RESEARCH PAPER
Optimal Imperfect Predictive Maintenance Based on Interval Remaining Useful
Life Prediction
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School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, China
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College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Submission date: 2024-11-22
Final revision date: 2025-01-14
Acceptance date: 2025-03-28
Online publication date: 2025-04-02
Publication date: 2025-04-02
Corresponding author
Chun Su
School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, China, Nanjing, China
HIGHLIGHTS
- A PdM framework combines interval RUL prediction with maintenance policy optimization
- BiTCN with multi-head attention significantly improves RUL prediction accuracy
- ABKDE is used to estimate the prediction uncertainty
- DCS optimizes hyperparameters of RUL prediction model and decision variables of PdM
- Case studies demonstrate outstanding performance of the proposed approach
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ABSTRACT
Predictive maintenance is essential in prognostics and health management, where prediction of remaining useful life (RUL) plays a key role. However, various challenges exist in deep learning-based RUL prediction models, including hyperparameter tuning, uncertainty, and applying RUL for maintenance. To address such issues, this paper proposes a novel PdM framework by combining interval RUL prediction with maintenance policy optimization. A bidirectional temporal convolutional network with multi-head attention method is adopted for RUL prediction, and a physical model can integrate the predicted RUL intervals for maintenance decision-making. Moreover, the differential creative search algorithm is introduced to optimize hyperparameters and decision maintenance variables. A case study is conducted with the C-MPASS aero engine dataset. The results show that the proposed model can reduce RMSE by over 3.20% and 3.68% on the FD002 and FD004 datasets, respectively. Sensitivity analysis also confirms its robust performance despite the variations in maintenance costs or times.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 72471055) and the China Scholarship Council.