A review of condition-based maintenance: Its prognostic and operational aspects

Y Li, S Peng, Y Li, W Jiang - Frontiers of Engineering Management, 2020 - Springer
Condition-based maintenance (CBM) detects early signs of failure and dictates when
maintenance should be performed based on the actual condition of a system. In this paper …

The internet of federated things (IoFT)

R Kontar, N Shi, X Yue, S Chung, E Byon… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Internet of Things (IoT) is on the verge of a major paradigm shift. In the IoT system of the
future, IoFT, the “cloud” will be substituted by the “crowd” where model training is brought to …

Intelligent predictive maintenance (Ipdm) in forestry: A review of challenges and opportunities

J Maktoubian, MS Taskhiri, P Turner - Forests, 2021 - mdpi.com
The feasibility of reliably generating bioenergy from forest biomass waste is intimately linked
to supply chain and production processing costs. These costs are, at least in part, directly …

A new nonparametric degradation modeling method for truncated degradation signals by axis rotation

N Li, Y Lei, X Li, X Liu, B Yang - Mechanical Systems and Signal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nonparametric degradation modeling can automatically formulate the principal degradation
pattern of condition monitoring signals. It performs higher flexibility than parametric modeling …

Personalized pca: Decoupling shared and unique features

N Shi, R Al Kontar - Journal of machine learning research, 2024 - jmlr.org
In this paper, we tackle a significant challenge in PCA: heterogeneity. When data are
collected from different sources with heterogeneous trends while still sharing some …

Personalized dictionary learning for heterogeneous datasets

G Liang, N Shi, R Al Kontar… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We introduce a relevant yet challenging problem named Personalized Dictionary Learning
(PerDL), where the goal is to learn sparse linear representations from heterogeneous …

Personalized federated learning via domain adaptation with an application to distributed 3D printing

N Shi, RA Kontar - Technometrics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Over the years, Internet of Things (IoT) devices have become more powerful. This sets forth
a unique opportunity to exploit local computing resources to distribute model learning and …

Federated condition monitoring signal prediction with improved generalization

S Chung, R Al Kontar - IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Revolutionary advances in Internet of Things technologies have paved the way for a
significant increase in computational resources at edge devices that collect condition …

Remaining useful life prediction of lithium-ion battery with nonparametric degradation modeling and incomplete data

N Li, M Wang, Y Lei, B Yang, X Li, X Si - Reliability Engineering & System …, 2025 - Elsevier
The accurate and reliable prediction of remaining useful life (RUL) plays a crucial role in
ensuring the safe operation of batteries. Most existing RUL prediction methods are based on …

Joint models for event prediction from time series and survival data

X Yue, RA Kontar - Technometrics, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
We present a nonparametric prognostic framework for individualized event prediction based
on joint modeling of both time series and time-to-event data. Our approach exploits a …