Deep Principal Component Analysis Based on Layerwise Feature Extraction and Its Application to Nonlinear Process Monitoring

Abstract

In order to deeply exploit intrinsic data feature information hidden among the process data, an improved kernel principal component analysis (KPCA) method is proposed, which is referred to as deep principal component analysis (DePCA). Specifically, motivated by the deep learning strategy, we design a hierarchical statistical model structure to extract multilayer data features, including both the linear and nonlinear principal components. To reduce the computation complexity in nonlinear feature extraction, the feature-samples’ selection technique is applied to build the sparse kernel model for DePCA. To integrate the monitoring statistics at each feature layer, Bayesian inference is used to transform the monitoring statistics into fault probabilities, and then, two probability-based DePCA monitoring statistics are constructed by weighting the fault probabilities at all the feature layers. Two case studies involving a simulated nonlinear system and the benchmark Tennessee Eastman process demonstrate the superior fault detection performance of the proposed DePCA method over the traditional KPCA-based methods.