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Journal of ZheJiang University (Engineering Science)  2026, Vol. 60 Issue (10): 2299-2309    DOI: 10.3785/j.issn.1008-973X.2026.10.021
    
Reparameterized aero-engine remaining useful life prediction based on channel decomposition and feature fusion
Xingyu LI1(),Hairui WANG1,*(),Guifu ZHU2,3
1. Faculty of Information Engineering and Automation , Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500
2. Information Technology Construction Management Center, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500
3. Kunming University of Science and Technology - Dawn Information Industry Co. Ltd. AI Joint Research Center, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500
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Abstract  

A reparameterization-based RUL prediction method that integrated channel decomposition and feature fusion was proposed to address the challenges in remaining useful life (RUL) prediction for aero-engines. Specifically, a channel decomposition and reconstruction module based on wavelet transform was designed to capture dependencies between time and channels while reducing redundancy. By fusing the raw input with the extracted feature information, the model enhanced the preservation of original information and mitigated the loss of critical information during deep network training. Furthermore, a frequency-enhanced channel attention mechanism was introduced to further suppress channel redundancy. A neural network was then employed to estimate the mean and variance of the features, and reparameterization was applied to map them into a Gaussian distribution for sampling-based prediction. In addition, the Whale optimization algorithm (WOA) was used to perform global optimization of key hyperparameters. Experimental validation on the C-MAPSS dataset from NASA demonstrated that the proposed method achieved an RMSE range of [11.58,13.72] and a Score range of [224.78,1025.29], with average decreases of 22.67% and 45.56%, respectively. Moreover, the constructed three-dimensional latent space supported the visualization of engine degradation processes.



Key wordschannel decomposition      feature fusion      remaining useful life prediction      frequency-enhanced channel attention      reparameterization      Gaussian distribution      Whale optimization algorithm     
Received: 07 May 2025      Published: 29 July 2026
CLC:  V 263.6  
Fund:  国家自然科学基金资助项目(61863016).
Corresponding Authors: Hairui WANG     E-mail: 515927790@qq.com;hrwang88@163.com
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Xingyu LI,Hairui WANG,Guifu ZHU. Reparameterized aero-engine remaining useful life prediction based on channel decomposition and feature fusion. Journal of ZheJiang University (Engineering Science), 2026, 60(10): 2299-2309.

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https://www.zjujournals.com/eng/10.3785/j.issn.1008-973X.2026.10.021     OR     https://www.zjujournals.com/eng/Y2026/V60/I10/2299


基于信道分解与特征融合的重参数航空发动机寿命预测

为了应对航空发动机剩余使用寿命预测中的挑战,提出基于信道分解与特征融合的重参数航空发动机寿命预测方法. 通过构建基于小波变换的信道分解与重塑模块,学习时间和信道之间的依赖关系并减少冗余. 将原始信息与提取的特征信息混合,增强原始信息的保留,避免在深度网络学习过程中丢失关键信息. 引入频率增强通道注意力机制进一步减少信道冗余信息. 利用神经网络进行特征的均值和方差拟合,通过重参数化映射至高斯分布进行采样预测,并采用鲸鱼优化算法对模型关键超参数进行全局搜索优化. 使用NASA的C-MAPSS数据集进行验证,结果显示RMSE范围为[11.58,13.72],Score范围为[224.78,1025.29],4个数据子集的RMSE和Score平均降低了22.67%和45.56%. 所构建的三维潜在空间,为发动机退化过程的可视化提供了支持.


关键词: 信道分解,  特征融合,  寿命预测,  频率增强通道注意力,  重参数,  高斯分布,  鲸鱼优化算法 
Fig.1 RUL prediction model flow chart
Fig.2 Structure diagram of channel decomposition and restruction module
Fig.3 Structure diagram of FECAM
名称DtrainDtestOFTtrainTtest
FD001100100112063113096
FD002260259615375933991
FD003100100122471916595
FD004249248626124941214
Tab.1 C-MAPSS dataset information
参数数值
时间窗长度30
批大小128
学习率0.005
可变学习策略Epochs/times: 10/0.1
早停机制/耐心值True/20
L2正则化0.01
特征融合短连接 (FD001,FD002)
长连接 (FD003,FD004)
Dropout0.5
Tab.2 Parameter settings of RUL prediction model
方法C-MAPSS
FD001FD002FD003FD004
ERMSEKScoreERMSEKScoreERMSEKScoreERMSEKScore
BiGRU-TSAM[12]12.56213.3518.942264.1312.45232.8620.473610.34
AdaBN-DCNN[13]13.17279.0020.862020.0014.97817.0024.573690.00
TaFCN[14]13.99336.0019.592650.0019.161727.0022.152910.00
KGHM[15]13.18250.9913.251131.0313.54333.4419.963356.10
RVE[16]13.42323.8214.921379.1711.67241.8916.371845.99
TATFA-Transformer[17]12.21261.5015.071369.7011.23210.2118.812506.35
上述方法平均值13.08277.4417.1051802.3313.95593.7320.392986.46
所提方法11.58224.7811.99815.1712.05315.7813.721025.29
平均降低/%11.4718.9829.9054.7713.6246.8132.7165.67
Tab.3 Comparison of RUL prediction performance
Fig.4 Visualization of true and predicted values for engine remaining useful life
方法C-MAPSS
FD001FD002FD003FD004
ERMSEKScoreERMSEKScoreERMSEKScoreERMSEKScore
长连接12.30264.5212.64854.9912.05315.7813.721025.29
短连接11.58224.7811.99815.1712.33311.4114.251185.21
长短链接11.68243.9912.40773.2312.76352.9413.811610.93
Tab.4 Experiments of long and short connections
Fig.5 Visualization of life prediction and error for a single engine extracted from test set
Fig.6 Three-dimensional potential space representation
Fig.7 Uncertainty quantification map
Fig.8 Degradation path of engine RUL in 3D potential space
实验方法FD001FD002FD003FD004
ERMSEKScoreERMSEKScoreERMSEKScoreERMSEKScore
1CRU-SRU11.81258.6712.02911.7413.14377.9115.171383.56
2仅SRU12.56379.4712.37999.9713.23387.5014.341173.80
3仅CRU12.65305.6212.12939.1315.01381.4113.27943.44
4去除DCT18.34761.3018.052766.9622.302356.7318.012293.95
5去除CDAR18.941055.8416.953232.6612.62409.5820.033001.96
6去除FECAM12.73352.0611.58586.0912.64427.7619.802590.85
7去除CDAR、FECAM17.811001.5317.482364.6021.311770.8819.432714.51
8标准高斯分布11.64244.7412.061255.0914.82586.4713.931107.47
9本研究方法11.58224.7811.99815.1712.05315.7813.721025.29
Tab.5 Ablation experiments on each module of proposed method
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