scholarly journals Aircraft Fleet Health Monitoring with Anomaly Detection Techniques

Aerospace ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Luis Basora ◽  
Paloma Bry ◽  
Xavier Olive ◽  
Floris Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Anomaly Detection ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Aviation Industry ◽  
Nominal Data ◽  
Detection Techniques ◽  
Aircraft System ◽  
Anomaly Score

Predictive maintenance has received considerable attention in the aviation industry where costs, system availability and reliability are major concerns. In spite of recent advances, effective health monitoring and prognostics for the scheduling of condition-based maintenance operations is still very challenging. The increasing availability of maintenance and operational data along with recent progress made in machine learning has boosted the development of data-driven prognostics and health management (PHM) models. In this paper, we describe the data workflow in place at an airline for the maintenance of an aircraft system and highlight the difficulties related to a proper labelling of the health status of such systems, resulting in a poor suitability of supervised learning techniques. We focus on investigating the feasibility and the potential of semi-supervised anomaly detection methods for the health monitoring of a real aircraft system. Proposed methods are evaluated on large volumes of real sensor data from a cooling unit system on a modern wide body aircraft from a major European airline. For the sake of confidentiality, data has been anonymized and only few technical and operational details about the system had been made available. We trained several deep neural network autoencoder architectures on nominal data and used the anomaly scores to calculate a health indicator. Results suggest that high anomaly scores are correlated with identified failures in the maintenance logs. Also, some situations see an increase in the anomaly score for several flights prior to the system’s failure, which paves a natural way for early fault identification.

scholarly journals Recent Advances in Anomaly Detection Methods Applied to Aviation

Aerospace ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Basora ◽  
Xavier Olive ◽  
Thomas Dubot
Keyword(s):  
Anomaly Detection ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Detection Techniques ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Flight Operations

Anomaly detection is an active area of research with numerous methods and applications. This survey reviews the state-of-the-art of data-driven anomaly detection techniques and their application to the aviation domain. After a brief introduction to the main traditional data-driven methods for anomaly detection, we review the recent advances in the area of neural networks, deep learning and temporal-logic based learning. In particular, we cover unsupervised techniques applicable to time series data because of their relevance to the aviation domain, where the lack of labeled data is the most usual case, and the nature of flight trajectories and sensor data is sequential, or temporal. The advantages and disadvantages of each method are presented in terms of computational efficiency and detection efficacy. The second part of the survey explores the application of anomaly detection techniques to aviation and their contributions to the improvement of the safety and performance of flight operations and aviation systems. As far as we know, some of the presented methods have not yet found an application in the aviation domain. We review applications ranging from the identification of significant operational events in air traffic operations to the prediction of potential aviation system failures for predictive maintenance.

scholarly journals Recent Advances in Anomaly Detection Methods applied to Aviation

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Basora ◽  
Xavier Olive ◽  
Thomas Dubot
Keyword(s):  
Anomaly Detection ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Detection Techniques ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Flight Operations

Anomaly detection is an active area of research with numerous methods and applications. This survey reviews the state-of-the-art of data-driven anomaly detection techniques and their application to the the aviation domain. After a brief introduction to the main traditional data-driven methods for anomaly detection, we review the recent advances in the area of neural networks, deep learning and temporal-logic based learning. We cover especially unsupervised techniques applicable to time series data because of their relevance to the aviation domain, where the lack of labeled data is the most usual case, and the nature of flight trajectories and sensor data is sequential, or temporal. The advantages and disadvantages of each method are presented in terms of computational efficiency and detection efficacy. The second part of the survey explores the application of anomaly detection techniques to aviation and their contributions to the improvement of the safety and performance of flight operations and aviation systems. As far as we know, some of the presented methods have not yet found an application in the aviation domain. We review applications ranging from the identification of significant operational events in air traffic operations to the prediction of potential aviation system failures for predictive maintenance.

scholarly journals Indirectly Supervised Anomaly Detection of Clinically Meaningful Health Events from Smart Home Data

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Jessamyn Dahmen ◽  
Diane J. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Anomaly Detection ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
Bayesian Optimization ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Detection Techniques ◽  
Health Events ◽  
Warm Start ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Unsupervised Algorithms

Anomaly detection techniques can extract a wealth of information about unusual events. Unfortunately, these methods yield an abundance of findings that are not of interest, obscuring relevant anomalies. In this work, we improve upon traditional anomaly detection methods by introducing Isudra, an Indirectly Supervised Detector of Relevant Anomalies from time series data. Isudra employs Bayesian optimization to select time scales, features, base detector algorithms, and algorithm hyperparameters that increase true positive and decrease false positive detection. This optimization is driven by a small amount of example anomalies, driving an indirectly supervised approach to anomaly detection. Additionally, we enhance the approach by introducing a warm-start method that reduces optimization time between similar problems. We validate the feasibility of Isudra to detect clinically relevant behavior anomalies from over 2M sensor readings collected in five smart homes, reflecting 26 health events. Results indicate that indirectly supervised anomaly detection outperforms both supervised and unsupervised algorithms at detecting instances of health-related anomalies such as falls, nocturia, depression, and weakness.

