{"title":"CWPR: An optimized transformer-based model for construction worker pose estimation on construction robots","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.aei.2024.102894","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aei.2024.102894","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Estimating construction workers’ poses is critically important for recognizing unsafe behaviors, conducting ergonomic analyses, and assessing productivity. Recently, utilizing construction robots to capture RGB images for pose estimation offers flexible monitoring perspectives and timely interventions. However, existing multi-human pose estimation (MHPE) methods struggle to balance accuracy and speed, making them unsuitable for real-time applications on construction robots. This paper introduces the Construction Worker Pose Recognizer (CWPR), an optimized Transformer-based MHPE model tailored for construction robots. Specifically, CWPR utilizes a lightweight encoder equipped with a multi-scale feature fusion module to enhance operational speed. Then, an Intersection over Union (IoU)-aware query selection strategy is employed to provide high-quality initial queries for the hybrid decoder, significantly improving performance. Besides, a decoder denoising module is used to incorporate noisy ground truth into the decoder, mitigating sample imbalance and further improving accuracy. Additionally, the Construction Worker Pose and Action (CWPA) dataset is collected from 154 videos captured in real construction scenarios. The dataset is annotated for different tasks: a pose benchmark for MHPE and an action benchmark for action recognition. Experiments demonstrate that CWPR achieves top-level accuracy and the fastest inference speed, attaining 68.1 Average Precision (AP) with a processing time of 26 ms on the COCO test set and 76.2 AP with 21 ms on the CWPA pose benchmark. Moreover, when integrated with the action recognition method ST-GCN on construction robot hardware, CWPR achieves 78.7 AP and a processing time of 19 ms on the CWPA action benchmark, validating its effectiveness for practical deployment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50941,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Engineering Informatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142532237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A model-driven dual-derivation framework for quantitative fault detection in satellite power system","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.aei.2024.102896","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aei.2024.102896","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Satellite power system (SPS) fault detection is of great significance to ensure the safety and stability of satellites. On-orbit SPS can divide 11 near-mutation operating conditions (OCs) in 4 types of sunlight regions. Combined with limited fault samples and high-dimensional, coupled, and noisy telemetry data, the accuracy of data- or knowledge-driven SPS fault detection is poor. Therefore, this work first comprehensively considers the mechanism model of SPS and the quantitative analysis results of corresponding faults, based on which an SPS fault behavior model is configured. By combining specific driving and parameter updating methods, strong support is provided for on-orbit SPS digital twin and fault detection. Then, a model-driven dual-derivation quantitative fault detection framework that combines accuracy and robustness is proposed. To be specific, an adaptive integral residual (AIR) algorithm for constructing SPS OCs is developed, which combines telemetry data with twin data to determine fault states and obtain fault information. Using the tree-structured Parzen estimator (TPE), iteratively adjust the model’s failure modes and parameters to obtain simulated data for the current fault. By comparing it with fault telemetry data, determine whether the current failure modes and parameters meet the requirements of quantitative fault detection. Finally, a semi-physical experimental platform was established, and experimental results confirmed the framework’s capability to accurately differentiate between different levels of faults. Specifically, the quantitative detection accuracy for typical faults reached 100%. Additionally, we designed seven accuracy and robustness indicators, all of which yielded optimal results when compared with common methods. Through experimental analysis of search space optimization methods, the universality of optimization methods has been demonstrated.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50941,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Engineering Informatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142552955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SIMTSeg: A self-supervised multivariate time series segmentation method with periodic subspace projection and reverse diffusion for industrial process","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.aei.2024.102859","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aei.2024.102859","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Subsequences with varied regimes in the industrial multivariate time series (MTS) are closely associated with the dynamic status of the multi-phased industrial process. Time series segmentation (TSS) provides insights into the underlying behavior of industrial systems. However, the complexity of industrial data poses significant challenges to the conventional TSS methods. Motivated by this, a Self-supervised Industrial Multivariate Time-series Segmentation method (SIMTSeg) is presented in this work. An MTS folding module based on Ramanujan periodic subspace projection is first proposed, where the MTS is reshaped into the 3D feature map to realize the compact representation of the intricate data dependencies. Subsequently, a self-supervised module based on the encoder-decoder architecture is adopted to address the problem of deficient and task-specific annotations in industrial data. The folded feature map is denoised step by step following the reverse diffusion process, and finally turns into the segmentation mask without redundant details. The proposed SIMTSeg has been validated by a popular industrial benchmark, the Tennessee Eastman Process, and outperforms the unsupervised data-driven baselines in terms of various performance metrics. SIMTSeg has no prerequisite on the number of segmentation points or regime types, and is capable of giving more meaningful segmentation results that are in line with the high-level semantics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50941,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Engineering Informatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142417209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An adaptive melody search algorithm