Concurrent control chart patterns recognition with singular spectrum analysis and support vector machine

  • Authors:
  • Liangjun Xie;Nong Gu;Dalong Li;Zhiqiang Cao;Min Tan;Saeid Nahavandi

  • Affiliations:
  • Schlumberger Limited, 1310 Rankin Road, Houston, TX 77073, USA;Centre for Intelligent Systems Research, Deakin University, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, VIC 3216, Australia;Hewlett-Packard, 11445 Compaq Center Dr. West, Houston, TX 77070, USA;State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China;State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China;Centre for Intelligent Systems Research, Deakin University, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, VIC 3216, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Industrial Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Since abnormal control chart patterns (CCPs) are indicators of production processes being out-of-control, it is a critical task to recognize these patterns effectively based on process measurements. Most methods on CCP recognition assume that the process data only suffers from single type of unnatural pattern. In reality, the observed process data could be the combination of several basic patterns, which leads to severe performance degradations in these methods. To address this problem, some independent component analysis (ICA) based schemes have been proposed. However, some limitations are observed in these algorithms, such as lacking of the capability of monitoring univariate processes with only one key measurement, misclassifications caused by the inherent permutation and scaling ambiguities, and inconsistent solution. This paper proposes a novel hybrid approach based on singular spectrum analysis (SSA) and support vector machine (SVM) to identify concurrent CCPs. In the proposed method, the observed data is first separated by SSA into multiple basic components, and then these separated components are classified by SVM for pattern recognition. The scheme is suitable for univariate concurrent CCPs identification, and the results are stable since it does not have shortcomings found in the ICA-based schemes. Furthermore, it has good generalization performance of dealing with the small samples. Superior performance of the proposed algorithm is achieved in simulations.