Early detection of incipient faults is of vital importance to reducing maintenance costs, saving energy, and enhancing occupant comfort in buildings. Popular supervised learning models such as deep neural networks are considered promising due to their ability to directly learn from labeled fault data; however, it is kn…
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Improved anomaly detection for incipient faults using ensemble learning.
problem Difficulty in detecting milder anomalies due to similarity to normal conditions.
method Utilize uncertainty information from ensemble learning to identify misclassified incipient anomalies.
result Ensemble learning improves performance on incipient anomaly detection.
The Monte Carlo dropout method has proved to be a scalable and easy-to-use approach for estimating the uncertainty of deep neural network predictions. This approach was recently applied to Fault Detection and Di-agnosis (FDD) applications to improve the classification performance on incipient faults. In this paper, we …
This paper presents a novel and flexible solution for fault prediction based on data collected from SCADA system. Fault prediction is offered at two different levels based on a data-driven approach: (a) generic fault/status prediction and (b) specific fault class prediction, implemented by means of two different machin…
Ensemble learning improves anomaly detection for milder symptoms.
problem Difficulty in detecting incipient anomalies due to similarity to normal conditions.
method Utilize uncertainty information from ensemble learning to identify misclassified incipient anomalies.
result Ensemble learning methods show improved performance on incipient anomaly detection.
Prognostics or early detection of incipient faults is an important industrial challenge for condition-based and preventive maintenance. Physics-based approaches to modeling fault progression are infeasible due to multiple interacting components, uncontrolled environmental factors and observability constraints. Moreover…
On Accurate and Reliable Anomaly Detection for Gas Turbine Combustors: A Deep Learning Approachcs.LG
Monitoring gas turbine combustors health, in particular, early detecting abnormal behaviors and incipient faults, is critical in ensuring gas turbines operating efficiently and in preventing costly unplanned maintenance. One popular means of detecting combustor abnormalities is through continuously monitoring exhaust g…
It is important to identify the change point of a system's health status, which usually signifies an incipient fault under development. The One-Class Support Vector Machine (OC-SVM) is a popular machine learning model for anomaly detection and hence could be used for identifying change points; however, it is sometimes …
Develops a data-driven fault diagnosis framework for time-series data.
problem Fault diagnosis of dynamic systems using imbalanced and unknown fault classes.
method Kullback-Leibler divergence, data-driven fault classification, open-set classification.
result Framework handles imbalanced datasets, class overlapping, and unknown faults.
Meta-reinforcement learning improves fault-adaptive control efficiency.
problem Adaptive control under abrupt system faults with strict time constraints.
method Model-agnostic meta learning (MAML) with a fault library of prior policies.
result Improved sample efficiency and quick adaptation to new faults.
Ensemble models struggle with detecting mild faults.
problem Difficulty in detecting Intermediate-Severity faults due to their resemblance to normal conditions.
method Extensive experiments with ensemble models to identify and address common pitfalls.
result Designing more effective ensemble models for IS fault detection and diagnosis.
Ranger improves DNNs' fault resilience without re-computation.
problem Transient faults in DNNs cause errors, reducing reliability.
method Range restriction to transform critical faults to benign faults.
result Significant improvement in error resilience (3x to 50x) with no accuracy loss.
Residual generation helps diagnose engine faults using neural networks.
problem Fault diagnosis in engines with unknown classes and limited data.
method Grey-box recurrent neural networks incorporating physical insights.
result Improved fault classification and root cause identification.
TS-Fault benchmarks TSF models against structural faults.
problem Evaluating the robustness of time series forecasting models against structured events.
method TS-Fault uses parameterized fault scenarios with controllable difficulty.
result Three findings contradict common leaderboard intuition.
Paper proposes FTT-NAS to create fault-tolerant CNNs for edge devices.
problem Faults in edge devices affect deep learning applications.
method Formalized fault models, implemented FTT-NAS, incorporated FTT.
result Discovered CNNs outperform baseline architectures with fault tolerance.