Failure Modeling of a Propulsion Subsystem: Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Approaches to Anomaly Detection

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (11) ◽  
pp. 1940019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Cheung ◽  
Julio J. Valdés ◽  
Richard Salas Chavez ◽  
Srishti Sehgal
Keyword(s):  
Anomaly Detection ◽  
Clustering Algorithm ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Training Models ◽  
Detection Techniques ◽  
Failure Modeling ◽  
Supervised Classifiers ◽  
Unsupervised Anomaly Detection

In this work, the sensor data related to a diesel engine system and specifically its turbocharger subsystem were analyzed. An incident where the turbocharger seized was recorded by dozens of standard turbocharger-related sensors. By training models to distinguish between normal healthy operating conditions and deteriorated conditions, there is an opportunity to develop prognostic and predictive tools to ideally help prevent a similar occurrence in the future. Analysis of this event provides an opportunity to identify changes in equipment indicators with a known outcome. A number of data analysis tools were used to characterize the healthy and deteriorated states of the turbocharger system, including various supervised classification as well as semi-supervised and unsupervised anomaly detection techniques. The leader clustering algorithm was also implemented to reduce the amount of data to train and develop the models. This paper describes the results of this modeling process, validated by testing on healthy data from the same propulsion system and a second distinct one. Although this problem posed challenges due to the severely imbalanced class distribution, the supervised classifiers, in particular Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Random Forest (RF), performed very well in all metrics while the unsupervised anomaly detection models achieved near-perfect accuracy for identifying healthy turbocharger states.

scholarly journals A Novel Sensor Data Pre-Processing Methodology for the Internet of Things Using Anomaly Detection and Transfer-By-Subspace-Similarity Transformation

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (20) ◽  
pp. 4536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Zhong ◽  
Simon Fong ◽  
Shimin Hu ◽  
Raymond Wong ◽  
Weiwei Lin
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Anomaly Detection ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Quality Of Data ◽  
Data Mining Algorithms ◽  
Sensing Applications ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) and sensors are becoming increasingly popular, especially in monitoring large and ambient environments. Applications that embrace IoT and sensors often require mining the data feeds that are collected at frequent intervals for intelligence. Despite the fact that such sensor data are massive, most of the data contents are identical and repetitive; for example, human traffic in a park at night. Most of the traditional classification algorithms were originally formulated decades ago, and they were not designed to handle such sensor data effectively. Hence, the performance of the learned model is often poor because of the small granularity in classification and the sporadic patterns in the data. To improve the quality of data mining from the IoT data, a new pre-processing methodology based on subspace similarity detection is proposed. Our method can be well integrated with traditional data mining algorithms and anomaly detection methods. The pre-processing method is flexible for handling similar kinds of sensor data that are sporadic in nature that exist in many ambient sensing applications. The proposed methodology is evaluated by extensive experiment with a collection of classical data mining models. An improvement over the precision rate is shown by using the proposed method.

scholarly journals FuseAD: Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Streaming Sensors Data by Fusing Statistical and Deep Learning Models

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (11) ◽  
pp. 2451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohsin Munir ◽  
Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui ◽  
Muhammad Ali Chattha ◽  
Andreas Dengel ◽  
Sheraz Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Anomaly Detection ◽  
Internal State ◽  
Arima Model ◽  
Streaming Data ◽  
Detection Technique ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Detection Techniques ◽  
Unsupervised Anomaly Detection

The need for robust unsupervised anomaly detection in streaming data is increasing rapidly in the current era of smart devices, where enormous data are gathered from numerous sensors. These sensors record the internal state of a machine, the external environment, and the interaction of machines with other machines and humans. It is of prime importance to leverage this information in order to minimize downtime of machines, or even avoid downtime completely by constant monitoring. Since each device generates a different type of streaming data, it is normally the case that a specific kind of anomaly detection technique performs better than the others depending on the data type. For some types of data and use-cases, statistical anomaly detection techniques work better, whereas for others, deep learning-based techniques are preferred. In this paper, we present a novel anomaly detection technique, FuseAD, which takes advantage of both statistical and deep-learning-based approaches by fusing them together in a residual fashion. The obtained results show an increase in area under the curve (AUC) as compared to state-of-the-art anomaly detection methods when FuseAD is tested on a publicly available dataset (Yahoo Webscope benchmark). The obtained results advocate that this fusion-based technique can obtain the best of both worlds by combining their strengths and complementing their weaknesses. We also perform an ablation study to quantify the contribution of the individual components in FuseAD, i.e., the statistical ARIMA model as well as the deep-learning-based convolutional neural network (CNN) model.

