Quantification of condition indicators in the presence of synchronous noise

Abstract

Determining health of a component includes using at least one processor to perform processes including mapping a plurality of condition indicator functions for condition indicator values into a health indicator function for the health indicator value, determining a probability distribution function for the health indicator function based on the probability distribution functions for the condition indicator functions, acquiring a plurality of measured values corresponding to the condition indicator values, removing synchronous noise components from the measured values to provide revised measured values, and using the revised measured values to determine condition indicator values. Removing synchronous noise components may includes determining a predicted value thereof using covariance and autocovariance of the measured values. The component may be a split torque gearbox.

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