Fault Detection Based on Modified t-SNE

Dimension reduction is a general step to process high dimensional data for fault detection. Principal component analysis (PCA) divides data space into principal component space and residual space. But it is a global method without considering local geometric properties between data points. Concentrating on local structure of data, manifold learning can be introduced in dynamic and continuous process for fault detection. It can extract latent features of data, and also be viewed as nonlinear dimension reduction. In this paper, we propose a modified t-SNE algorithm for fault detection, simultaneously considering local structure and different scales of variables. Modified t-SNE converts Mahalanobis distance to the conditional probability for representing pairwise similarities instead of Euclidean distance, which satisfies the characteristics of industrial process data. A subspace can be obtained from high-dimension to low-dimension by applying modified t-SNE, which effectively preserves local structure. Simulation on Tennessee Eastman process (TEP) demonstrates the effectiveness of our proposed method.