Online machine learning-based predictive maintenance for the railway industry. Nguyen, M. H. L. Ph.D. Thesis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, June, 2023.
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Being an effective long-distance mass transit, the railway will continue to flourish for its limited carbon footprint in the environment. Ensuring the equipment's reliability and passenger safety brings forth the need for efficient maintenance. Apart from the prevalence of corrective and periodic maintenance, predictive maintenance has come into prominence lately. Recent advances in machine learning and the abundance of data drive practitioners to data-driven predictive maintenance. The common practice is to collect data to train a machine learning model, then deploy the model for production and keep it unchanged afterward. We argue that such practice is suboptimal on a data stream. The unboundedness of the stream makes the model prone to incomplete learning. Dynamic changes on the stream introduce novel concepts unseen by the model and decrease its accuracy. The velocity of the stream makes manual labeling infeasible and disables supervised learning algorithms. Therefore, switching from a static, offline learning paradigm to an adaptive, online one is necessary, especially when new generations of connected trains continuously generating sensor data have already been a reality. We investigate the applicability of online machine learning for predictive maintenance on typical complex systems in the railway. First, we develop InterCE as an active learning-based framework that extracts cycles from an unlabeled stream by interacting with a human expert. Then, we implement a long short-term memory autoencoder to transform the extracted cycles into feature vectors that are more compact yet remain representative. Finally, we design CheMoc as a framework that continuously monitors the condition of the systems using online adaptive clustering. Our methods are evaluated on the passenger access systems on two fleets of passenger trains managed by the national railway company SNCF of France.
@phdthesis{nguyen_online_2023,
	type = {phdthesis},
	title = {Online machine learning-based predictive maintenance for the railway industry},
	url = {https://theses.hal.science/tel-04164338},
	abstract = {Being an effective long-distance mass transit, the railway will continue to flourish for its limited carbon footprint in the environment. Ensuring the equipment's reliability and passenger safety brings forth the need for efficient maintenance. Apart from the prevalence of corrective and periodic maintenance, predictive maintenance has come into prominence lately. Recent advances in machine learning and the abundance of data drive practitioners to data-driven predictive maintenance. The common practice is to collect data to train a machine learning model, then deploy the model for production and keep it unchanged afterward. We argue that such practice is suboptimal on a data stream. The unboundedness of the stream makes the model prone to incomplete learning. Dynamic changes on the stream introduce novel concepts unseen by the model and decrease its accuracy. The velocity of the stream makes manual labeling infeasible and disables supervised learning algorithms. Therefore, switching from a static, offline learning paradigm to an adaptive, online one is necessary, especially when new generations of connected trains continuously generating sensor data have already been a reality. We investigate the applicability of online machine learning for predictive maintenance on typical complex systems in the railway. First, we develop InterCE as an active learning-based framework that extracts cycles from an unlabeled stream by interacting with a human expert. Then, we implement a long short-term memory autoencoder to transform the extracted cycles into feature vectors that are more compact yet remain representative. Finally, we design CheMoc as a framework that continuously monitors the condition of the systems using online adaptive clustering. Our methods are evaluated on the passenger access systems on two fleets of passenger trains managed by the national railway company SNCF of France.},
	language = {en},
	urldate = {2023-09-15},
	school = {Institut Polytechnique de Paris},
	author = {Nguyen, Minh Huong Le},
	month = jun,
	year = {2023},
}

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