scholarly journals A functional data analysis approach for the monitoring of ship CO2 emissions

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Capezza ◽  
Fabio Centofanti ◽  
Antonio Lepore ◽  
Biagio Palumbo

Abstract Sensing networks provide nowadays massive amounts of data that in many applications provide information about curves, surfaces and vary over a continuum, usually time, and thus, can be suitably modelled as functional data. Their proper modelling by means of functional data analysis approaches naturally addresses new challenges also arising in the statistical process monitoring (SPM). Motivated by an industrial application, the objective of the present paper is to provide the reader with a very transparent set of steps for the SPM of functional data in real-world case studies: i) identifying a finite dimensional model for the functional data, based on functional principal component analysis; ii) estimating the unknown parameters; iii) designing control charts on the estimated parameters, in a nonparametric framework. The proposed SPM procedure is applied to a real-case study from the maritime field in monitoring CO2 emissions from real navigation data of a roll-on/roll-off passenger cruise ship, i.e., a ship designed to carry both passengers and wheeled vehicles that are driven on and off the ship on their own wheels. We show different scenarios highlighting clear and interpretable indications that can be extracted from the data set and support the detection of anomalous voyages.

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 1766 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Leroy ◽  
Andy MARC ◽  
Olivier DUPAS ◽  
Jean Lionel REY ◽  
Servane Gey

Many data collected in sport science come from time dependent phenomenon. This article focuses on Functional Data Analysis (FDA), which study longitudinal data by modelling them as continuous functions. After a brief review of several FDA methods, some useful practical tools such as Functional Principal Component Analysis (FPCA) or functional clustering algorithms are presented and compared on simulated data. Finally, the problem of the detection of promising young swimmers is addressed through a curve clustering procedure on a real data set of performance progression curves. This study reveals that the fastest improvement of young swimmers generally appears before 16 years old. Moreover, several patterns of improvement are identified and the functional clustering procedure provides a useful detection tool.


This handbook presents the state-of-the-art of the statistics dealing with functional data analysis. With contributions from international experts in the field, it discusses a wide range of the most important statistical topics (classification, inference, factor-based analysis, regression modeling, resampling methods, time series, random processes) while also taking into account practical, methodological, and theoretical aspects of the problems. The book is organised into three sections. Part I deals with regression modeling and covers various statistical methods for functional data such as linear/nonparametric functional regression, varying coefficient models, and linear/nonparametric functional processes (i.e. functional time series). Part II considers related benchmark methods/tools for functional data analysis, including curve registration methods for preprocessing functional data, functional principal component analysis, and resampling/bootstrap methods. Finally, Part III examines some of the fundamental mathematical aspects of the infinite-dimensional setting, with a focus on the stochastic background and operatorial statistics: vector-valued function integration, spectral and random measures linked to stationary processes, operator geometry, vector integration and stochastic integration in Banach spaces, and operatorial statistics linked to quantum statistics.


2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (04) ◽  
pp. 1350033 ◽  
Author(s):  
JACOPO ALEOTTI ◽  
STEFANO CASELLI

This paper investigates the use of functional principal component analysis (FPCA) for automatic recognition of dynamic human arm gestures and robot imitation. FPCA is a statistical technique of functional data analysis that generalizes standard multivariate principal component analysis. Functional data analysis signals (e.g., gestures) are functions that are considered as observations of a random variable on a functional space. In particular, FPCA reduces the dimensionality of the input data by projecting them onto a finite-dimensional space spanned by a few prominent eigenfunctions. The main contribution of this work is the proposal of a novel technique for unsupervised clustering of training data and dynamic gesture recognition based on FPCA. FPCA has not been considered in previous studies on humanoid learning. The proposed approach has been evaluated in two experimental settings for motion capture. In the first setup single arm gestures are recognized from inertial sensors attached to the arm of the user. In the second setup the method is extended to two-arm gestures acquired from a range sensor. Recognized gestures are reproduced by a small humanoid robot. The FPCA method has also been compared to a high performance algorithm for gesture classification based on dynamic time warping (DTW). The FPCA algorithm achieves comparable results in both recognition rate and robustness to missing data, while it outperforms DTW in terms of efficiency in execution time.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Madrigal ◽  
Xiongtao Dai ◽  
Pantelis Z. Hadjipantelis

