Full Graph Autoencoder for One-Class Group Anomaly Detection of IIoT System

Abstract

With the increasing automation and integration of equipment, it is urgent to carry out anomaly detection (AD) for the large-scale system to ensure security, in virtue of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Recently developed intelligent methods focus on component-level diagnosis or detection, resulting in difficulty in the health assessment of system with multisource data coupling. In addition, data-driven methods rarely emphasize the use of knowledge from the real physical system. In this article, we propose a full graph autoencoder to perform one-class group AD for the large-scale IIoT system. The proposed model takes as input data of normal status at training and only comprises several normalized graph convolutional layers, thus it is simple and fast. Different from Euclidean-based methods, the proposed model can handle various irregular structures together. For graph learning, multivariate time series are converted into graph data fused with prior knowledge. To achieve AD, we propose to reconstruct the full graph for the first time to obtain a reliable anomaly score. Besides, we extend a variational model to fully learn the graph representation. Moreover, a graph augmentation operation is employed to improve the accuracy and robustness. The proposed models are evaluated on two multisensor data sets from liquid rocket engine (LRE) systems, and the experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and generalization of the IIoT system.