Transfer Dictionary Learning Method for Cross-Domain Multimode Process Monitoring and Fault Isolation

Abstract

Data-driven methods have shown its great latent capacity in the field of industrial process monitoring. However, the existing methods usually achieve good results under the assumption that the offline learning data and the online monitoring data are drawn from the same distribution. Unfortunately, in the industrial system, the assumption is often violated due to the harsh operating environment. Especially, with the increasing complexity and scale of industrial production, the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) data of the industrial production process often collected from different machines, seasons, or operating modes. In addition, due to the cost of manual data labeling and real-time requirement of process monitoring, the offline learning data, which was used to build the model, often have abundant source-domain data and insufficient target-domain data. Consequently, these methods have bad performance on the online monitoring data collected from the target domain. In order to make full use of the knowledge from the abundant source-domain data, a transfer dictionary learning method is proposed to address the cross-domain problem in this article. The proposed method can learn an initial dictionary from the abundant source-domain data, and then, the final dictionary is updated by incorporating the feature of insufficient target-domain data in a smooth subspace interpolation way. The effectiveness of the proposed method is evaluated through a numerical simulation case, a continuous stirred tank heater (CSTH) case, and a wind turbine system case, from which we can see the proposed method has a better performance compared with some state-of-the-art methods.