2023
Authors
Silva, MEP; Veloso, B; Gama, J;
Publication
MACHINE LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN DATABASES: APPLIED DATA SCIENCE AND DEMO TRACK, ECML PKDD 2023, PT VII
Abstract
The transition to Industry 4.0 provoked a transformation of industrial manufacturing with a significant leap in automation and intelligent systems. This paradigm shift has brought about a mindset that emphasizes predictive maintenance: detecting future failures when current behaviour of industrial processes and machines is thought to be normal. The constant monitoring of industrial equipment produces massive quantities of data that enables the application of machine learning approaches to this task. This study uses deep learning-based models to build a data-driven predictive maintenance framework for the air production unit (APU), a crucial system for the proper functioning of a Metro do Porto train. This public transport system moves thousands of people every day and train failures lead to delays and loss of trust by clients. Therefore, it is essential not only to detect APU failures before they occur to minimize negative impacts, but also to provide explanations for the failure warnings that can aid in decision-making processes. We propose an autoencoder architecture trained with an adversarial loss, known as the Wasserstein Autoencoder with Generative Adversarial Network (WAE-GAN), designed to detect sensor failures in systems connected to the APU. Our model can detect APU failures up to two hours before they occur, allowing timely intervention of the maintenance teams. We further augment our model with an explainability layer, by providing explanations generated by a rule-based model that focuses on rare events. Results show that our model is able to detect APU failures without any false alarms, fulfilling the requisites of Metro do Porto for early detection of the failures.
2023
Authors
Meira, J; Veloso, B; Bolón Canedo, V; Marreiros, G; Alonso Betanzos, A; Gama, J;
Publication
INTELLIGENT DATA ANALYSIS
Abstract
The emergence of the Industry 4.0 trend brings automation and data exchange to industrial manufacturing. Using computational systems and IoT devices allows businesses to collect and deal with vast volumes of sensorial and business process data. The growing and proliferation of big data and machine learning technologies enable strategic decisions based on the analyzed data. This study suggests a data-driven predictive maintenance framework for the air production unit (APU) system of a train of Metro do Porto. The proposed method assists in detecting failures and errors in machinery before they reach critical stages. We present an anomaly detection model following an unsupervised approach, combining the Half-Space-trees method with One Class K Nearest Neighbor, adapted to deal with data streams. We evaluate and compare our approach with the Half-Space-Trees method applied without the One Class K Nearest Neighbor combination. Our model produced few type-I errors, significantly increasing the value of precision when compared to the Half-Space-Trees model. Our proposal achieved high anomaly detection performance, predicting most of the catastrophic failures of the APU train system.
2023
Authors
Gama, J; Nowaczyk, S; Pashami, S; Ribeiro, RP; Nalepa, GJ; Veloso, B;
Publication
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 29TH ACM SIGKDD CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING, KDD 2023
Abstract
The field of Explainable Predictive Maintenance (PM) is concerned with developing methods that can clarify how AI systems operate in the PM domain. One of the challenges of creating maintenance plans is integrating AI output with human decision-making processes and expertise. For AI to be helpful and trustworthy, fault predictions must be contextualized and easily comprehensible to humans. This involves providing tailored explanations to different actors depending on their roles and needs. For example, engineers can be connected to technical installation blueprints, while managers can evaluate system downtime costs, and lawyers can assess safety-threatening failures' potential liability. In many industries, black-box AI systems analyze sensor data to predict failures by detecting anomalies and deviations from typical behavior with impressive accuracy. However, PM is just one part of a broader context that aims to identify the most probable causes, develop a recovery plan, and estimate remaining useful life while providing alternative solutions. Achieving this requires complex interactions among various actors in industrial and decision-making processes. Our tutorial explores current trends, promising research directions in Explainable AI (XAI) relevant to Explainable Predictive Maintenance (XPM), and future challenges and open issues on this topic. We will also present three case studies that highlight XPM's challenges in bus and train operations and steel factories.
2025
Authors
Leal, F; Veloso, B; Malheiro, B; Burguillo, JC;
Publication
EXPERT SYSTEMS
Abstract
Crowdsourced data streams are popular and extremely valuable in several domains, namely in tourism. Tourism crowdsourcing platforms rely on past tourist and business inputs to provide tailored recommendations to current users in real time. The continuous, open, dynamic and non-curated nature of the crowd-originated data demands specific stream mining techniques to support online profiling, recommendation, change detection and adaptation, explanation and evaluation. The sought techniques must, not only, continuously improve and adapt profiles and models; but must also be transparent, overcome biases, prioritize preferences, master huge data volumes and all in real time. This article surveys the state-of-art of adaptive and explainable stream recommendation, extends the taxonomy of explainable recommendations from the offline to the stream-based scenario, and identifies future research opportunities.
2023
Authors
Pashami, S; Nowaczyk, S; Fan, Y; Jakubowski, J; Paiva, N; Davari, N; Bobek, S; Jamshidi, S; Sarmadi, H; Alabdallah, A; Ribeiro, RP; Veloso, B; Mouchaweh, MS; Rajaoarisoa, LH; Nalepa, GJ; Gama, J;
Publication
CoRR
Abstract
2023
Authors
Kuk, M; Bobek, S; Veloso, B; Rajaoarisoa, LH; Nalepa, GJ;
Publication
ICCS (5)
Abstract
In an industrial setting, predicting the remaining useful life-time of equipment and systems is crucial for ensuring efficient operation, reducing downtime, and prolonging the life of costly assets. There are state-of-the-art machine learning methods supporting this task. However, in this paper, we argue, that both efficiency and understandability can be improved by the use of explainable AI methods that analyze the importance of features used by the machine learning model. In the paper, we analyze the feature importance before a failure occurs to identify events in which an increase in importance can be observed and based on that indicate attributes with the most influence on the failure. We demonstrate how the analyses of Shap values near the occurrence of failures can help identify the specific features that led to the failure. This in turn can help in identifying the root cause of the problem and developing strategies to prevent future failures. Additionally, it can be used to identify areas where maintenance or replacement is needed to prevent failure and prolong the useful life of a system.
The access to the final selection minute is only available to applicants.
Please check the confirmation e-mail of your application to obtain the access code.