Search

The electro-hydraulic actuator plays a significant role in the automatic flight control system, so it is vital to predict the remaining useful life (RUL) for the electro-hydraulic actuators. Relevance vector machine (RVM) is flourishing in the field of RUL prognostics and gradually applied to the prediction of complex systems or components, but the general RVM cannot achieve on-line prediction efficiently due to its high computational complexity, besides, the sparse RVM model which is only based on historical data set could cause a large prediction error in the long term. To deal with these plights, an optimized incremental learning algorithm based on RVM is presented taking full advantage of the on-line updating samples to improve the precision of prognostics.