In prognostics it is possible to apply several approaches with the aim to detect incipient failures, caused by progressive wear, of electromechanical actuators (EMA) in primary flight commands. The anticipation of a failure has to be performed through a correct interpretation of the degradation pattern, so to trig an early alert for maintenance and to properly schedule the servomechanism replacement. This paper proposes a prognostic approach based on the simulated annealing optimization method, able to identify symptoms of degradation before the behavior of the actuator becomes anomalous; friction failures are considered as the case study. The approach is validated through an experimental test bench, resulting in an adequate robustness and a high degree of confidence in the ability to early identify faults, with a low amount of false alarms or not annunciated failures.

A New Prognostic Method Based on Simulated Annealing Algorithm to Deal with the Effects of Dry Friction on Electromechanical Actuators / DALLA VEDOVA, MATTEO DAVIDE LORENZO; Maggiore, Paolo; Pace, Lorenzo. - In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MECHANICS. - ISSN 1998-4448. - 9:(2015), pp. 236-245.

A New Prognostic Method Based on Simulated Annealing Algorithm to Deal with the Effects of Dry Friction on Electromechanical Actuators

DALLA VEDOVA, MATTEO DAVIDE LORENZO;MAGGIORE, Paolo;PACE, LORENZO
2015

Abstract

In prognostics it is possible to apply several approaches with the aim to detect incipient failures, caused by progressive wear, of electromechanical actuators (EMA) in primary flight commands. The anticipation of a failure has to be performed through a correct interpretation of the degradation pattern, so to trig an early alert for maintenance and to properly schedule the servomechanism replacement. This paper proposes a prognostic approach based on the simulated annealing optimization method, able to identify symptoms of degradation before the behavior of the actuator becomes anomalous; friction failures are considered as the case study. The approach is validated through an experimental test bench, resulting in an adequate robustness and a high degree of confidence in the ability to early identify faults, with a low amount of false alarms or not annunciated failures.
2015
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