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2017 Prognostics and System Health Management Conference

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2018) | Viewed by 16800

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School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150080, China
Interests: automatic test and simulation; condition monitoring; system diagnostics and prognostics; industrial big data and industrial intelligence; lithium-ion battery management
Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Interests: competitive product development; product characterization and qualification; supply chain creation and management; prognostics and health management; product reliability, risk assessment and mitigation
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Department of Electrical engineering, College of Engineering and Computing, University of South Carolina, 301 Main St. Columbia, SC 29208, USA
Interests: prognostics and health management; robotics; unmanned systems; intelligent systems and control; dynamic systems; design; modeling; simulation and control
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to announce that the 2017 Prognostics and System Health Management Conference (PHM-2017 Harbin) will be held in Harbin, China, from 9–12 July, 2017. The PHM conference has become the top PHM forum in the Asia-Pacific area for connecting with leaders in PHM from around the world.

PHM-2017 Harbin serves as a premier interdisciplinary forum for researchers, scientists, and scholars in the domains of aeronautics and astronautics, energy and power systems, process industries, computers and telecommunications, and industrial automation. The most recent innovations, trends, concerns, challenges, and solutions will be presented and discussed.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rui Xiong
Prof. Michael Gerard Pecht
Assoc. Prof. Datong Liu
Dr. Bin Zhang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • PHM for energy system

  • Circuits diagnostics and prognostics

  • Testability for PHM

  • PHM for electronic chips

  • PHM for electronic components or systems

  • PHM in spacecraft engineering

  • PHM in aerial engineering

  • PHM for transportation

  • PHM for mechanical system

  • System diagnostics

  • Machine learning in PHM

  • Virtual Simulation for diagnostics and prognostics

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Boolean Network-Based Sensor Selection with Application to the Fault Diagnosis of a Nuclear Plant
by Zhe Dong
Energies 2017, 10(12), 2125; https://doi.org/10.3390/en10122125 - 13 Dec 2017
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Fault diagnosis is crucial for the operation of energy systems such as nuclear plants, and heavily relies on various types of sensors for temperature, pressure, concentration, etc. Due to the redundancy of sensors in each energy system, the sensor selection scheme can deeply [...] Read more.
Fault diagnosis is crucial for the operation of energy systems such as nuclear plants, and heavily relies on various types of sensors for temperature, pressure, concentration, etc. Due to the redundancy of sensors in each energy system, the sensor selection scheme can deeply influence the diagnostic efficiency. In this paper, a Boolean network (BN) with its linear representation is proposed for describing the fault propagation among sensors. Both the sufficient condition of fault detectability and that of fault discriminability are given. Then, a sensor selection method for fault detection and discrimination is proposed. Finally, the theoretic result is applied to realize the diagnosis oriented sensor selection for a nuclear steam supply system based on a modular high temperature gas-cooled reactor (MHTGR). The computation and simulation results verify the correctness of the theoretical results. Full article
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Failure Prognosis of High Voltage Circuit Breakers with Temporal Latent Dirichlet Allocation
by Gaoyang Li, Xiaohua Wang, Aijun Yang, Mingzhe Rong and Kang Yang
Energies 2017, 10(11), 1913; https://doi.org/10.3390/en10111913 - 20 Nov 2017
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The continual accumulation of power grid failure logs provides a valuable but rarely used source for data mining. Sequential analysis, aiming at exploiting the temporal evolution and exploring the future trend in power grid failures, is an increasingly promising alternative for predictive scheduling [...] Read more.
The continual accumulation of power grid failure logs provides a valuable but rarely used source for data mining. Sequential analysis, aiming at exploiting the temporal evolution and exploring the future trend in power grid failures, is an increasingly promising alternative for predictive scheduling and decision-making. In this paper, a temporal Latent Dirichlet Allocation (TLDA) framework is proposed to proactively reduce the cardinality of the event categories and estimate the future failure distributions by automatically uncovering the hidden patterns. The aim was to model the failure sequence as a mixture of several failure patterns, each of which was characterized by an infinite mixture of failures with certain probabilities. This state space dependency was captured by a hierarchical Bayesian framework. The model was temporally extended by establishing the long-term dependency with new co-occurrence patterns. Evaluation of the high voltage circuit breakers (HVCBs) demonstrated that the TLDA model had higher fidelities of 51.13%, 73.86%, and 92.93% in the Top-1, Top-5, and Top-10 failure prediction tasks over the baselines, respectively. In addition to the quantitative results, we showed that the TLDA can be successfully used for extracting the time-varying failure patterns and capture the failure association with a cluster coalition method. Full article
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Approximate Analysis of Multi-State Weighted k-Out-of-n Systems Applied to Transmission Lines
by Xiaogang Song, Zhengjun Zhai, Yangming Guo, Peican Zhu and Jie Han
Energies 2017, 10(11), 1740; https://doi.org/10.3390/en10111740 - 30 Oct 2017
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Multi-state weighted k-out-of-n systems are widely applied in various scenarios, such as multiple line (power/oil transmission line) transmission systems where the capability of fault tolerance is desirable. However, the complex operating environment and the dynamic features of load demands influence the [...] Read more.
Multi-state weighted k-out-of-n systems are widely applied in various scenarios, such as multiple line (power/oil transmission line) transmission systems where the capability of fault tolerance is desirable. However, the complex operating environment and the dynamic features of load demands influence the evaluation of system reliability. In this paper, a stochastic multiple-valued (SMV) approach is proposed to efficiently predict the reliability of two models of systems with non-repairable components and dynamically repairable components. The weights/performances and reliabilities of multi-state components (MSCs) are represented by stochastic sequences consisting of a fixed number of multi-state values with the positions being randomly permutated. Using stochastic sequences with L multiple values, linear computational complexities with parameters n and L are required by the SMV approach to compute the reliability of different multi-state k-out-of-n systems at a reasonable accuracy, compared to the complexities of universal generating functions (UGF) and fuzzy universal generating functions (FUGF) that increase exponentially with the value of n. The analysis of two benchmarks shows that the proposed SMV approach is more efficient than the analysis using UGF or FUGF. Full article
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A Novel Multi-Phase Stochastic Model for Lithium-Ion Batteries’ Degradation with Regeneration Phenomena
by Jianxun Zhang, Xiao He, Xiaosheng Si, Changhua Hu and Donghua Zhou
Energies 2017, 10(11), 1687; https://doi.org/10.3390/en10111687 - 25 Oct 2017
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A lithium-Ion battery is a typical degradation product, and its performance will deteriorate over time. In its degradation process, regeneration phenomena have been frequently encountered, which affect both the degradation state and rate. In this paper, we focus on how to build the [...] Read more.
A lithium-Ion battery is a typical degradation product, and its performance will deteriorate over time. In its degradation process, regeneration phenomena have been frequently encountered, which affect both the degradation state and rate. In this paper, we focus on how to build the degradation model and estimate the lifetime. Toward this end, we first propose a multi-phase stochastic degradation model with random jumps based on the Wiener process, where the multi-phase model and random jumps at the changing point are used to describe the variation of degradation rate and state caused by regeneration phenomena accordingly. Owing to the complex structure and random variables, the traditional Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) is not suitable for the proposed model. In this case, we treat these random variables as latent parameters, and then develop an approach for model identification based on expectation conditional maximum (ECM) algorithm. Moreover, depending on the proposed model, how to estimate the lifetime with fixed changing point is presented via the time-space transformation technique, and the approximate analytical solution is derived. Finally, a numerical simulation and a practical case are provided for illustration. Full article
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