scholarly journals Improving Spacecraft Health Monitoring with Automatic Anomaly Detection Techniques

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvain Fuertes ◽  
Gilles Picart ◽  
Jean-Yves Tourneret ◽  
Lotfi Chaari ◽  
André Ferrari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Anomaly Detection ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Detection Techniques

scholarly journals Survey of Flight Anomaly Detection Methods: Challenges and Opportunities

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivian Rowoli Igenewari ◽  
Zakwan Skaf ◽  
Ian K. Jennions
Keyword(s):  
Anomaly Detection ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Aviation Industry ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Current State ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Proactive Measures ◽  
Component Faults ◽  
Safety Enhancement

Safety enhancement is a major goal of the aviation industry owing to the predicted increase in air travel. There is also the need to prevent fatalities, increase reliability and reduce monetary costs suffered as a result of delays and accidents that still occur. Accidents today are complex as a result of many causal factors acting alone but more often as a combination with other contributing factors. In tackling this trend, proactive measures have been put in place to find hazardous combinations that occur during flights in order to mitigate them before accidents occur. Flight Anomaly Detection (AD) methods are aimed at highlighting abnormal occurrences of a flight, that are different from the norm. As an improvement on the current state-of-the-art method, previous works have proposed different AD techniques for detection of previously unknown flight risks such as component faults, aircraft operational inefficiencies and some abnormal crew behaviour. However, current AD methods individually have limitations that prevent them from detecting certain significant anomalies in flight data. This paper surveys current flight AD approaches, their strengths and limitations as well as brings to light the benefits of a hybrid AD method to extend previous work and find safety-critical events, particularly those related to abnormal crew activity: a class of events known to amount for a substantial number of accidents/incidents today. It also highlights another emerging AD application opportunity, its challenges and how AD is beneficial in addressing them.

scholarly journals Finding new physics without learning about it: anomaly detection as a tool for searches at colliders

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Crispim Romão ◽  
N. F. Castro ◽  
R. Pedro
Keyword(s):  
Anomaly Detection ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Support Vector Data Description ◽  
Vector Data ◽  
Detection Techniques ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
New Strategy

AbstractIn this paper we propose a new strategy, based on anomaly detection methods, to search for new physics phenomena at colliders independently of the details of such new events. For this purpose, machine learning techniques are trained using Standard Model events, with the corresponding outputs being sensitive to physics beyond it. We explore three novel AD methods in HEP: Isolation Forest, Histogram-Based Outlier Detection, and Deep Support Vector Data Description; alongside the most customary Autoencoder. In order to evaluate the sensitivity of the proposed approach, predictions from specific new physics models are considered and compared to those achieved when using fully supervised deep neural networks. A comparison between shallow and deep anomaly detection techniques is also presented. Our results demonstrate the potential of semi-supervised anomaly detection techniques to extensively explore the present and future hadron colliders’ data.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Unsupervised Anomaly Detection Methods in Sentiment Mining

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 1080-1085
Keyword(s):  
Anomaly Detection ◽  
Computation Time ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
Comparative Performance ◽  
Detection Techniques ◽  
Detection Algorithms ◽  
Sentiment Mining ◽  
Unsupervised Anomaly Detection

Anomaly detection has vital role in data preprocessing and also in the mining of outstanding points for marketing, network sensors, fraud detection, intrusion detection, stock market analysis. Recent studies have been found to concentrate more on outlier detection for real time datasets. Anomaly detection study is at present focuses on the expansion of innovative machine learning methods and on enhancing the computation time. Sentiment mining is the process to discover how people feel about a particular topic. Though many anomaly detection techniques have been proposed, it is also notable that the research focus lacks a comparative performance evaluation in sentiment mining datasets. In this study, three popular unsupervised anomaly detection algorithms such as density based, statistical based and cluster based anomaly detection methods are evaluated on movie review sentiment mining dataset. This paper will set a base for anomaly detection methods in sentiment mining research. The results show that density based (LOF) anomaly detection method suits best for the movie review sentiment dataset.

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