Abstract
In order to estimate the remaining useful performance (RUP) of analog circuits precisely in real time, an analog circuit fault prognostics framework is proposed in the paper. Output voltages are extracted from circuit responses as features to calculate cosine distance which can reflect the health condition of analog circuits. Relevance vector machine (RVM) which has been improved by particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is applied to estimate the RUP. Twelve case studies involving bandpass filter, highpass filter and nonlinear circuit have validated the predict performance of the approach. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed approach has higher prediction precision.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Funds of China for Distinguished Young Scholar under Grant No. 50925727, the National Defense Advanced Research Project Grant No. C1120110004, 9140A27020211DZ5102, the Key Grant Project of Chinese Ministry of Education under Grant No.313018, Anhui Provincial Science and Technology Foundation of China under Grant No. 1301022036, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities No.2012HGCX0003 and National Natural Science Foundation of China No.61102035.
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Zhang, C., He, Y., Yuan, L. et al. A Novel Approach for Analog Circuit Fault Prognostics Based on Improved RVM. J Electron Test 30, 343–356 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10836-014-5454-8
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