF) algorithm are utilized for the online model updating. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed approach is validated through a numerical example and a practical case study of the capacitor degradation data. The results show that it is necessary to incorporate three-source variability simultaneously into the RUL prediction of the two-phase nonlinear degrading systems.
近年来,为确保两相非线性退化设备的安全可靠运行,对其剩余使用寿命(RUL)的估计已呈现出上升趋势。此类系统的退化过程受到时间变异性、单元间变异性和测量变异性的共同影响。然而,当前研究仅部分考虑了这三种变异性来源。为此,本文提出了一种基于非线性维纳过程的具有三源变异性的两相非线性退化模型。然后,在首达时间(FPT)概念下推导了具有三源变异性的RUL的近似解析解。为了更好地实现,通过最大似然估计(MLE)进行离线模型参数估计,并利用贝叶斯规则结合卡尔曼滤波(KF)算法进行在线模型更新。最后,通过数值示例和电容器退化数据的实际案例研究验证了所提方法的有效性。结果表明,有必要将三源变异性同时纳入两相非线性退化系统的RUL预测中。