A Novel Robust Semisupervised Classification Framework for Quality-Related Coupling Faults in Manufacturing Industries

Abstract

An imbalanced number of faulty and normal samples make the traditional supervised classification methods difficult to ensure their classification performance. Accordingly, semisupervised learning methods have recently become hotspots both in academic research and practical application domains. Different from previous schemes, this paper dedicates on the correlations, common features, and specific features among quality-related coupling faults in manufacturing industries. The main innovations are as follows: first, it is the first time to develop a robust semisupervised classification framework for quality-related coupling faults, which integrates semisupervised multitask feature selection and manifold learning; second, manifold structures and local discriminant information of unlabeled and limited labeled faulty samples are sufficiently explored to improve the classification performance; and third, correlations among quality-related coupling faults are accurately captured, which are crucial for understanding the uniqueness and relationships of them at the feature level. The proposed method is finally validated in a representative manufacturing industry, i.e., hot strip mill process, where detailed simulation processes are presented and better classification performance is shown compared with the existing approaches.