Data Availability Optimization for Cyber-Physical Systems

As the backbone of Industry 4.0, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) have attracted extensive attention from industry, academia, and government. Missing data is a common problem in CPS data processing and may cause incorrect results and eventually serious malfunction. Existing data availability optimization methods either rely on a large amount of complete training data or suffer from poor performance. To solve these problems, this paper proposes an iterative data availability optimization method for CPSs. Specifically, the proposed method first pre-processes the raw dataset by using a Singular Value Decomposition-based feature selection approach to identify crucial features and reduce computation overheads. It then makes an initial guess for missing values via a designed K-Means-based imputation approach. The appropriate initial estimation decreases the probability of the proposed method falling into the local optimum. Finally, the proposed method iteratively estimates missing data based on the Orthogonal Matching Pursuit algorithm. The proposed method optimizes data availability by accurately imputing missing values. Simulation results on two datasets demonstrate that compared to multiple state-of-the-art approaches, the proposed data availability optimization method can reduce imputation error by up to 99.65%.