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ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 104
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RAILWAY TECHNOLOGY: RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE
Edited by: J. Pombo
Paper 101

A Specific Dynamic Bayesian Network for a Prognosis based Maintenance Strategy

J. Foulliaron1, L. Bouillaut1, P. Aknin1 and A. Baros2

1Université Paris-Est, IFSTTAR, GRETTIA, Cité Descartes, Marne-la-Vallée, Paris, France
2Université de Technologie de Troyes, Institut Charles Delaunay, Troyes, France

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
J. Foulliaron, L. Bouillaut, P. Aknin, A. Baros, "A Specific Dynamic Bayesian Network for a Prognosis based Maintenance Strategy", in J. Pombo, (Editor), "Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 101, 2014. doi:10.4203/ccp.104.101
Keywords: prognosis, diagnosis, predictive maintenance, dynamic Bayesian networks, graphical duration models, algorithm.

Summary
Transport systems are more and more complex and the number of users is increasing. So, it is necessary both to increase the availability of the material and to guarantee a high level of security while ensuring reasonable maintenance costs. For this reason, the maintenance optimization of transport systems has become a key issue. Currently, industry jointly use systematic maintenance and corrective maintenance. For the reasons mentioned above, to optimize the logistic behind the maintenance, industry seeks to anticipate the failure time. That is why industry is now interested in predictive maintenance based on the prognostic concept. Dynamic Bayesian networks (DBN) are powerful mathematical tools that can model the behaviour of complex systems. The Markov property in a DBN implies that the time spent in each degradation state is exponentially distributed. To overcome this limitation, duration variables are introduced in and adapted by have been used. The Diagnostic and Maintenance group from IFSTTAR-GRETTIA developed a model called VirMaLab (Virtual Maintenance Laboratory) based on DBN and GDM to describe the degradation of a system and this diagnosis/maintenance process). This approach was already successfully applied to evaluate and optimize maintenance strategies of several railway systems, from various rail applications to some rolling stock components. If Bayesian networks were already used in some prognosis applications, their contribution was generally limited to provide some static decision making, not to estimate directly the RUL. The originality of the proposed study described in this paper lies in the integration of a dynamic RUL estimation represented with an explicit node in a DBN. In this paper, an online prognosis algorithm and its representation in a dynamic Bayesian network are presented. This algorithm is a first step towards the development of a online predictive maintenance policy that could be optimized using its representation in the VirMaLab DBN.

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