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Special Issue "State Monitoring and Health Management of Complex Equipment"

A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2023 | Viewed by 14170

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Prof. Dr. Cheng-Wei Fei

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Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
Interests: aircraft design and optimization; model updating; probabilistic modeling; structural health monitoring; structural reliability
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Dear Colleagues,

The development of complex industrial equipment involves a combination of mechanical, electronics, materials, and other interdisciplinary studies, and the state monitoring and health management of complex equipment in aerospace, high-speed rail systems, and other industrial sectors are becoming increasingly complex. The difficulties faced in state monitoring and health management are not only due to the complexity of equipment but also the integration of modeling techniques, mathematical algorithms, and maintenance polices. Therefore, the development of advanced state monitoring methods, prediction methods, and health assessment technologies in industry would result in substantial benefits. We plan to launch this Special Issue on Aerospace with the intention of discussing state-of-the-art and future trends in state monitoring and health management methods for complex industrial equipment. The objective of this Special Issue is to improve the reliability, safety, economy and maintainability of complex equipment. Topics of interest include, but not limited to, reliability analysis, reliability optimization, failure prediction, signal processing and fault diagnosis, fault/state monitoring, remaining useful life estimation, health assessment, and maintenance decision optimization. This Special Issue welcomes the submissions describing theoretical, analytical, technical, engineering, and experimental investigations of complex equipment. Through its contributions, this Special Issue aims to drive further improvements in structural/system reliability analysis techniques, model-based and data-driven modeling methods, computer simulation technologies, reliability-based design optimization techniques, maintenance police optimization techniques, and other related interdisciplinary techniques in complex equipment reliability and health management.
Potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to structural/system state monitoring; reliability evaluation and prediction; reliability-based design optimization; advanced signal processing, fault diagnosis, and faults monitoring methods; model-based and data-driven detection for state monitoring and health management; modeling and simulation methods on remaining useful life estimates of complex systems or components; health monitoring technologies; machine learning, deep learning models for complex equipment health assessment; maintenance policy optimization for complex equipment; performance estimation and prediction for complex equipment.

Prof. Dr. Cheng-Wei Fei
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • complex equipment
  • state monitoring
  • health management
  • modeling techniques
  • fault diagnosis and prediction
  • operation and maintenance

