Regression based complex equipment Prognostic and Health Management

A novel Prognostic and Health Management (PHM) method for an Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) is proposed. The method uses trend analysis with regression to build the reference indicator, through probability-based techniques, and produce a degradation model to health monitoring UAV system. This method is concerned with trend analysis and regression techniques for estimation of the future condition of the system and prediction of the time-to-failure. The simulation results show that the proposed method can give the health index of UAV visually and is proved to be practical and easy to implement in engineering.