Data-Driven Prognostics Incorporating Environmental Factors for Aircraft Maintenance

Data-Driven Prognostics Incorporating Environmental Factors for Aircraft Maintenance

Bieber, M.T. (TU Delft Air Transport & Operations)
Verhagen, W.J.C. (TU Delft Air Transport & Operations; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University)
Santos, Bruno F. (TU Delft Air Transport & Operations)

2021

During flights aircraft continuously collect data regarding operations, health status and system condition. Data-driven approaches typically applied to system specific sensor data provide a way to predict failures of aircraft systems. However, it is believed that some systems deteriorate faster when subjected to particular environmental conditions, such as humidity or dust. In this study, we consider an aircraft system which is suspected to experience degradation due to humidity during ground operations. We apply a Random Forest approach to sensor data only and a combination of sensor data and environmental data from airports to estimate the system's remaining useful life. To our knowledge this is the first paper addressing the problem of integrating environmental data in prognostics for aircraft systems using raw sensor data. The method is validated on a data set provided by an airline that includes the per-second sensor data of 11 different sensors for roughly 12,300 flights, as well as 15 removals. Meteorological data for airports worldwide is obtained from the Meteorological Aerodrome Reports database. The results show that incorporating environmental data in prognostics has a potential towards more accurate prediction models.

condition-based maintenance
prognostics
aircraft maintenance
RUL
environmental data

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:1c4f8e69-f3d7-46b4-b161-b63dcb102793

https://doi.org/10.1109/RAMS48097.2021.9605715

IEEE

2022-05-31

978-1-7281-8018-2

67th Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, RAMS 2021: Proceedings

2021 Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS), 2021-05-24 → 2021-05-27, Orlando, United States

Proceedings - Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, 0149-144X, 2021-May

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© 2021 M.T. Bieber, W.J.C. Verhagen, Bruno F. Santos