Complex dynamic process monitoring method based on slow feature analysis model of multi-subspace partitioning

Abstract

This study presents an ensemble monitoring strategy based on slow feature analysis (SFA) model of multi-subspace partitioning for dynamic large-scale process. SFA can effectively extract the various dynamics of process data, where the relationship between process data and slow features (SFs) can be revealed by transformation matrix. The similar projecting directions represent similar importance of variables, and corresponding latent variables (LVs) will show similar monitoring behavior. Several LV subspaces are obtained by dividing the transformation vectors with higher similarity into the same sub-block automatically based on the defined process variable related index and hierarchical clustering, which can avoid the problems of information loss and the selection of SFs. Then, the S2 statistics constructed in each subspaces are integrated by support vector data description to show an intuitive detection results. Experiments on Tennessee Eastman benchmark process and wastewater treatment process have validated the proposed strategy’s effectiveness and excellence.