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    An effective maintenance policy for a multi-component dynamic system using factored POMDPs
    (Springer Verlag, 2019-09-20) Kıvanç, İpek; Özgür Ünlüakın, Demet
    With the latest advances in technology, almost all systems are getting substantially more uncertain and complex. Since increased complexity costs more, it is challenging to cope with this situation. Maintenance optimization plays a critical role in ensuring effective decision-making on the correct maintenance actions in multi-component systems. A Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) is an appropriate framework for such problems. Nevertheless, POMDPs are rarely used for tackling maintenance problems. This study aims to formulate and solve a factored POMDP model to tackle the problems that arise with maintenance planning of multi-component systems. An empirical model consisting of four partially observable components deteriorating in time is constructed. We resort to Symbolic Perseus solver, which includes an adapted variant of the point-based value iteration algorithm, to solve the empirical model. The obtained maintenance policy is simulated on the empirical model in a finite horizon for many replications and the results are compared to the other predefined maintenance policies. Drawing upon the policy results of the factored representation, we present how factored POMDPs offer an effective maintenance policy for the multi-component systems.
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    Maintenance policy simulation for a factored partially observable system
    (The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 2019-07) Özgür Ünlüakın, Demet; Kıvanç, İpek
    Taking maintenance decisions is one of the well-known stochastic sequential decision problems under uncertainty. Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) are powerful tools for such problems. Nevertheless, POMDPs are rarely used for tackling maintenance problems of multi-component systems because their state spaces grow exponentially with the increasing number of components. Factored representations have been proposed for POMDPs taking advantage of the factored structure already available in the nature of the problem. Our aim in this study is to show how to formulate a factored POMDP model for the maintenance problem of a multi-component dynamic system and how to simulate and evaluate the obtained policy before implementing it in real life. The sensitivity of the methodology is analyzed under several cost values, and the methodology is compared to other predefined policies. The results show that the policies generated via the POMDP solver perform better than the predefined policies.
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    A DBN based prognosis model for a complex dynamic system: a case study in a thermal power plant
    (Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2018-08-15) Özgür Ünlüakın, Demet; Kıvanç, İpek; Türkali, Busenur; Aksezer, Sezgin Çağlar
    With the development of industry, complexity of systems and equipment has increased extensively. This results in the introduction of many interdependencies (stochastic, structural and economic) among the components of systems. Neglecting these interdependencies, when planning maintenance actions, leads to undesirable outcomes such as prolonged downtime and higher costs. That is why a multi-component system approach needs to be taken into account in maintenance planning models. However, maintenance planning is a difficult task in multi-component systems because of their complexities. Energy production systems are notable examples of such complex structures consisting of many interacting components. Maintenance planning is extremely crucial for this sector since any unexpected malfunction leads to very serious costs. Therefore, the aim of this study is to formulate the maintenance problem of a multi-component dynamic system in thermal power plants focusing on system reliability prognosis. Bayesian networks (BN) are probabilistic graphical models that have been extensively used to represent and model the causal relations. A dynamic Bayesian network (DBN) is an extended BN which has a temporal dimension. We propose to use DBNs to prognose the reliabilities of components and processes of a dynamic system in a thermal power plant and show that this representation is efficient to model the interdependencies and degradations in such a system.