Single-cell epigenome assays produce sparsely sampled data, leading to coverage pooling across cells to increase resolution. Imputation of missing data using deep learning is available but requires intensive computation, and it has been applied only to DNA methylation obtained by single cell bisulfite sequencing. Here, sparsity in chromatin accessibility obtained by scNMT-seq is addressed using functional data analysis to fit sparsely sampled GpC coverage profiles of individual cells taking into account all the cells of the same cell-type or condition. For that, sparse functional principal component analysis (S-FPCA) is applied, and the principal components are used to estimate chromatin accessibility coverage in individual cells. This methodology can potentially be used with other single-cell assays with missing data such as scBS-seq, scNOME-seq, or scATAC-seq. The R package fdapace is available in CRAN, and R code used in this manuscript can be found at: http://github.com/pmb59/sparseSingleCell.


2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Sancho ◽  
C. Iglesias ◽  
J. Piñeiro ◽  
J. Martínez ◽  
J. J. Pastor ◽  
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2014 ◽  
Vol 615 ◽  
pp. 118-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joaquín Sancho ◽  
Jorge Pastor ◽  
Javier Martínez ◽  
Miguel Angel García

Functional data appear in a multitude of industrial applications and processes. However, in many cases at present, such data continue to be studied from the conventional standpoint based on Statistical Process Control (SPC), losing the capacity of analyzing different aspects over the time. In this study is presented a Statistical Control Process based on functional data analysis to identify outliers or special causes of variability of harmonics appearing in power systems which can negatively impact on quality of electricity supply. The results obtained from the functional approach are compared with those obtained with conventional Statistical Process Control that has been done firstly.


2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 594-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thejas Gopal Krishne Urs ◽  
Karthik Bharath ◽  
Sangappa Yallappa ◽  
Somashekar Rudrappa

This article presents a novel method, based on functional data analysis, to analyse measurements of structural parameters of polymers and polymer composites. The method is demonstrated using newly developed biodegradable conducting polymer composites prepared via a solution casting technique. The measurements of the macro- and microstructural parameters that are used in the characterization of these films are obtained using X-ray diffraction, an impedance analyser and a UV–vis spectrometer. A functional representation of the measured values of the parameters at different dopant concentrations is adopted by viewing them as realizations of a continuous-time stochastic process observed with measurement error. This allows one to estimate the mean functional relationship between a parameter and the dopant concentration. A functional version of principal component analysis is performed, by which the major modes of variation are discovered and the correlations of parameter values at different concentrations are estimated. This provides insight into local and global features of the relationship between these parameters. Some comments are made on how the parameters vary as a function of dopant concentration.


2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 719-749
Author(s):  
Eduardo Doval ◽  
Pedro Delicado

We propose new methods for identifying and classifying aberrant response patterns (ARPs) by means of functional data analysis. These methods take the person response function (PRF) of an individual and compare it with the pattern that would correspond to a generic individual of the same ability according to the item-person response surface. ARPs correspond to atypical difference functions. The ARP classification is done with functional data clustering applied to the PRFs identified as ARP. We apply these methods to two sets of simulated data (the first is used to illustrate the ARP identification methods and the second demonstrates classification of the response patterns flagged as ARP) and a real data set (a Grade 12 science assessment test, SAT, with 32 items answered by 600 examinees). For comparative purposes, ARPs are also identified with three nonparametric person-fit indices (Ht, Modified Caution Index, and ZU3). Our results indicate that the ARP detection ability of one of our proposed methods is comparable to that of person-fit indices. Moreover, the proposed classification methods enable ARP associated with either spuriously low or spuriously high scores to be distinguished.


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