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Remaining Useful Life Prediction Using Attention-LSTM Neural Network of Aircraft Engines

2025· article· en· W4412044219 on OpenAlex
Abdelhakim Cheriet, Mourad Belhadj

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Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Prognostics and Health Management · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicFault Detection and Control Systems
Canadian institutionsArtificial Intelligence in Medicine (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsArtificial neural networkComputer scienceArtificial intelligenceMachine learning

Abstract

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Accurate prediction of the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) is essential for the effective implementation of Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) in aerospace, particularly in enhancing aero-engine reliability and forecasting potential failures to reduce maintenance costs and human-related risks. The NASA Commercial Modular Aero-Propulsion System Simulation (C-MAPSS) dataset, utilized in the 2021 PHM Data Challenge, serves as a widely recognized open-source benchmark, providing simulated turbofan engine data collected under realistic flight conditions. Previous deep learning approaches have leveraged this dataset to predict the remaining useful life of engine units. However, data-driven methods for RUL prediction in aerospace often encounter challenges such as high model complexity, limited prediction accuracy, and reduced interpretability. To address these issues, this paper presents a novel hybrid framework that incorporates an attention mechanism to enhance aircraft engine RUL prognostics. Specifically, we employ a self-attention mechanism to effectively capture relationships and interactions among different features, enabling the transformation of high-dimensional feature spaces into lower-dimensional representations. The proposed model, which integrates an LSTM network, demonstrates superior performance in predicting turbofan engine RUL. Experimental results validate its effectiveness, achieving RMSE values of 12.33 and 11.76, along with score values of 200 and 212 on the FD001 and FD003 sub-datasets, respectively. These results surpass those of other state-of-the-art methods on the C-MAPSS dataset.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.357
Threshold uncertainty score0.306

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.022
GPT teacher head0.288
Teacher spread0.267 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it