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Most previous methods do not adequately account for the epistemic uncertainty caused by asynchronous sampling, while others have strong assumption constraints, such as limiting the positional deviation of sampling points to a fixed threshold, which biases the results considerably. To address the issue, an uncertain ellipse model based on the uncertain theory is proposed to model the location of sampling points as an observation drawn from an uncertain distribution. Based on this, we propose a novel and effective similarity measure metric for any two degradation trajectories. Then, the Stacked Denoising Autoencoder (SDA) model is proposed for RUL prediction, in which the models can be first trained on the most similar degradation data and then fine-tuned by the target dataset. 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