Research Article

Optimal Cost-Effective Maintenance Policy for a Helicopter Gearbox Early Fault Detection under Varying Load

Table 3

Model parameters estimation with EM algorithm using different initial values.

ParametersInitial valuesFirst iterationSecond iterationLast iteration

0.50.31760.89201.0000
0.50.68240.1080
5332
5222
0.30.26630.21990.2070
−1.98−1.53−1.32