Physics-informed Multi-task Tabular Transformer for Joint Fault Prediction and Remaining Useful Life Estimation of Industrial Equipment

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https://doi.org/10.65455/s4kq0p29

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Predictive Maintenance, Fault Diagnosis, Remaining Useful Life, Physics-Informed Learning, Multi-Task Learning

摘要

Accurate fault prediction and remaining useful life (RUL) estimation are essential for predictive maintenance of industrial equipment. However, existing methods mainly focus on time-series signals and often ignore the heterogeneous characteristics and degradation knowledge in tabular equipment data. This study proposes a Physics-informed Multi-task Tabular Transformer (PIMTT) for joint fault prediction and RUL estimation. The proposed model integrates numerical, categorical, and physics-informed tokens, where a type-aware physics gate is introduced to adaptively enhance degradation-related representations. A multi-task learning strategy is further developed to jointly optimize fault classification and RUL regression. Experiments on a synthetic industrial-equipment condition dataset with approximately 260,000 samples demonstrate that PIMTT achieves an F1-score of 0.8461 for fault prediction and an R2 of 0.9899 for RUL estimation, outperforming several machine learning, Transformer-based, and multi-task baselines. The results verify the effectiveness of combining physical knowledge with tabular Transformer learning for intelligent equipment health assessment.

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