Abstract

The online quality variables of soft sensors contribute greatly to obtaining immediate process information. The complex correlations between a large number of process variables inherited from the dynamic and nonlinear characteristics of chemical processes put more challenges on constructing soft-sensor models. Past developed steady-state soft sensors are not reliable for dynamic operating systems. Unequal sampling rates for the process and quality data cause missing values of quality data at some time points. This paper proposes a semi-supervised latent dynamic variational autoencoder to learn features between the process and quality data. A prediction network is constructed to generate artificial quality values for model training. Then the process and quality data are compressed into the latent space and the temporal relation is modeled in the clean latent space. The proposed method is compared with the conventional method for quality prediction in a numerical case and an industrial case.

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