based on low-level heuristics for material feeding scheduling optimization in a hybrid kitting system","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.aei.2024.102855","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aei.2024.102855","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Facing highly diversified market demands in automotive industry, changing variants of components produced in mixed-model assembly lines (MMALs) has led to an increasing attention towards the material-feeding processes. Therefore, this paper originally proposes a novel type of material-feeding mode called hybrid kitting, leading to a better adaptation to MMALs. Since energy-saving and Just-in-time (JIT) principles are the two major concerns in production systems, a bi-objective mathematical model is established aiming to collaboratively minimize the multi-load automated guided vehicle (AGV) energy consumption as well as the kit conveyor depreciation cost in the hybrid kitting-based material-feeding system. Due to the non-deterministic polynomial hard (NP-hard) nature of the problem, a modified melody search-based hyper-heuristic algorithm (MMSA-HH) is proposed with seven low-level heuristic (LLH) operators. Based on the basic MSA, the melody composition rules are redesigned to enrich the diversity of solutions, adaptive adjustment of parameters is used to balance the local search and global search, and the fluctuated crowding distance calculation method is used in elite selection along with Pareto rank calculation. Computational experiment results reveal the effectiveness of the MMSA-HH when solving the problem. Finally, the managerial insights are given through comparing the impacts of kit container size, AGV type, and different kitting modes on the two objectives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50941,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Engineering Informatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142417123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving efficiency in structural optimization using RBFNN and MMA-Adam hybrid method","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.aei.2024.102869","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aei.2024.102869","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A significant challenge in traditional topology optimization (TO) methods lies in their low efficiency when handling large-scale design problems, primarily due to repetitive high-dimensional computations. Recently, the fusion of implicit neural representation with conventional structural topology optimization techniques has garnered considerable interest, owing to its various advantages, including the elimination of the need for filters. While this approach can yield design solutions comparable to those from traditional TO methods, it does not lead to clear efficiency gains; in some cases, the number of forward calculations is higher than in traditional methods. This study aims to enhance method efficiency by utilizing the radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) to implicitly represent the structure. Specifically, a set of trainable radial bases shapes and positions is employed to span the structure’s density field. Additionally, a hybrid approach is proposed, combining the method of moving asymptotes (MMA) with the Adam optimizer to update the neural network parameters. This updating technique accelerates convergence and enhances overall efficiency. Through adapting the bases via backpropagation and minimizing the loss function constructed based on traditional TO methods, our approach facilitates achieving design solutions with similar performance but with significantly fewer design variables and performance evaluations compared to traditional TO methods.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50941,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Engineering Informatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142442570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hydro-steel structure digital twins: Application in structural health monitoring and maintenance of large-scale reservoir","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.aei.2024.102922","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aei.2024.102922","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the context of frequent accidents during hydro-steel structures (HSS) operations due to harsh environments and extended service conditions, a novel approach is proposed to reduce the frequency of structural failure incidents and ensure safe and reliable operation. The approach begins with introducing a comprehensive DT modeling framework. Subsequently, detailed DT modeling and DT-based SHM methods are developed. Finally, a platform with perception, interaction, analysis, and decision-making for intelligent health monitoring and maintenance of HSS is constructed and validated in China’s large-scale reservoir project, Luhun Reservoir. The platform includes functions of condition monitoring, fault feature recognition, health status assessment, and maintenance strategies optimization. The integration of DT technology has led to significant improvements in health monitoring and maintenance quality, which includes data collection, model optimization, comprehensive evaluation, and decision-making. This approach has also demonstrated its effectiveness by reducing the operation and maintenance response time and enhancing the overall efficiency and reliability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50941,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Engineering Informatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142586519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mutual stacked autoencoder for unsupervised fault detection under complex multi-residual correlations","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.aei.2024.102837","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aei.2024.102837","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Due to the increasing complexity of variable relationships, fault detection has garnered significant attention, as it is crucial for ensuring industrial safety and engineering reliability. Traditional detection methods can be classified as twofold: global-based and local-based strategies, which respectively focus on mining macro- and micro-level information. However, our theoretical derivation and experiment results reveal that some spurious assumptions, such as local groups and their provided information are mutually independent are implicitly adhered to but are hardly satisfied in unsupervised fault detection under real industrial scenarios. Hence, this study introduces a novel mutual stacked autoencoder (M-SAE) which can be divided into three sub-networks: L-Net, R-Net, and M-Net. L-Net enriches local information learning through multiple local backbones by incorporating the unsupervised clustering algorithm. R-Net, employing a multi-scale attention mechanism, leverages complete local information for residual strength calculation and utilizes local features to capture residual information within the latent feature space. M-Net fuses the multi-scale local feature information to perform a reconstruction for each local. A multitask entropy-aided loss function is introduced to enrich local details, the global structure, and the residual associations. Finally, results on eleven datasets validate the high-performance of the proposed M-SAE and the ablation experiments demonstrate the efficacy of each component in M-SAE, confirming that this research effectively and accurately addresses multivariable industrial fault detection tasks, thereby enabling timely interventions that are crucial for maintaining operational safety in real-world scenarios.