Remainig useful life prediction via empirical mode decomposition, wavelets and support vector machine

The useful life time of equipment is an important variable related to reliability and maintenance. The knowledge about the useful remaining life of operation system by means of a prognostic and health monitoring could lead to competitive advantage to the corporations. There are numbers of models try...

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Autor: SOUTO MAIOR, Caio Bezerra
Tipo de documento: Tesis de maestría
Estado:Published version
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:Brasil
Institución:UFPE
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UFPE
Lenguaje:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ufpe.br:123456789/24930
Acceso en línea:https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/24930
Nivel de acceso:Acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Engenharia de Produção
Prognostic and health monitoring
Empirical mode Decomposition
Wavelets support vector machine
Remaining useful life
Reliability prediction
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Sumario:The useful life time of equipment is an important variable related to reliability and maintenance. The knowledge about the useful remaining life of operation system by means of a prognostic and health monitoring could lead to competitive advantage to the corporations. There are numbers of models trying to predict the reliability’s variable behavior, such as the remaining useful life, from different types of signal (e.g. vibration signal), however several could not be realistic due to the imposed simplifications. An alternative to those models are the learning methods, used when exist many observations about the variable. A well-known method is Support Vector Machine (SVM), with the advantage that is not necessary previous knowledge about neither the function’s behavior nor the relation between input and output. In order to achieve the best SVM’s parameters, a Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm is coupled to enhance the solution. Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) and Wavelets rise as two preprocessing methods seeking to improve the input data analysis. In this paper, EMD and wavelets are used coupled with PSO+SVM to predict the rolling bearing Remaining Useful Life (RUL) from a vibration signal and compare with the prediction without any preprocessing technique. As conclusion, EMD models presented accurate predictions and outperformed the other models tested.