A review of intelligent methods of health assessment technology

The core technology of prognostics and health management, a key technology that detects system anomalies, is health assessment, which analyzes and diagnoses the current system working status and quantitatively assesses the health of the system. This paper reviews the development of health assessment technology in recent years from three aspects: health definition, health assessment indicators, and health assessment approaches. In terms of health definition, this paper summarizes three common definition methods. Health assessment indicators are reviewed from four levels: process variables, data features, residuals, and fusion indicators. Finally, health assessment approaches are divided into model-based, data-driven, and fusion approaches. Concerning the data-driven approach, rapidly developing health assessment research based on an intelligent approach is discussed. The paper also compares various approaches and identifies the current challenges and development prospects of this technology.