Localization of unknown faults in industrial systems is a difficult task for data-driven diagnosis methods. The classification performance of many machine learning methods relies on the quality of training data. Unknown faults, for example faults not represented in training data, can be detected using, for example, ano…
The safety and resilience of fully autonomous vehicles (AVs) are of significant concern, as exemplified by several headline-making accidents. While AV development today involves verification, validation, and testing, end-to-end assessment of AV systems under accidental faults in realistic driving scenarios has been lar…
We introduce a differential geometric framework for describing families of quantum error-correcting codes and for understanding quantum fault tolerance. This work unifies the notion of topological fault tolerance with fault tolerance in other kinds of quantum error-correcting codes. In particular, we use fibre bundles …
Data-driven fault diagnostics of safety-critical systems often faces the challenge of a complete lack of labeled data associated with faulty system conditions (i.e., fault types) at training time. Since an unknown number and nature of fault types can arise during deployment, data-driven fault diagnostics in this scenar…
Generative model predicts vehicle faults up to 1000 hours in advance.
problem Forecasting vehicle faults for predictive maintenance.
method Generative model trained on US Army data, incorporating real-world factors.
result Highly accurate predictions of time to first fault.
Study designs neural networks for fault localization, state estimation, and optimal PMU placement in power systems.
problem Fault localization, state estimation, and optimal PMU placement in power systems.
method Designs and compares various neural networks for fault localization, builds machine learning schemes for state estimation and parameter estimation, and designs an algorithm for optimal PMU placement.
result Comprehensive comparison of neural networks for fault localization shows that Graphical Convolutional NN and Neural Graph-based ODE perform best.
New method detects bearing faults using multivariate statistical process control.
problem Early detection of bearing faults in rotating machinery.
method Multivariate statistical process control charts applied to Fourier transform features of fixed-time batches.
result Effectiveness in detecting bearing faults across different conditions.
Few-shot learning improves bearing fault diagnosis with limited data.
problem Challenges in collecting sufficient fault data for robust classifier training.
method Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML) for few-shot learning.
result Framework achieves up to 25% higher accuracy than Siamese network.
Quantum computing (QC) and deep learning techniques have attracted widespread attention in the recent years. This paper proposes QC-based deep learning methods for fault diagnosis that exploit their unique capabilities to overcome the computational challenges faced by conventional data-driven approaches performed on cl…
This paper proposes a novel Gaussian process approach to fault removal in time-series data. Fault removal does not delete the faulty signal data but, instead, massages the fault from the data. We assume that only one fault occurs at any one time and model the signal by two separate non-parametric Gaussian process model…
TensorFI injects faults in TensorFlow programs to assess their reliability.
problem Ensuring reliability of machine learning systems in safety-critical domains.
method TensorFI is a flexible fault injection framework for TensorFlow applications.
result TensorFI evaluates the resilience of 12 ML programs, including autonomous vehicle DNNs.
New PCA method detects faults using occupation kernels.
problem Fault detection in dynamical systems.
method Occupation kernel PCA for irregularly sampled data.
result Validation of reconstruction error approach for fault detection.
The cost of wind energy can be reduced by using SCADA data to detect faults in wind turbine components. Normal behavior models are one of the main fault detection approaches, but there is a lack of consensus in how different input features affect the results. In this work, a new taxonomy based on the causal relations b…
Paper addresses fault-tolerance in distributed machine learning with stochastic gradient descent.
problem Fault-tolerance in distributed stochastic gradient descent (D-SGD) for machine learning.
method Proposes norm-based comparative gradient elimination (CGE) to robustify D-SGD against Byzantine faulty agents.
result CGE guarantees fault-tolerance against a bounded fraction of Byzantine agents under standard stochastic assumptions.
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are widely being adopted for safety-critical applications, e.g., healthcare and autonomous driving. Inherently, they are considered to be highly error-tolerant. However, recent studies have shown that hardware faults that impact the parameters of a DNN (e.g., weights) can have drastic impact…
Noncritical soft-faults and model deviations are a challenge for Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD) of resident Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). Such systems may have a faster performance degradation due to the permanent exposure to the marine environment, and constant monitoring of component conditions is requi…
In processing and manufacturing industries, there has been a large push to produce higher quality products and ensure maximum efficiency of processes. This requires approaches to effectively detect and resolve disturbances to ensure optimal operations. While the control system can compensate for many types of disturban…
We analyze the adversarial examples problem in terms of a model's fault tolerance with respect to its input. Whereas previous work focuses on arbitrarily strict threat models, i.e., -perturbations, we consider arbitrary valid inputs and propose an information-based characteristic for evaluating tolerance to diverse …
Recent trends focusing on Industry 4.0 concept and smart manufacturing arise a data-driven fault diagnosis as key topic in condition-based maintenance. Fault diagnosis is considered as an essential task in rotary machinery since possibility of an early detection and diagnosis of the faulty condition can save both time …
Diverse fault types, fast re-closures, and complicated transient states after a fault event make real-time fault location in power grids challenging. Existing localization techniques in this area rely on simplistic assumptions, such as static loads, or require much higher sampling rates or total measurement availabilit…
Fault-tolerant neural networks inspired by biological error correction codes.
