Regularized Length Changeable Extreme Learning Machine with Incremental Learning Enhancements for Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Aircraft Engines

Abstract

the main objective of this works is to study and improve the performances of the Single hidden Layer Feedforward Neural network (SLFN) for the application of Remaining Useful Life (RUL) prediction of aircraft engines. The most common problems in SLFNs based old training algorithms such as backpropagation are time consuming, over-fitting and the appropriate network architecture identification. In this paper a new incremental constructive learning algorithm based on Extreme Learning Machine algorithm is proposed for founding the appropriate architecture of a neural network under less computational costs. The aim of the proposed training approach is to study its maximum capabilities during RUL prediction by reducing over-fitting and human intervention. The performances of the proposed approach which are evaluated on C-MAPPS dataset and compared with its original variant from the literature. Experimental results proved that the new algorithm outperforms the old one in many metrics evaluations.