On Applying the Prognostic Performance Metrics

A Publication, Prognostics CoE Publications - 10 years, 11 months ago

Shared By: Miryam Strautkalns

Prognostics performance evaluation has gained significant attention in the past few years. *As prognostics technology matures and more sophisticated methods for prognostic uncertainty management are ...

Modeling Li-ion Battery Capacity Depletion in a Particle Filtering Framework

A Publication, Prognostics CoE Publications - 10 years, 11 months ago

Shared By: Miryam Strautkalns

This paper presents an empirical model to describe battery behavior during individual discharge cycles as well as over its cycle life. The basis for the ...

Power Management for A Distributed Wireless Health Management Architecture

A Publication, Prognostics CoE Publications - 10 years, 11 months ago

Shared By: Miryam Strautkalns

Distributed wireless architectures for prognostics is an important enabling step in prognostic research in order to achieve feasible real-time system health management. A significant problem ...

Prognostics Enhanced Reconfigurable Control of Electro-Mechanical Actuators

A Publication, Prognostics CoE Publications - 10 years, 11 months ago

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Actuator systems are employed widely in aerospace, transportation and industrial processes to provide power to critical loads, such as aircraft control surfaces. They must operate ...

A Novel RSPF Approach to Prediction of High-Risk, Low-Probability Failure Events

A Publication, Prognostics CoE Publications - 10 years, 11 months ago

Shared By: Miryam Strautkalns

Particle filters (PF) have been established as the de facto state of the art in failure prognosis, and particularly in the representation and management of ...

Physics of Failure Models for Capacitor Degradation in DC-DC Converters

A Publication, Prognostics CoE Publications - 10 years, 11 months ago

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This paper proposes a combined energy-based model with an empirical physics of failure model for degradation analysis and prognosis of electrolytic capacitors in DC-DC power ...

Distributed Prognostic Health Management with Gaussian Process Regression

A Publication, Prognostics CoE Publications - 10 years, 11 months ago

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Distributed prognostics architecture design is an enabling step for efficient implementation of health management systems. A major challenge encountered in such design is formulation of ...

Tackling V&V for Prognostics

A Publication, Prognostics CoE Publications - 10 years, 11 months ago

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We believe our approach to gathering and organizing prognostics V&V; information from relevant literature, and then applying it to our specific prognostics application, provides a ...

Integrated Diagnostic/Prognostic Experimental Setup for Capacitor Degradation and Health Monitoring

A Publication, Prognostics CoE Publications - 10 years, 11 months ago

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This paper proposes the experiments and setups for studying diagnosis and prognosis of electrolytic capacitors in DC- DC power converters. Electrolytic capacitors and power MOSFET’s ...

Accelerated Aging System for Prognostics of Power Semiconductor Devices

A Publication, Prognostics CoE Publications - 10 years, 11 months ago

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Prognostics is an engineering discipline that focuses on estimation of the health state of a component and the prediction of its remaining useful life (RUL) ...

Towards Prognostics of Power MOSFETs: Accelerated Aging and Precursors of Failure

A Publication, Prognostics CoE Publications - 10 years, 11 months ago

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This paper presents research results dealing with power MOSFETs (metal oxide semiconductor field effect tran- sistor) within the prognostics and health management of electronics. Experimental ...

Aging Methodologies and Prognostic Health Management for Electrolytic Capacitors

A Publication, Prognostics CoE Publications - 10 years, 11 months ago

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Understanding the ageing mechanisms of electronic components critical avionics systems such as the GPS and INAV are of critical importance. Electrolytic capacitors and MOSFET’s have ...

Fault Adaptive Control of Overactuated Systems Using Prognostic Estimation

A Publication, Prognostics CoE Publications - 10 years, 11 months ago

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A hierarchical architecture was discussed for setting up fault adaptive control of a generic overactuated system with embedded nominal controllers. A finite horizon bounded optimization ...

Battery Health Management System for Electric UAVs

A Publication, Prognostics CoE Publications - 11 years ago

Shared By: Miryam Strautkalns

In summary, this paper lays out a novel battery health management technique for application onboard an electric UAV. This technique is also applicable to other ...