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On-line anomaly detection with advanced independent component analysis of multi-variate residual signals from causal relation networks.

Lughofer, Edwin; Zavoianu, Alexandru-Ciprian; Pollak, Robert; Pratama, Mahardhika; Meyer-Heye, Pauline; Z�rrer, Helmut; Eitzinger, Christian; Radauer, Thomas

Authors

Edwin Lughofer

Robert Pollak

Mahardhika Pratama

Pauline Meyer-Heye

Helmut Z�rrer

Christian Eitzinger

Thomas Radauer



Abstract

Anomaly detection in todays industrial environments is an ambitious challenge to detect possible faults/problems which may turn into severe waste during production, defects, or systems components damage, at an early stage. Data-driven anomaly detection in multi-sensor networks rely on models which are extracted from multi-sensor measurements and which characterize the anomaly-free reference situation. Therefore, significant deviations to these models indicate potential anomalies. In this paper, we propose a new approach which is based on causal relation networks (CRNs) that represent the inner causes and effects between sensor channels (or sensor nodes) in form of partial sub-relations, and evaluate its functionality and performance on two distinct production phases within a micro-fluidic chip manufacturing scenario. The partial relations are modeled by non-linear (fuzzy) regression models for characterizing the (local) degree of influences of the single causes on the effects. An advanced analysis of the multi-variate residual signals, obtained from the partial relations in the CRNs, is conducted. It employs independent component analysis (ICA) to characterize hidden structures in the fused residuals through independent components (latent variables) as obtained through the demixing matrix. A significant change in the energy content of latent variables, detected through automated control limits, indicates an anomaly. Suppression of possible noise content in residuals—to decrease the likelihood of false alarms—is achieved by performing the residual analysis solely on the dominant parts of the demixing matrix. Our approach could detect anomalies in the process which caused bad quality chips (with the occurrence of malfunctions) with negligible delay based on the process data recorded by multiple sensors in two production phases: injection molding and bonding, which are independently carried out with completely different process parameter settings and on different machines (hence, can be seen as two distinct use cases). Our approach furthermore i.) produced lower false alarm rates than several related and well-known state-of-the-art methods for (unsupervised) anomaly detection, and ii.) also caused much lower parametrization efforts (in fact, none at all). Both aspects are essential for the useability of an anomaly detection approach.

Citation

LUGHOFER, E., ZAVOIANU, A.-C., POLLAK, R., PRATAMA, M., MEYER-HEYE, P., ZÖRRER, H., EITZINGER, C. and RADAUER, T. 2020. On-line anomaly detection with advanced independent component analysis of multi-variate residual signals from causal relation networks. Information sciences [online], 537, 425-451. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2020.06.034

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jun 11, 2020
Online Publication Date Jun 20, 2020
Publication Date Oct 31, 2020
Deposit Date Jul 9, 2020
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Information Sciences
Print ISSN 0020-0255
Electronic ISSN 1875-6291
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 537
Pages 425-451
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2020.06.034
Keywords On-line anomaly detection; Causal relation networks; Advanced multi-variate residual analysis; Dominant parts of independent component analysis; Automated control limits; On-line production systems
Public URL https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/943823

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