Bio

Academic Background

• PhD (2007), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA
• MS (2003), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA
• BTech (2001), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

Research Interests

• Data-driven algorithms for prognostics
• Evaluating performance of prognostics algorithms
• Requirements specifications for prognostics
• Structural Health Management (SHM): Prognostics for Composites
• Actuator Prognostics
• Automatic control reconfiguration using prognostics information

Publications

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Patents

• Saha, B., Goebel, K., Saxena, A., Celaya, J., “Decomposition Technique for Remaining Useful Life Prediction” Application Serial. No., 12/454,024, Filed: May 05 2009.

Journal Publications

• Saxena, A., Celaya, J., Saha, B., Saha, S., Goebel, K., “Metrics for Offline Evaluation of Prognostics Performance”, International Journal of Prognostics and Health Management (IJPHM), vol.1(1) 2010. [Download]
• Guan, X., Jha, R., Liu, Y., Saxena, A., Celaya, J., Goebel, K., “Comparison of Two Probabilistic Fatigue Damage Assessment Approaches Using Prognostic Performance Metrics”, Accepted for the International Journal of the Prognostics and Health Management, 2010.
• Balaban, E., Saxena, A., Bansal, P., Goebel, K., and Curran, S., “Modeling, Detection, and Disambiguation of Sensor Faults for Aerospace Applications”, accepted for publication in IEEE Sensors Journal, Jan. 2009. [Download]
• Zhang, B., Khawaja, T., Patrick, R., Vachtsevanos, G.J., Orchard, M.E., and Saxena, A.,“Application of Blind Deconvolution Denoising in Failure Prognosis”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 58, Issue. 2, pp. 303-310, 2009.
• Saxena. A., Saad, A.," Evolving an Artificial Neural Network Classifier for Condition Monitoring of Rotating Mechanical Systems", Applied Soft Computing, Volume 7, Issue 1, January 2007, Pages 441-454.
• Zhang, B., Khawaja, T., Patrick, R., Vachtsevanos, G.J., Orchard, M.E., and Saxena, A., “A Novel Blind De-convolution De-Noising Scheme in Failure Prognosis”, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement & Control, Vol. 32, Issue. 1, pp. 3-30, 2010.

Book Chapters & Magazine Articles

• A. Saxena, A. Saad, “Genetic Algorithms for Artificial Neural Net-based Condition Monitoring System Design for Rotating Mechanical Systems”, Advances in Soft Computing, in Applied Soft Computing Technologies: The Challenge of Complexity, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, Vol. 34, pp. 135-149, 2006. [Download]
• Zhang, B., Khawaja, T., Patrick, R., Vachtsevanos, G.J., Orchard, M.E., and Saxena, A., “A Novel Blind Deconvolution De-Noising Scheme in Failure Prognosis, International Series on Microprocessor-Based and Intelligent Systems Engineering”, Applications of Intelligent Control to Engineering Systems Vol. 39, Springer Netherlands, pp 37-63, 2009.
• Zhang, B., Khawaja, T., Patrick, R., Vachtsevanos, G.J., Orchard, M.E., and Saxena, A.,“Application of Blind Deconvolution Denoising in Failure Prognosis”, book chapter#3 in “Applications of Intelligent Control to Engineering Systems”, Ed. K. Valavanis, Springer, 2009.
• Goebel, K., Saha,B., Saxena, A., Celaya, J. R. , Christopherson, J. P., "Prognostics in Battery Health Management", IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine, Vol. 11(4), pp. 33-40, August 2008.
• Saxena, A., Wu, B., Vachtsevanos, G." A Hybrid Reasoning Architecture for Fleet Vehicle Maintenance", IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine, Vol. 9( 4), pp. 29-36, August 2006.
• L.G. Barajas, A. Kansal, A. Saxena, M. Egerstedt, A Goldstein, and E.W. Kamen, " Modeling and Control of SMT Manufacturing Lines Using Hybrid Dynamic Systems", Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, Springer-Verlag, Prague, The Czech Republic, April 2003.

