Distributed Chance-Constrained Model Predictive Control for Condition-Based Maintenance Planning for Railway Infrastructures

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Z. Su, A. Jamshidi, A. Núñez, S. Baldi, and B. De Schutter, "Distributed chance-constrained model predictive control for condition-based maintenance planning for railway infrastructures," in Predictive Maintenance in Dynamic Systems - Advanced Methods, Decision Support Tools and Real-World Applications (E. Lughofer and M. Sayed-Mouchaweh, eds.), Cham, Switzerland: Springer, ISBN 978-3-030-05644-5, pp. 533-554, 2019.

Abstract

We consider condition-based maintenance optimization for railway infrastructures, where the optimal planning of maintenance interventions is based on an explicit mathematical model describing the deterioration dynamics of the asset. We propose a novel model-based, optimization-based approach for condition-based maintenance planning of railway infrastructures. To make the proposed approach applicable to a wide range of defects in general railway infrastructures, we use a piecewise-affine model with bounded uncertain parameters as the deterioration model. The developed approach is robust but nonconservative, and the proposed distributed solution methods guarantee tractability even for large-scale infrastructure systems. We also present a case study that includes a comparison with two alternative maintenance planning approaches and that shows that the proposed chance-constrained maintenance planning approach is robust and cost-effective.

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@incollection{SuJam:19-023,
   author    = {Su, Zhou and Jamshidi, Ali and N{\'{u}}{\~{n}}ez, Alfredo and
                Baldi, Simone and De Schutter, Bart},
   title     = {Distributed Chance-Constrained Model Predictive Control for
                Condition-Based Maintenance Planning for Railway
                Infrastructures},
   booktitle = {Predictive Maintenance in Dynamic Systems -- Advanced Methods,
                Decision Support Tools and Real-World Applications},
   editor    = {Lughofer, Edwin and Sayed-Mouchaweh, Moamar},
   publisher = {Springer},
   address   = {Cham, Switzerland},
   pages     = {533--554},
   year      = {2019}
   }


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