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An AEFA-Based Optimum Design of Fuzzy PID Controller for Attitude Control Flywheel with BLDC Motor
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Zhizhou Zhang
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Yang Li
Aerospace 2022, 9(12), 789; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace9120789 - 03 Dec 2022
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A new method for optimizing the fuzzy PID controller, based on an artificial electric field algorithm (AEFA), is proposed in this paper, aiming at improving the stability indicator of the Brushless DC (BLDC) motor for the small satellite attitude control flywheel. The BLDC [...] Read more.
A new method for optimizing the fuzzy PID controller, based on an artificial electric field algorithm (AEFA), is proposed in this paper, aiming at improving the stability indicator of the Brushless DC (BLDC) motor for the small satellite attitude control flywheel. The BLDC motor is the basic part of the small satellite attitude control flywheel. In order to accurately control the attitude of the small satellite, a good motor control system is very important. Firstly, the mathematical model of the BLDC motor is established and the BLDC motor speed control system using traditional PID control is designed. Secondly, considering that the small satellite speed control system is a nonlinear system, a fuzzy PID control is designed to solve the shortcomings of the fixed parameters of the traditional PID control. Finally, we find that the control accuracy of the fuzzy PID control will change with the range of the input. Therefore, we introduce the AEFA to optimize fuzzy PID to achieve high-precision attitude control of small satellites. By simulating the BLDC motor system, the proposed fuzzy PID controller based on AEFA is compared with the traditional PID controller and the fuzzy PID controller. Results from different controllers show that the proposed control method could effectively reduce steady state error. In addition, the proposed fuzzy PID–AEFA controller has the better anti-jamming capability. Full article
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A Leakage Rate Model for Metal-to-Metal Seals Based on the Fractal Theory of Porous Medium
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Yong Liu
,
Hao Du
,
Xinjiang Ren
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Baichun Li
,
Junze Qian
and
Fangchao Yan
Aerospace 2022, 9(12), 779; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace9120779 - 01 Dec 2022
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Due to the complexity of sealing surface topography, it is difficult to take the surface topography into consideration when building a leakage rate model theoretically. Therefore, a theoretical model for estimating the leakage rate of metal-to-metal seals based on the fractal theory of [...] Read more.
Due to the complexity of sealing surface topography, it is difficult to take the surface topography into consideration when building a leakage rate model theoretically. Therefore, a theoretical model for estimating the leakage rate of metal-to-metal seals based on the fractal theory of porous medium, which can objectively reflect the influence of sealing surface topography from a microscopic perspective, is proposed in the present work. In the approach, fractal parameters are adopted to characterize the sealing surface. The sealing interface is supposed to be a porous medium space and the intrinsic parameters are obtained through rigorous theoretical derivation. The results show that the topography parameters of the sealing surface have a significant effect on the intrinsic parameters of the pore space and lead to a significant influence on the leakage rate of metal-to-metal seals. Specifically, the smoother the sealing surface, the lower the leakage rate of the metal-to-metal seal. Moreover, the leakage rate decreases with an increase in the contact pressure, and, if the fluid pressure difference is too large, the sealing performance will be seriously reduced. The proposed model provides a novel way to calculate the leakage rate of metal-to-metal seals. Full article
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Parameter Identification Method for a Periodic Time-Varying System Using a Block-Pulse Function
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Zhi Wang
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Jun Wang
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Jing Tian
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Yu Liu
Aerospace 2022, 9(10), 614; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace9100614 - 17 Oct 2022
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For periodic time-varying systems, a method of parameter identification based on the block-pulse function is presented. Firstly, the state-space equation of the system was expanded using the block-pulse function, then the recursion formula of the parameter identification of a time-varying system was obtained, [...] Read more.
For periodic time-varying systems, a method of parameter identification based on the block-pulse function is presented. Firstly, the state-space equation of the system was expanded using the block-pulse function, then the recursion formula of the parameter identification of a time-varying system was obtained, according to the irrespective and orthogonal characteristics of the block-pulse function. This study provides a wide range of applications by saving time in calculation with a highly accurate method. The parameter identification was carried out by including the numerical simulation model of a three-degree freedom system and the vibration experiment results of an asymmetrical rotor system. The state space wavelet method and EMD method were compared cross-sectionally with the proposed method; this shows that the proposed method is accurate and effective, which makes it valuable in numerous applications. It also has a certain application value for several related projects. Full article
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Optimizable Image Segmentation Method with Superpixels and Feature Migration for Aerospace Structures
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Chengwei Fei
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Jiongran Wen
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Lei Han
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Bo Huang
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Cheng Yan
Aerospace 2022, 9(8), 465; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace9080465 - 21 Aug 2022
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The lack of high-quality, highly specialized labeled images, and the expensive annotation cost are always critical issues in the image segmentation field. However, most of the present methods, such as deep learning, generally require plenty of train cost and high-quality datasets. Therefore, an [...] Read more.
The lack of high-quality, highly specialized labeled images, and the expensive annotation cost are always critical issues in the image segmentation field. However, most of the present methods, such as deep learning, generally require plenty of train cost and high-quality datasets. Therefore, an optimizable image segmentation method (OISM) based on the simple linear iterative cluster (SLIC), feature migration model, and random forest (RF) classifier, is proposed for solving the small sample image segmentation problem. In the approach, the SLIC is used for extracting the image boundary by clustering, the Unet feature migration model is used to obtain multidimensional superpixels features, and the RF classifier is used for predicting and updating the image segmentation results. It is demonstrated that the proposed OISM has acceptable accuracy, and it retains better target boundary than improved Unet model. Furthermore, the OISM shows the potential for dealing with the fatigue image identification of turbine blades, which can also be a promising method for the effective image segmentation to reveal the microscopic damages and crack propagations of high-performance structures for aeroengine components. Full article
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A Prognostic and Health Management Framework for Aero-Engines Based on a Dynamic Probability Model and LSTM Network
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Yufeng Huang
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Jun Tao
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Gang Sun
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Hao Zhang
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Yan Hu
Aerospace 2022, 9(6), 316; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace9060316 - 10 Jun 2022
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In this study, a prognostics and health management (PHM) framework is proposed for aero-engines, which combines a dynamic probability (DP) model and a long short-term memory neural network (LSTM). A DP model based on Gaussian mixture model-adaptive density peaks clustering algorithm, which has [...] Read more.
In this study, a prognostics and health management (PHM) framework is proposed for aero-engines, which combines a dynamic probability (DP) model and a long short-term memory neural network (LSTM). A DP model based on Gaussian mixture model-adaptive density peaks clustering algorithm, which has the advantages of an extremely short training time and high enough precision, is employed for modelling engine fault development from the beginning of engine service, and principal component analysis is introduced to convert complex high-dimensional raw data into low-dimensional data. The model can be updated from time to time according to the accumulation of engine data to capture the occurrence and evolution process of engine faults. In order to address the problems with the commonly used data driven methods, the DP + LSTM model is employed to estimate the remaining useful life (RUL) of the engine. Finally, the proposed PHM framework is validated experimentally using NASA’s commercial modular aero-propulsion system simulation dataset, and the results indicate that the DP model has higher stability than the classical artificial neural network method in fault diagnosis, whereas the DP + LSTM model has higher accuracy in RUL estimation than other classical deep learning methods. Full article
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