Anomaly Event Detection for Seasonal and Drifting Equipment Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for detecting anomalous states in industrial equipment are limited in handling slow progressive changes, high oscillations, seasonal trends, and unknown anomalous states, leading to inefficiencies in plant operation and safety.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method using a machine learning model, such as LSTM, to calculate predicted behavior and compare it with actual behavior, combined with statistical learning to determine anomalous states, considering historical data and preprocessing for oscillations and trends.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If existing anomaly detection methods are used, then detection can be performed for equipment with distinct static operating states, but they fail to handle slow progressive changes, seasonal trends, high oscillations, and unknown anomalous states
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by transitioning from static operating state analysis to dynamic behavior prediction. The machine learning model learns temporal patterns and evolves predictions over time, enabling the system to adapt to slow progressive changes, seasonal trends, and high oscillations that static methods cannot capture. This dynamic approach allows the system to handle diverse operating conditions while maintaining reliable anomaly detection.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs parameter changes by using machine learning models that can adapt to varying data characteristics. The system adjusts its prediction parameters based on learned patterns from historical data, enabling it to handle different types of anomalies including unknown anomalous states. This flexibility in parameter adaptation resolves the contradiction between versatility and reliability.
2Measurement precision
If machine learning models are trained on historic operating data to predict component behavior, then detection accuracy improves, but computational complexity and data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-training machine learning models on historic operating data before deployment. This offline training phase prepares the model to make accurate predictions during operation, reducing real-time computational requirements. The system performs the complex learning task in advance, allowing for high detection accuracy without excessive ongoing computational complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses copying by creating a virtual model of the component's normal behavior through machine learning. This digital twin or predictive model replicates expected component behavior, allowing the system to compare actual behavior against the copied model without requiring complex real-time analysis of all possible operating conditions. This approach improves detection accuracy while managing computational complexity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the system analyzes equipment with non-distinct operating modes, then detection coverage increases, but output stability and consistency decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies feedback by using the machine learning model's predictions to continuously refine anomaly detection. The system compares predicted behavior with actual behavior, and this feedback loop enables stable and consistent outputs even for equipment with non-distinct operating modes. The model learns from ongoing performance data, maintaining output stability while expanding detection coverage.
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AI summary
Embodiments are directed to a computer-based tool that can identify an anomalous state of a component in a real-world environment, even if the component experiences gradual and/or seasonal trends. The tool receives data from sensors monitoring a component. The tool uses a trained machine learning model to calculate a predicted behavior of the monitored component. Actual behavior of the component, captured by current sensor readings, is compared to the predicted behavior of the component, calculated by the machine learning model, to compute a divergence. The computed divergence is used by a statistical learning method to determine if the component in the real-world environment is in an anomalous state.