Conference Publications

• Celaya, J., Saxena, A., Saha, H.,Goebel, K., "Prognostics of Power MOSFETs under Thermal Stress Accelerated Aging using Data-Driven and Model-Based Methodologies", Third Annual Conference of the PHM Society (PHM11), Montreal Canada, September 2011. [Download]
• Saxena, A., Goebel, K., Larrosa, C., Janapati, V., Roy, S., Chang, F-K., "Accelerated Aging Experiments for Prognostics of Damage Growth in Composite Materials", in Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, pp: 1283-1291, Stanford CA, September 2011
• Celaya, J., Saxena, A., Vashchenko, V., Saha, H.,Goebel, K., "Prognostics of power MOSFET ", IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD), pp: 160-163, San Diego CA, May 2011 [Link]
• Balaban, E., Saxena, A., Narasimhan, S., Roychoudhury, I., Goebel, K., "Experimental Validation of a Prognostic Health Management System for Electro-Mechanical Actuators", in Proceedings of the AIAA Infotech@Aerospace, St. Louis, Missouri, March 2011 [Download]
• Liu, P., Sxaena, A., Goebel, K., Saha, B., and Wang, W., “An Adaptive Recurrent Neural Network for Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Lithium-ion Batteries”, Second Annual Conference of the PHM Society (PHM10), Portland OR, October 2010. [Download]
• Celaya, J., Saxena, A., Wysocki, P., Saha, S., Goebel, K., “Towards Prognostics of Power MOSFETs: Accelerated Aging and Precursors of Failure” Second Annual Conference of the PHM Society, Portland OR, October 2010. [Download]
• Balaban, E., Saxena, A., Narasimhan, S., Roychoudhury, I., Goebel, K., Koopmans, M., “Airborne Electro-Mechanical Actuator Test Stand for Development of Prognostic Health Management Systems” Second Annual Conference of the PHM Society, Portland OR, October 2010. [Download]
• Narasimhan, S., Roychoudhury, I., Balaban, E., Saxena, A., "Combining Model-Based and Feature-Driven Diagnosis Approaches - A Case Study on Electromechanical Actuators", 21st International Workshop on the Principles of Diagnostics (DX10), Portland OR, October 2010. [Download]
• Saxena, A., Celaya, J., Saha, B., Saha, H., Roychoudhury, I., Goebel, K., “Requirements Specification for Prognostics Performance – An Overview”, AIAA Infotech @ Aerospace, Atlanta GA, Apr. 2010.
• Saxena, A., Celaya, J. Saha, B., Saha, S., Goebel, K., “Evaluating Prognostics Performance for Algorithms Incorporating Uncertainty Estimates”, IEEE Aerospace Conference 2010, Big Sky MT, Mar 2010
• Saha, S., Saha, B., Saxena, A., Goebel, K., “Distributed Prognostic Health Management With Gaussian Process Regression”, to appear in IEEE Aerospace Conference 2010, Big Sky MT, Mar 2010.
• Saxena, A., Celaya, J. Saha, B., Saha, S., Goebel, K., “On Applying the Prognostic Performance Metrics”, Annual conference of the PHM Society, PHM09 San Diego, Sept 27-Oct 1, 2009. [Download]
• Balaban, E., Saxena, A., Goebel, K., Byington, C., Watson, M., Bharadwaj, S., Smith, M., Amin, S., “Experimental Data Collection and Modeling for Nominal and Fault Conditions on Electro-Mechanical Actuators", Annual Conference of the PHM Society, PHM09 San Diego, Sept 27-Oct 1, 2009. [Download]
• Guan, X., Liu, Y., Saxena, A., Celaya, J., Goebel, K., “Entropy-based Probabilistic Fatigue Damage Prognosis and Algorithmic Performance Comparison” Annual Conference of the PHM Society, PHM09 San Diego, Sept 27-Oct 1, 2009.
• Brown, D.W., Georgoulas, G., Bole, B., Pei, H., Orchard, M., Tang, L., Saha, B, Saxena, A., Goebel, K., Vachtsevanos, G. “Prognostics Enhanced Reconfigurable Control of Electro-Mechanical Actuators”, Annual Conference of the PHM Society, PHM09 San Diego, Sept 27-Oct 1, 2009.
• Saxena, A., Celaya, J., Saha, B., Saha, S., and Goebel, K., “Evaluating Algorithm Performance Metrics Tailored for Prognostics”, IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky MT, pp. 1-13,.Mar 2009. [Download]
• Balaban, E., Saxena, A, .Bansal, P., Goebel, K.F., Stoelting, P, Curran, S., "A Diagnostic Approach for Electro-Mechanical Actuators in Aerospace Systems," Aerospace conference, 2009 IEEE ,Big Sky MT, pp. 1-13,.Mar 2009. [Download]
• Saxena, A., Celaya, J., Balaban, E., Goebel, K., Saha, B., Saha, S., and Schwabacher, M., “Metrics for Evaluating Performance of Prognostics Techniques”, 1st International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management (PHM08), Denver CO, pp. 1-17, Oct 2008. (Best Paper Award)
