Unsupervised streaming anomaly detection for instrumented infrastructure
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Holtegebaum, Henrique
Adams, Niall
Lau, Din-Houn
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) often involves instrumenting structures with distributed sensor networks. These networks typically provide high frequency data describing the spatio-temporal behaviour of the assets. A main objective of SHM is to reason about changes in structures’ behaviour using sensor data. We construct a streaming anomaly detection method for data from a railway bridge instrumented with a fibre-optic sensor network. The data exhibits trend over time, which may be partially attributable to environmental factors, calling for temporally adaptive estimation. Exploiting a latent structure present in the data motivates a quantity of interest for anomaly detection. This quantity is estimated sequentially and adaptively using a new formulation of streaming Principal Component Analysis. Anomaly detection for this quantity is then provided using Conformal Prediction. Like all streaming methods, the pro-posed method has free control parameters which are set using simulations based on bridge data. Experiments demonstrate that this method can operate at the sampling frequency of the data while providing accurate tracking of the target quantity. Further, the anomaly detection is able to detect train passage events. Finally the method reveals a previously unreported cyclic structure present in the data.
Date Issued
2021-09-01
Date Acceptance
2020-12-02
Citation
Annals of Applied Statistics, 2021, 15 (3), pp.1101-1125
ISSN
1932-6157
Publisher
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Start Page
1101
End Page
1125
Journal / Book Title
Annals of Applied Statistics
Volume
15
Issue
3
Copyright Statement
© 2021 Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Identifier
https://projecteuclid.org/journals/annals-of-applied-statistics/volume-15/issue-3/Unsupervised-streaming-anomaly-detection-for-instrumented-infrastructure/10.1214/20-AOAS1424.short
Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Statistics & Probability
Mathematics
Structural health monitoring
streaming PCA
stochastic gradient descent
adaptive estimation
conformal prediction
FIBER-OPTIC SENSORS
PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS
LARGEST EIGENVALUE
PCA
Statistics & Probability
0104 Statistics
1403 Econometrics
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2021-09-23