Combining multiple deep learning algorithms for prognostic and health management of aircraft

The development of airborne sensor monitoring and artificial intelligence technologies provides effective tools for precise prognostic and health management (PHM) of aircraft. This paper presents a PHM model which combines multiple deep learning algorithms for condition assessment, fault classification, sensor prediction, and remaining useful life (RUL) estimation of aircraft systems. A long short-term memory (LSTM) based recurrent network is used to predict multiple multivariate time series of sensors, and deep belief network (DBN) is applied to assess system condition and classify faults of aircraft systems. Then, the RUL can be estimated through the integration of condition assessment and sensor prediction. Finally, the proposed algorithm is validated experimentally using NASA's C-MAPSS dataset, and the results showed a lower error rate and deviation than traditional models. (C) 2019 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.