problem Achieving reliable computation with unreliable neurons.
method Using biological error correction codes from grid cells in the mammalian cortex to develop a fault-tolerant neural network.
result Noisy biological neurons operate below a fault-tolerance threshold, suggesting a mechanism for reliable computation in the brain.
Power Transformer Fault Diagnosis with Intrinsic Time-scale Decomposition and XGBoost Classifiercs.LG
A method uses ITD and XGBoost for precise power transformer fault diagnosis.
problem Fault diagnosis of power transformers using DGA data.
method Ranking DGA parameters by skewness, extracting ITD features, and using an XGBoost classifier.
result The method achieves over 95% accuracy in classification.
Fault detection problem for closed loop uncertain dynamical systems, is investigated in this paper, using different deep learning based methods. Traditional classifier based method does not perform well, because of the inherent difficulty of detecting system level faults for closed loop dynamical system. Specifically, …
We adopted an approach based on an LSTM neural network to monitor and detect faults in industrial multivariate time series data. To validate the approach we created a Modelica model of part of a real gasoil plant. By introducing hacks into the logic of the Modelica model, we were able to generate both the roots and cau…
Despite the great achievements of deep neural networks (DNNs), the vulnerability of state-of-the-art DNNs raises security concerns of DNNs in many application domains requiring high reliability.We propose the fault sneaking attack on DNNs, where the adversary aims to misclassify certain input images into any target lab…
Thanks to digitization of industrial assets in fleets, the ambitious goal of transferring fault diagnosis models fromone machine to the other has raised great interest. Solving these domain adaptive transfer learning tasks has the potential to save large efforts on manually labeling data and modifying models for new ma…
The paper models and analyzes faults in TPU-based neural networks.
problem Faults in TPU matrix multiplication units cause errors in DNN inference.
method Formal model using DTMC, probabilistic model checking, and experiments.
result Classification accuracy is sensitive to fault type, location, and neural network layers.
The paper proposes an ensemble of convolution-based methods for fault detection in gearboxes.
problem Fault detection in planetary gearboxes using vibration signals.
method Ensemble of three convolution kernel-based methods (ROCKET, 1D CNN with ResNet, FCN).
result Outperforms other approaches with over 98.8% accuracy.
Deep Q-Learning for Self-Organizing Networks Fault Management and Radio Performance Improvementcs.NI
We propose an algorithm to automate fault management in an outdoor cellular network using deep reinforcement learning (RL) against wireless impairments. This algorithm enables the cellular network cluster to self-heal by allowing RL to learn how to improve the downlink signal to interference plus noise ratio through ex…
DeepDyve uses simpler neural networks to verify DNNs for faults.
problem Faults in DNNs, especially those not crafted by attackers.
method Pre-trained, simpler neural networks for dynamic verification.
result Reduces 90% of risks with 10% overhead.
This paper reviews quantum machine learning from NISQ to fault tolerance.
problem The challenges and opportunities in quantum machine learning.
method Comprehensive review of quantum machine learning concepts.
result Coverage of NISQ and fault-tolerant quantum computing approaches.
Multi-Stage Fault Warning for Large Electric Grids Using Anomaly Detection and Machine Learningcs.LG
In the monitoring of a complex electric grid, it is of paramount importance to provide operators with early warnings of anomalies detected on the network, along with a precise classification and diagnosis of the specific fault type. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-stage early warning system prototype for electr…
Fault detection in industrial plants is a hot research area as more and more sensor data are being collected throughout the industrial process. Automatic data-driven approaches are widely needed and seen as a promising area of investment. This paper proposes an effective machine learning algorithm to predict industrial…