Data Augmentation of Sensor Time Series using Time-varying Autoregressive Processes

Abstract

This work presents a novel data-centric solution for fault diagnostics and failure prognostics consisting of a data-augmentation method which is well suited for non-stationary mutivariate time-series data. The method, based on time-varying autoregressive processes, can be employed to extract key information from a limited number of samples and generate new artificial samples in a way that benefits the development of diagnostics and prognostics solutions. The proposed approach is tested based on three real-world datasets associated with failure diagnostics problems using two types of machine learning methods. Results indicate the proposed method improves performance in all tested cases.