A Remaining Useful Life Prognosis of Turbofan Engine Using Temporal and Spatial Feature Fusion

The prognosis of the remaining useful life (RUL) of turbofan engine provides an important basis for predictive maintenance and remanufacturing, and plays a major role in reducing failure rate and maintenance costs. The main problem of traditional methods based on the single neural network of shallow machine learning is the RUL prognosis based on single feature extraction, and the prediction accuracy is generally not high, a method for predicting RUL based on the combination of one-dimensional convolutional neural networks with full convolutional layer (1-FCLCNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) is proposed. In this method, LSTM and 1- FCLCNN are adopted to extract temporal and spatial features of FD001 andFD003 datasets generated by turbofan engine respectively. The fusion of these two kinds of features is for the input of the next convolutional neural networks (CNN) to obtain the target RUL. Compared with the currently popular RUL prediction models, the results show that the model proposed has higher prediction accuracy than other models in RUL prediction. The final evaluation index also shows the effectiveness and superiority of the model.