• Saxena, A., Goebel, K., Simon, D., Eklund, N., “Damage Propagation Modeling for Aircraft Engine Run-to-Failure Simulation”, 1st International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management (PHM08), Denver CO, pp. 1-9, Oct 2008.
• Tang, L., Kacprzynski, G.J., Goebel, K., Saxena, A., Saha,B., and Vachtsevanos,G, “Prognostics-Enhanced Automated Contingency Management for Advanced Autonomous Systems”, 1st International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management (PHM08), Denver CO, Oct 2008.
• Goebel, K., Saha, B., and Saxena, A., “A Comparison of Three Data-Driven Techniques for Prognostics”, Proceedings of the 62nd Meeting of the Society For Machinery Failure Prevention Technology (MFPT), pp. 119-131, Virginia Beach VA, May 2008.
• Zhang, B., Georgoulas, G., Orchard,M., Saxena, A., Brown, D., Vachtsevanos, G., and Liang, S., “Roller Element Bearing Feature Extraction and Anomaly Detection Based on Vibration Monitoring”, 16th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Ajaccio France, 2008.
• B. Zhang, T. Khawaja, R.Patrick, G.Vachtsevanos, M.Orchard, and Saxena, A., “Use of Blind Deconvolution De-Noising Scheme in Failure Prognosis”, IEEE Autotestcon07, pp. 561-566, Sept 17-20, 2007.
• Tang, L., Saxena, A., Orchard, M.E., Kacprzynski, G.J., Vachtsevanos, G., and Patterson-Hine, A., “Simulation-based Design and Validation of Automated Contingency Management for Propulsion Systems”, in Proc. IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana., pp. 1-11, Mar. 3-10, 2007.
• Saxena, A., and Vachtsevanos, G., "Optimum Feature Selection and Extraction for Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis", in Proceedings of the 2007 AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Prognostics, November 9-11, 2007, Arlington, VA.
• Tang, L., Kacprzynski, G., Goebel, K., Reimann, J., Orchard, M., Saxena, A., Saha, B., “Prognostics in the Control Loop”, in Proceedings of the 2007 AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Prognostics, November 9-11, 2007, Arlington, VA.
• A. Saxena, M. E. Orchard, B. Zhang, G. Vachtsevanos, L. Tang, Y. Lee, and Y. Wardi, “Automated Contingency Management for Propulsion Systems,” in Proc. European Control Conference. Kos, Greece 2-5 July, 2007.
• Saxena, A., B. Wu, G. Vachtsevanos, " Integrated Diagnosis and Prognosis Architecture for Fleet Vehicles Using Dynamic Case Based Reasoning", Proceedings of the IEEE Autotestcon 2005, pp. 96-102, 2005 (Best Paper Award)
• Saxena, A.,and G. Vachtsevanos, " Processing Textual Information from Industrial Systems using Semantic Networks" 2nd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI 2005), Pune India, December 20-22, 2005.
• Saxena, A., Wu, B., Vachtsevanos, G., “A Methodology for Analyzing Vibration Data from Planetary Gear Systems Using Complex Morlet Wavelets”, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Vol. 7, pp. 4730 – 4735, 2005.
• Wu, B., Saxena, A., R. Patrick, G. Vachtsevanos, " Vibration Monitoring for Fault Diagnosis of Helicopter Planetary Gears”, 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, July 3-8, 2005
• Wu, B., Saxena, A., Khawaja, T.S., Patrick, R., Vachtsevanos, G., Sparis, P., “An Approach to Fault Diagnosis of Helicopter Planetary Gears” Proceedings of the IEEE Autotestcon 04, pp. 475 – 481, 20-23 Sept. 2004.
• Saxena, A.,and A. Saad, “Fault Diagnosis in Rotating Mechanical Systems Using Self-Organizing Maps”, Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering (ANNIE), St. Louis MO, Nov 7-10, 2004.
• Saxena, A.,and A. Saad, “Genetic Algorithms for ANN-Based Condition Monitoring System Design for Rotating Mechanical Systems”, 9th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (WSC9), Sept 20th – Oct. 8, 2004.
• H. Berenji, Y. Wang, and Saxena, A., “Dynamic Case-Based Reasoning in Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis”, Symposium: AI for Prognostics, 14th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE '05), Reno NV, pp 845-850, May 25, 2005.
• Saxena, A.,and J.L., Dorrity, “Online Analysis of Textile Card Web Density”, Proceedings of ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE’03), Washington, D.C., Nov. 16-21, 2003.