Computationally efficient, real-time, and embeddable prognostic techniques for power electronics

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2623-2634

  Alghassi, Alireza ^a   Perinpanayagam, Suresh ^a   Samie, Mohammad ^a   Sreenuch, Tarapong ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Isolated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT); Monte Carlo simulation (MCS); power electronics; prognostics; remaining useful life (RUL)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; DECISION MAKING; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; ISOLATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; NEW-GENERATION VEHICLES; POWER ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS; PROGNOSTICS; REAL TIME DECISION-MAKING; REMAINING USEFUL LIVES; STOCHASTIC DEGRADATION;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 84920186448     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2014.2360662     Document Type: Article

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