Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

University of Houston System

Oussama Hattab

Imad Hassan Makki

Fakhreddine Landolsi

Matthew Franchek

Moadh Mallek

Reduced order modeling is used in the present systems and methods for monitoring the health of a system and is particularly useful in monitoring the health and estimating the remaining useful life of blow out preventer (BOP) annular used in an oil or gas well. A reduced order model is a linear low order characterization of the system that describes the annular behavior with a small number of parameters that can be interpreted physically. The reduced order model is then identified and adapted in real-time in order to detect the change in the system behavior and characteristics. This adaptation helps in drawing conclusions on diagnostics and prognostics of the physical system.

Model-based monitoring and useful life estimation for blowout preventer annulars

A vehicle computer includes a memory and a processor programmed to execute instructions stored in the memory. The instructions include receiving a wheel speed from a wheel speed sensor, receiving a vehicle speed from a vehicle speed sensor, determining a mean vibration magnitude in accordance with the wheel speed and the vehicle speed, and detecting a vibrating vehicle wheel based on the mean vibration magnitude.

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