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Spatiotemporal Stacked Autoencoder based Soft Sensor Modeling for the Dow Data Challenge Problem

  • Xiuli Zhu
  • , Seshu Kumar Damarla
  • , Biao Huang*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Shanghai for Science and Technology
  • University of Alberta
  • Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering

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Abstract

Process data with characteristics such as strong nonlinearity, high dimensionality, cross-correlations and auto correlations pose a great challenge for data-driven soft sensor modeling. Albeit the conventional stacked Autoencoder (SAE) is able to learn low dimensional nonlinear features from the process data, it fails to extract spatial and temporal features. To overcome this shortcoming, in the present work, spatiotemporal SAE (STSAE) is proposed based on convolutional and LSTM layers. Lower dimensional nonlinear features (spatial and temporal) extracted from STSAE are used to build the soft sensor. The effectiveness of the STSAE-based soft sensor is demonstrated in an industrial case study, the Dow data challenge problem. For the purpose of comparison, soft sensor models based on popular machine learning algorithms are developed and applied to the industrial case study. The obtained results demonstrate that the proposed STSAE based soft sensor yields more accurate estimations for impurity level at the primary column outlet of Dow process refining system.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2023 IEEE SmartWorld, Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, Autonomous and Trusted Vehicles, Scalable Computing and Communications, Digital Twin, Privacy Computing and Data Security, Metaverse, SmartWorld/UIC/ATC/ScalCom/DigitalTwin/PCDS/Metaverse 2023
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9798350319804
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Externally publishedYes
Event9th IEEE Smart World Congress, SWC 2023 - Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Duration: 28 Aug 202331 Aug 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2023 IEEE SmartWorld, Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, Autonomous and Trusted Vehicles, Scalable Computing and Communications, Digital Twin, Privacy Computing and Data Security, Metaverse, SmartWorld/UIC/ATC/ScalCom/DigitalTwin/PCDS/Metaverse 2023

Conference

Conference9th IEEE Smart World Congress, SWC 2023
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityPortsmouth
Period28/08/2331/08/23

Keywords

  • autoencoder
  • CNN
  • Dow data challenge problem
  • LSTM
  • stacked Autoencoder

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