... A significant body of work on PHM for wind turbine subsystems exists. The key subsystems that the majority of this work focuses on includes: blades and rotor (Hameeda et al., 2009;Hyers, Mcgowan, Sullivan, Manwell, and Syrett, 2006;Nijssen, 2006;Tchakoua, Wamkeue, Ouhrouche, Slaoui-Hasnaoui, Tameghe, and Ekemb, 2014;Tchakoua, Wamkeue, Tameghe, and Ekemb, 2013), gearbox and bearings (Hameeda et al., 2009;Hussain & Gabbar, 2013;Hyers et al., 2006;Niknam, Thomas, Hines, and Sawhney, 2013;Plumley, Wilson, Kenyon, Andrew, Quail, and Athena, 2012;Qu, Bechhoefer, He, and Zhu, 2013;Tamilselvan, Wang, Sheng, and Twomey, 2013;Tchakoua et al., 2014;Tchakoua et al., 2013), generator (Hameeda et al., 2009;Hyers et al., 2006;Tchakoua et al., 2014;Tchakoua et al., 2013;Yang, Sheng, and Court, 2012) and tower (Adams, White, Rumsey, and Farrar, 2011;Chase, Danai, Lackner, and Manwell, 2013;Ciang, Lee, and Bang, 2008;Hameeda et al., 2009;Hyers et al., 2006;Tchakoua et al., 2014;Tchakoua et al., 2013). These works use the data from the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and other sensors. ...