PhD Symposium - Interpretable and Uncertainty-Aware Hybrid Prognostics Using Multimodal Knowledge for RUL Prediction

Conference Paper (2025)
Author(s)

Dario Goglio (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering, Zurich University of Applied Science (ZHAW))

Dimitrios Zarouchas (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)

Manuel Arias Chao (Zurich University of Applied Science (ZHAW), TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)

Research Group
Operations & Environment
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.36001/phmconf.2025.v17i1.4605 Final published version
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Publication Year
2025
Language
English
Research Group
Operations & Environment
Publisher
Prognostics and Health Management Society
ISBN (print)
9781936263295
Event
17th Annual Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society, PHM 2025 (2025-10-25 - 2025-10-30), Bellevue, United States
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Abstract

Unforeseen technical failures contribute significantly to airline delays, highlighting the need for predictive maintenance. However, developing reliable prognostic models in aviation is challenging due to strict safety requirements, limited labeled data, and the need for interpretable and trustworthy predictions. This research proposes a hybrid framework for remaining useful life (RUL) prediction that integrates multimodal domain knowledge available to airlines, such as sensor data, contextual information and reliability insights, into interpretable and uncertainty-aware algorithms. To this end, the proposed framework resorts to unsupervised degradation extraction with knowledge-informed autoencoders and supports extensions for failure mode segmentation. Initial experiments on a benchmark dataset show promising results, and application to real-world commercial aircraft data is planned to further validate the approach.