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50941,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Engineering Informatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142417050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Real-time identification of precursors in commercial aviation using multiple-instance learning","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.aei.2024.102856","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aei.2024.102856","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This research pioneers the application of precursor concepts to preemptively identify and prevent aviation safety incidents using Machine Learning (ML). Airlines and governing organizations, such as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the United States, have been trying to prevent safety incidents during routine operations. However, this task is challenging due to the lack of timestep-wise event annotation in flights and the complexity involved in the timely identification of incidents prior to their occurrence. To address these issues, we propose a real-time precursor identification methodology combining Multiple-Instance Learning (MIL) and feature-based Knowledge Distillation (KD) learning. Our two-stage approach, involving deep MIL for labeling and a KD-based model for real-time warnings, demonstrates state-of-the-art performance and a time delay of 2.99ms using a dataset of 23,549 real flights. Further experiments using t-distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) and occlusion method confirm our model’s transparency, enabling the generation of reliable quantitative precursor scores and facilitating reasoning about the causes of safety incidents at the parameter level. Additionally, statistical analysis of precursors reveals varying evolution times for different safety events, which indicates that pilots have at least 8 s to react after receiving a warning. In conclusion, our research provides a theoretical foundation and technical support for the next generation of online risk warning systems, enhancing flight safety and offering a pathway towards more intelligent and secure flight operations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50941,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Engineering Informatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142417049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Relational descriptors for retrieving design features in a B-rep model using the similarity-based retrieval approach","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.aei.2024.102877","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aei.2024.102877","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Design features refer to local shapes or regions within a part that perform specific functions such as fastening and force transmission. These design features must be identified from product design results to conduct design verification, manufacturing evaluation, and process planning. Design features are formed by combining various form features, which poses a challenge when using existing methods to retrieve individual features. Therefore, this study introduced a relational descriptor that describes the relational characteristics between topological elements to retrieve design features in boundary representation (B-rep) models. In addition, a method to retrieve design features by combining the relational descriptor with shape descriptors was proposed. Experiments were performed to identify specific design features to validate the proposed method. The experimental results successfully retrieved all the design features included in the B-rep model.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50941,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Engineering Informatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142442571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spectrum-guided GAN with density-directionality sampling: Diverse high-fidelity signal generation for fault diagnosis of rotating machinery","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.aei.2024.102821","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aei.2024.102821","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the field of fault diagnosis for rotating machinery, where available fault data are limited, numerous studies have employed a generative adversarial network (GAN) for data generation. However, the limited fault data for training GAN exacerbate GAN’s inherent training instability and mode collapse issues, which are induced by adversarial training. Moreover, the stochastic nature of random sampling for latent vectors sampling often results in low-fidelity and poor diversity generation, which negatively affects the fault diagnosis models. To address these issues, this paper presents two novel approaches: a spectrum-guided GAN (SGAN) and density-directionality sampling (DDS). SGAN mitigates training instability and mode collapse through combinatorial data utilization, adversarial spectral loss, and a tailored model structure. DDS ensures the high-fidelity and high-diversity of the generated data by selectively sampling the latent vectors through two steps: density-based filtering and directionality-based sampling in the feature space. Validation on both rotor and rolling element bearing datasets demonstrates that SGAN-DDS considerably improves classification results under the limited fault data. Furthermore, fidelity and diversity analyses are conducted to validate DDS, which increase the credibility of the proposed method; and offer advancement toward the application of deep-learning and GAN in industrial fields.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50941,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Engineering Informatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142529668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}