• Chinese Journal of Ship Research
  • Vol. 17, Issue 6, 118 (2022)
Chaoyou GUO1, Zhe XU2, and Qian YAO3
Author Affiliations
  • 1College of Power Engineering, Naval University of Engineering, Wuhan 430033, China
  • 2The 92942 Unit of PLA, Beijing 100161, China
  • 3The 92578 Unit of PLA, Beijing 100161, China
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    DOI: 10.19693/j.issn.1673-3185.02672 Cite this Article
    Chaoyou GUO, Zhe XU, Qian YAO. Stacking-based method for predicting remaining useful life of engine room equipment[J]. Chinese Journal of Ship Research, 2022, 17(6): 118 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Objectives

    With reference to the definitions and requirements of intelligent engine rooms in the China Classification Society Rules for Intelligent Ships, this paper studies methods for predicting the remaining useful life (RUL) of bearings in order to explore prognostic and health management technologies.

    Methods

    Addressing the poor prediction accuracy of conventional data-driven methods, this study uses the Stacking fusion strategy in integrated learning to construct an R-A-X (Ridge-ANN-XGBoost, with XGBoost and ANN as the base learner, and ridge regression as the meta learner) fusion model. It then designs a prediction performance comparison experiment using the life cycle data in the IEEE PHM 2012 Prognostic Challenge under the same working conditions, with MAE and R2 used as performance evaluation indicators to compare the R-A-X fusion model with the single algorithm and average.

    Results

    The results show that the prediction performance of the R-A-X fusion model are better than those of the other methods involved in this article, with an improvement effect reaching up to 20%.

    Conclusions

    The proposed method can improve the accuracy of bearing RUL prediction and has certain reference value for the realization of the equipment health management of intelligent engine rooms.