Predictive Maintenance: Deep Learning-Based Remaining Useful Life Prediction for Combat Aircraft Engines
This study addresses the challenges of inaccurate remaining useful life (RUL) prediction for aircraft engines under dynamic combat missions, which leads to excessive maintenance costs and reduced operational readiness. To overcome this, we propose a deep learning–based predictive maintenance model that constructs multivariate sensor time-series inputs via a sliding window approach to automatically extract degradation features. The model is evaluated on the NASA C-MAPSS FD001 and FD004 datasets, demonstrating strong generalization under complex operating conditions: it achieves an R² of 0.8901, RMSE of 13.28, and a NASA score of 320.34 on FD001; an RMSE of 15.71 on FD004; and an AUC of 0.9973 for early warning within a critical 30-cycle threshold. These results significantly outperform baseline methods such as Random Forest and CNN-LSTM.