Design and applications of soft sensors in polymer processing: A review

C Abeykoon - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In manufacturing industry, process monitoring is a key to observe the product quality,
operational health, safety, and also for achieving good/satisfactory process control …

Novel virtual sample generation using conditional GAN for develo** soft sensor with small data

QX Zhu, KR Hou, ZS Chen, ZS Gao, Y Xu… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2021 - Elsevier
In terms of data-driven soft sensing modeling of industrial processes, it is practically
necessary to collect sufficient process data. Unfortunately, sometimes only few samples are …

Quality variable prediction for nonlinear dynamic industrial processes based on temporal convolutional networks

X Yuan, S Qi, Y Wang, K Wang, C Yang… - IEEE Sensors …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft sensors have been extensively developed to estimate the difficult-to-measure quality
variables for real-time process monitoring and control. Process nonlinearities and dynamics …

Stacked enhanced auto-encoder for data-driven soft sensing of quality variable

X Yuan, S Qi, Y Wang - IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data-driven soft sensors have been widely used in industrial processes. Traditional soft
sensors are mostly shallow networks, which cannot easily describe the complicated process …

Soft sensors based on deep neural networks for applications in security and safety

MG **bilia, M Latino, Z Marinković… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Here, this article reports about the design of a soft sensor (SS) able to monitor the hazardous
gases in industrial plants. The SS is designed to estimate the gas concentrations by means …

Sampling-interval-aware LSTM for industrial process soft sensing of dynamic time sequences with irregular sampling measurements

X Yuan, L Li, K Wang, Y Wang - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In modern industrial processes, dynamics and nonlinearities are two main difficulties for soft
sensing of key quality variables. Thus, nonlinear dynamic models like long short-term …

A novel fault detection method based on the extraction of slow features for dynamic nonstationary processes

J Dong, Y Wang, K Peng - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The industrial process often shows nonstationary characteristic, such as time-varying mean
and variance, due to the unmeasured disturbances, adjustments of production plans …

A just-in-time fine-tuning framework for deep learning of SAE in adaptive data-driven modeling of time-varying industrial processes

Y Wu, D Liu, X Yuan, Y Wang - IEEE sensors journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In modern industrial processes, soft sensors have played increasingly important roles for
effective process monitoring, control and optimization. Deep learning has shown excellent …

Supervised nonlinear dynamic system for soft sensor application aided by variational auto-encoder

B Shen, Z Ge - IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dynamic data modeling has been attracting much attention from researchers and has been
introduced into the probabilistic latent variable model in the process industry. It is a huge …

Cooperative deep dynamic feature extraction and variable time-delay estimation for industrial quality prediction

L Yao, Z Ge - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a novel data-driven industrial quality predictor is proposed based on the
cooperative deep dynamic feature extraction and variable time-delay (VTD) estimation. A …