Marine Systems and Equipment Prognostics and Health Management: A Systematic Review from Health Condition Monitoring to Maintenance Strategy

Abstract

Prognostics and health management (PHM) is an essential means to optimize resource allocation and improve the intelligent operation and maintenance (O&M) efficiency of marine systems and equipment (MSAE). PHM generally consists of four technical processes, namely health condition motoring (HCM), fault diagnosis (FD), health prognosis (HP), and maintenance decision (MD). In recent years, a large amount of research has been implemented in each process. However, there is not any systematic review that covers the technical framework comprehensively. This article presents a review of the framework of PHM in the marine field to fill the gap. First, the essential HCM methods, which are widely observed in the academic literature, are introduced systematically. Then, the commonly used FD approaches and their applications in MSAE are summarized, and the implementation process of intelligent methods is systematically introduced. After that, the technologies of HP have been reviewed, including the construction of health indicator (HI), health stage (HS) division, and popular remaining useful life (RUL) prediction approaches. Afterwards, the evolution of maintenance strategy in the maritime field is reviewed. Finally, the challenges of implementing PHM for intelligent ships are put forward.