“…These methods can be divided into model-based (or physical-based), knowledge-based, data-driven, and hybrid methods. The model-based methods utilize physical/chemistry knowledge to describe the degradation of specific systems, such as rotating machinery (Wu et al, 2017a(Wu et al, , 2017b, lithium-ion batteries (Guha et al, 2017), and crack growth of electric equipment (Cadini et al, 2009). The knowledge-based methods predict the equip-ment failure by comparing with structured rules and knowledge, such as Expert System (Biagetti and Sciubba, 2004) and Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (Chen et al, 2013a).…”