Unsupervised Physics-Informed Health Indicator Estimation for Complex Systems
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Developing Health Indicators (HI) is a crucial aspect of prognostics and health management of complex systems. Previous research has demonstrated the benefits of accurately determining the HI, which can lead to better performance of prognostic models. However, the existing methodologies for determining HI in complex systems are mostly semi-supervised and rely on assumptions that may not hold in real-world scenarios. The existing methods usually involve using a reference set of healthy sensor readings or run-to-failure data to infer HI. But the unsupervised inference of HI from sensor readings, which is challenging in scenarios where diverse operating conditions can mask the effect of degradation on sensor readings, has not been extensively researched. In this paper, we propose a novel physics-informed unsupervised model for determining HI. Unlike previous methods, constrained by assumptions, the proposed method uses prior general knowledge about degradation to infer HI, thereby eliminating the need for a reference set of healthy sensor readings. The proposed unsupervised model is an Autoencoder that incorporates constraints on its latent space to ensure consistency with knowledge about degradation. We assess the efficacy of the proposed model by analyzing a prevalent prognostic case study, specifically the turbofan engine dataset (N-CMAPSS). Our analysis considers the model's sensitivity to data availability and the resulting Health Index's quality, including trendability and monotonicity. Additionally, we investigate the impact of incorporating the Health Index in predicting Remaining Useful Life (RUL). We demonstrate that our proposed method generates a Health Index that exhibits greater monotonicity and trendability than the current state-of-the-art semi-supervised approach. Moreover, our approach for identifying the Health Index leads to enhanced prognostic performance compared to the existing semi-supervised approach.
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Prognostics, Health Index, Unsupervised Learning
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