Data-Driven Remaining Useful Life Prediction Considering Sensor Anomaly Detection and Data Recovery

Prognostics and health management (PHM) is being adopted more and more in the modern engineering systems. As one of the most important technologies in the PHM domain, remaining useful life (RUL) prediction has attracted much attention from the researchers in the scholar and industrial field. Although many methods have been proposed to improve the prediction result, the problem of sensor anomaly detection and data recovery has not been considered together. To achieve this object, the data-driven RUL prediction framework considering sensor anomaly detection and data recovery is proposed, which is expected to improve the performance of RUL prediction caused by sensor anomaly. The selected sensor data are first detected to decide whether they are anomalous. If the data of this selected sensor are normal, they are continuously adopted as the input of the RUL prediction algorithm. But, if the data are anomalous, they will be recovered by the related algorithm. The recovered data will be utilized as the input of the RUL prediction algorithm. In the proposed framework, mutual information, Kernel principal component analysis (KPCA), least square-support vector machine (LS-SVM), and Gaussian process regression (GPR) are utilized. Both simulation data and practical data are used to evaluate the performance of the proposed method. Compared with abandoning the anomalous sensor data, the recovered data can indeed help to enhance the RUL prediction result.