Data-Driven Prognostics Incorporating Environmental Factors for Aircraft Maintenance

Conference Paper (2021)
Author(s)

M.T. Bieber (TU Delft - Air Transport & Operations)

WJC Verhagen (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, TU Delft - Air Transport & Operations)

B. F. Lopes dos Santos (TU Delft - Air Transport & Operations)

Research Group
Air Transport & Operations
Copyright
© 2021 M.T. Bieber, W.J.C. Verhagen, Bruno F. Santos
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1109/RAMS48097.2021.9605715
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Publication Year
2021
Language
English
Copyright
© 2021 M.T. Bieber, W.J.C. Verhagen, Bruno F. Santos
Research Group
Air Transport & Operations
ISBN (print)
978-1-7281-8018-2
ISBN (electronic)
978-1-7281-8017-5
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Abstract

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.

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